Posts Tagged ‘anime’
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
It's very tempting to dismiss the Wachowski brothers' live-action Speed Racer film as a hopeless exercise in ridiculousness. But the problem is that both trailers released show a movie that's utterly drenched with style, as the auteur siblings appear to have held nothing back in trying to bring the ......
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Sega, the once heavyweight console maker now buried deep beneath the letters Wii, X, and PS, still pulls its weight in the arcade arena. Sega's Joypolis in Odaiba, Japan has an Initial D driving game based on the anime series that has the bodies of three actual cars mounted in front of a 90-inch scr......
Tags: anime, anime series, arcade, cars, driving game, game costs, initial d, InitialD, japan, joypolis, manga, Nippon, odaiba japan, rx 7, sega, tilt, toyota, toyota ae86, video games, VideoGames, wii, wrx
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Starting November 3, the National Gallery of Victoria will open an exhibit displaying the artwork of Tezuka Osamu, who is credited as being the "father of anime" and the "Walt Disney of Japan." The distinctive form of Japanese comic art and animation was invented by Tezuka, and he is the creator of ......
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