Archive for the category Anime

Ponyo and Hayao Miyazaki

Por kirai el 18 de September de 2008 en Anime

I watched Gake no use no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea), the new Ghilbi (Hayao Miyazaki) movie a while a go and I loved it. Yesterday I spent some time going through Ghibliworld, Ghibli and listening some podcasts. Here there are some extracts from interviews to Hayao Miyazaki (Director) and Toshio [...]

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Tachikoma

Por kirai el 08 de July de 2008 en Anime

Danny knows that I like Ghost in the Shell and he gave me the latest tachikoma figure made by GoodSmile. This is how a tachikoma looks like in the anime:

And this is how my tachikoma looks like, cool!

The legs are metallic and robust.

Tachikoma is a police robot with arachnid anatomy. It has four legs, but [...]

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If you could become an anime character

Por kirai el 21 de April de 2008 en Anime

Oricon Inc made a poll asking 900 Japanese people: if you could become an anime character who would you like to be? My choice would be Doraemon, because he is always happy and he always have a funny solution for all problems. Japanprobe presented the results using nice images like this:
1.- Goku from Dragon Ball

2.- [...]

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Doraemon ambassador

Por kirai el 25 de March de 2008 en Anime

Doraemon became the Japan’s anime ambassador. I wonder if “dorayakis” will become popular all around the world.

Found at Iht.
Related posts:

Doraemon’s real home
Doraemon’s film

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New Doreamon movie

Por kirai el 06 de March de 2008 en Anime

I new Doreamon movie is coming, it seems it will be also on USA and Europe cinemas. I love Doraemon, I specially enjoy reading the manga, it helps to bring my mind to an imaginative state and it’s also pretty easy to read in Japanese. Very recommendable to all of you who are starting with [...]

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Musculman DVD box

Por kirai el 06 de March de 2008 en Anime

I found this cool Musculman (キン肉マン) poster announcing the complete series DVD box for “only” 83.990 yen (450 euros).

Related entries:

Musculman figures
Musculman and Gremlins

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Learn how to pee and poo with Shimajiro

Por kirai el 13 de December de 2007 en Anime, JapaneseTV

Shimajiro is an anime character who is featured in many educative DVDs/merchandising/products for kids. My friend Sato explained me how having Shimajiro’s DVD complete collection helped him a lot to teach his two kids “lots of stuff”. It looks like Shimajiro is a great educator. One of the things you can learn with Shimajiro [...]

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Akira Toriyama interview

Por kirai el 07 de August de 2007 en Anime, Manga

Akira Toriyama wrote Dr.Slump and Dragon Ball. He is one of the most famous mangakas ever. He has millions of fans, but he is very reluctant to media, in fact his most recent “official” picture is from 10 years ago. No new pictures of him appear on newspapers or magazines, and he is rarely [...]

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Gundam - ガンダム

Por kirai el 28 de February de 2007 en Anime, Otaku

Gundam is one of the longest series of Japanese anime, it started in 1979 with “Mobile Suit Gundam” and it is still running with “Mobile Suit Gundam SEED”. The fantastic world of Gundam is huge, I’m not a Gundam fan but I can see series, films, OVAs, video games and figures every time I go [...]

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Nekobus

Por kirai el 27 de February de 2007 en Anime

Well known by everyone who has ever watched the movie “My neighbor Totoro”, the Nekobus is a cat-bus (”Neko” is cat in Japanese) that can travel very fast on any type of terrain. One of the most fabulous means of transport that you can imagine. There are many Nekobus fans around the world, and some [...]

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