Browsing: Anime

A media preview for the new special exhibition “Panorama Box Exhibition” was held on July 7 at Ghibli Park in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture. During the press conference, Ghibli Park director Goro Miyazaki spoke about his father, 85 year old director Hayao Miyazaki, revealing that he is “still drawing new pictures” and continuing to work on…

The cyberpunk genre owes a huge debt to Masamune Shirow’s “Ghost in the Shell,” the essential manga from 1989 that inspired Rupert Sanders’ controversial Scarlett Johansson-starrer. Sanders’ 2017 film is just one adaptation in a longstanding sci-fi franchise, as a brand-new anime tackling Shirow’s source material recently dropped its first episode on Prime Video. This highly…

Last week, MonsterVine attended Anime Expo. Of course, the convention was filled with anime news breaking every other minute; there were a couple of other things for people to enjoy. Although the name might be a bit misleading, the convention featured a variety of games for people to play. Most of the games I got…

With couch co-op games so rare, it’s been lovely to see more debut at this year’s Summer Game Fest. It’s an even greater treat when they’ve got a unique art style that immerses you in a fun world. Publisher Kepler Interactive’s upcoming game Orbitals, launching Sept. 3, soars ahead of its contemporaries with a delightfully retro…

Anime or manga live-action adaptations are one of the riskiest subgenres out there. Because of the highly stylized, often quite over-the-top storytelling in anime, translating it to the “real world” can easily seem cheesy at best and embarrassing at worst. But when it’s done well, it can bring a whole new audience into the story.…