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Bleeding Cool contributor Jason Borelli writes from his recent experience at Anime NYC: Anime NYC wrapped up its inaugural event at the Jacob Javits Center in New York by showcasing Fullmetal Alchemist. The live-action film is based on the popular manga by Hiromu Arakawa, which led to two anime series that aired on Cartoon Network […]

Bleeding Cool contributor Kaitlyn Booth sat down with DC Animated Films Producer/Writer Alan Burnett at New York Comic Con 2017. Alan Burnett has been involved with the DC Animated universe for years, and now he’s finally retiring. In fact, at time of writing, he’s been retired for two months, but he came out to New York […]

The release date for Blade Runner 2049 is getting closer, and that means the replicants are getting restless. Previously announced, an anime prequel of sorts to the continuation of the classic science-fiction noir tale has been released. Crunchyroll has the short anime film titled Blade Runner Black Out 2022, and it was just released this morning! You […]

Well that’s a nice present for a Thursday evening: Blade Runner 2049 apparently has has an animated short coming out which has been developed by Shinichirō Watanabe, the creative mind behind the anime classic Cowboy Bebop. Titled Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, it’s set to release on September 26th, ahead of the main feature film’s release on […]

It was back in 2013 that visionary anime director Hayao Miyazaki (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, Totoro) announced he would be retiring from feature film development. Shortly thereafter in 2014, Studio Ghibli followed suit and said it would take a “brief pause” after Miyazaki’s retirement. Now it seems that the lights have come […]

The last weekend of June/first few days of July means one thing to Los Angeles anime aficionados, Anime Expo (AX). The convention is large, one of the largest for anime on the west coast, pulling in close to 110,000 attendees annually. You may have seen some of the hellish visions of the lines outside the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] BLAME!, the bestselling manga has been adapted into an animated film and has today (as of May 20th) been released as a Netflix Original on the streaming network. Created by Tsutomu Nihei, the series had it’s original incarnation as a 10 volume manga which was published between 1998 and today. Directed by Hiroyuki Seshita and written […]

Following close on the heels of its Japanese premiere back on April 29th, Takashi Miike’s live-action adaptation of the classic manga Blade of the Immortal has been picked up for a North American release by Magnet Releasing. Magnet is the genre division of Magnolia Pictures, and has previously released such films as 13 Assassins and […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] For full disclosure, I have not in fact ever read or watched Ghost in the Shell in any of its forms. I would have had to have been a hermit not to pass through the later 80s and into the 90s without at least encountering it’s fans and getting at least a passing […]

Scarlett Johansson was a terrible choice to front the live action adaptation of favorite anime Ghost In The Shell.  I’m leading with that because it’s the main thought I had leaving the theater.  She was boring, one dimensional, and brought the scenes featuring her down when she spoke.  This is probably not entirely her fault, but […]