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The Big Hurt: The YouTube anime mystery

What the hell is wrong with the Internet? Thorpe utterly fails to investigate . . .
YouTube is now so shockingly complete in its catalogue of illegally uploaded music that it's like a cheap jukebox that plays every song, ever.
By DAVID THORPE | December 02, 2008

Speed Racer

Another faulty family film
When Andy and Larry Wachowski pitched The Matrix to producer Joel Silver, they showed him the seminal anime Ghost in the Shell , claiming their ambition was to re-create it in live action.
By BRETT MICHEL | May 07, 2008

Cosplay chic

What to expect at Anime Boston this weekend
Why cosplay?
By MADDY MYERS | March 18, 2008

The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL | February 01, 2008

Dream girl

Satoshi Kon’s got your ticket
Do films hold the power of dreams?
By BRETT MICHEL | May 30, 2007

Cooling it, Japanese-style

Fun Fair
You don’t have to be in Fort Myers or Fenway to know that Japan is big business.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 28, 2007

Danger happened

Kaiju Big Battel at the Boston Anime Convention
Since the Kaiju Big Battel live spectacle is a series of matches determined by WWE-style shifting loyalties, and purposely-ridiculous subplots, you knew that some Kaiju-important character would kick the monster bucket. But who would it be?
By CAMILLE DODERO | May 27, 2006

Otaku you

The Five Japanese anime you should be watching now — and the five you will be watching in the future
In the 1980s, while Americans were worrying about losing dominance in the automobile industry, Japan was taking over the animation business.
By ROBERT BRICKEN | May 26, 2006

Magic moves online

But players stay hands-on
Four years after Wizards of the Coast announced the newest evolution of their internationally popular card game, Magic Online, various gaming world publications are buzzing anew with reviews of WoC’s newest release, Magic Online 3.0 .
By JOSEPH R. THOMPSON | May 10, 2006

Battlestar anime

Kurosawa’s classic becomes IFC’s Samurai 7 , plus more, but not better, Henry Rollins
Fans of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic The Seven Samurai , which spawned John Sturges’s 1960 The Magnificent Seven , are going to be surprised at what they find in Samurai 7 .
By BRETT MICHEL | March 30, 2006