New York Anime Fest moves to September for ’08
Based on focus groups and surveys, The second New York Anime Festival will be held this year September 12-14th, significantly earlier than last year's Dec. 7-9 time frame. According to the calendar at Comic...
Incredible movie promotion
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In Tokyo, a promotion for The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep set on Tokyo Bay is what we could call "pant-peeing good."
Understanding Otaku
Last weekend's New York Anime Festival was an interesting experience to say the least. It was only the second anime show I've ever attended (I went to Otakon in Baltimore a few years ago)...
Go out, Jerboa!
It's the real-life inspiration for Pikachu and almost as cute! The very rare and mysterious long-eared jerboa of the Gobi desert has been caught on film for the first time!:
The long-eared jerboa, a tiny...
NYAF Photo Parade Part 2
This may have been a con too far for The Beat...we're too tuckered to post anything, but we will run some photos by you, how does that sound? Although we apologize in advance because...
What you need to know about NYAF
We'll have our own detailed anthropological observations when we're not feeling under the weather. However here are facts and figures.
§ ICv2 interviews the showrunner John McGeary who estimates attendance at 15,000.
§ IGN...
New York Anime Festival — Day 1
The first day of the inaugural New York Anime Festival was a busy one. Crowds were good for a brand new show on a cold, snowy day, which was, in the end, competing against...
ICv2 Anime and Manga conference news and notes
The day began with a tediously long crosstown jaunt over to the Javits Center that took 30 minutes to go 10 blocks. WHY do taxi drivers INSIST on going crosstown on 31st St.? Even...
This weekend — NEW YORK ANIME FEST!
We're going to spend much of the next four days at the Javits center for the inaugural New York Anime Fest, kicking off today with Milton Griepp's ICv2 Conference on Anime and Manga. This...
Dear Lord! First Speed Racer pix!
USA Today via Superhero Hype
By the way, isn't it "The Wachowskis"...not "The Wachowski Brothers"?
AFRO SAMURAI now big in Japan
AFRO SAMURAI has made the rare reverse commute: the American-produced manag-adaptation anime in now popular in Japan:
Okazaki's strange tale initially failed to attract attention in Japan, where mainstream cartoons feature cute wide-eyed heroines or...
