Leiji Matsumoto plans to link all his creations in new work
Leiji Matsumoto, the Galaxy Express 999 creator and Daft Punk collaborator/animator, announced a grand plan while guesting at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival last week. He [...]
Leiji Matsumoto
Review: Outlaw Star
From the Western World to the Land of the Rising Sun, Star Wars ushered in a collective cultural love of space fantasy. But it was arguably Leiji Matsumoto who popularised [...]
Leiji Matsumoto’s Gun Frontier manga rebooted
Leiji Matsumoto, the esteemed creator of Space Battleship Yamato, Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999, has had his 1972 manga series Gun [...]
Anime appropriation: hip hop, house and virtual bands
Anime and hip hop are unlikely bedfellows; both borrow from sundry sources, putting existing pieces together to form something fresh. Hip hop, as well as sampling music from [...]
