Serdar Yegulalp (@genjipress) (G+) is Editor-in-Chief of Ganriki.org. He has written about anime professionally as the Anime Guide for Anime.About.com, and as a contributor to Advanced Media Network, but has also been exploring the subject on his own since 1998.
The return of Kentarō Miura's violent fantasy epic to the little screen brings with it a fidelity to its strong characterization and powerful story -- and a renewed appreciation of all that was problematic the first time
Label anything 'steampunk' and the label tends to take over, but this fantasy from the late lamented Project Itoh is about more than just clockworks and longcoats.
Restored to its original psychedelic glory, this mad masterwork from Osamu Tezuka's studio goes from chic porn to feminist parable and everything in between.
Mamoru Hosoda's new film starts as a predictable story of irreconcilable opposites forced to work together, but becomes something more ambitious and challenging -- and worth sticking with despite its narrative bumps.
The first of the 'Aoi Bungaku' animated adaptations of classical Japanese literature is a keen, well-devised adaptation of Osamu Dazai's novel of downfall and decadence, No Longer Human.
With all the anime/manga projects out there to choose from, why does Hollywood insist on choosing the ones that give it the biggest cultural difficulties?
A pivotal inspiration for Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', the violent revenge tale Lady Snowblood brings us an anti-heroine who's as much of an outsider for being a woman as she is for being an assassin.
When the first film in this live-action trilogy of Rurouni Kenshin is among the very best adaptations yet of an manga/anime property, we can forgive any weaknesses in the whole.
The most pleasant surprise of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is not just how much of an improvement it is over the original film, but how much it also improves upon its source material.