Weekly round-up
Hello again friends and fellow bloggers! This busy month seems to have come to a height for us. There’s so much anime (and Star Wars!) to be watching amidst our [...]
Leiji Matsumoto
Captain Harlock creator Leiji Matsumoto recovers after suspected stroke
Many media sources out of Italy have reported that Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Galaxy Express 999 and Captain Harlock, had to be hospitalised during an event held in the city [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
