Director Masakazu Ohara provides comments on each episode of the Mai-Hime TV series (except 12 and 15).
Via Anime Insider: Mai-Hime Episode Commentary (January 2007)
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Via Anime Insider: Michael Arias (January 2007)
Tekkon Kinkreet director Michael Arias talks about the people he’s worked with in Japan, praising Koji Morimoto in particular.
Via Anime Insider: Nabeshin (January 2007)
An interview with director Nabeshin, of Excel Saga fame, on Nerima Daikon Brothers.
Via Anime Insider: US Anime Distribution (January 2007)
An article on the changing contemporary methods US companies were using to distribute anime and manga.
Via Anime Insider: Crispin Freeman (January 2007)
Short interview with US VA Crispin Freeman.
Via Anime Insider: Hollywood Spitballing (December 2006)
Various directors are asked about hollywood movies they’d be interested to remake as anime.
It’s a good question which gets some good answers (some not even restricted to movies). There are a bunch of cases of classic Western film and TV inspiring anime and manga (The Fugitive->Monster obviously so, Easy Rider->Gad Guard less so), but it’s neat to get a window into some of the less-obvious influences on a number of entertainers. Western or not, stuff like Taniguchi Goro learning about ongoing subplots from E.R. and Tsutomu Mizushima being a fan of car chases is fun to discover.
Via Anime Insider: Hellsing Ultimate Staffers (December 2006)
A feature on Hellsing Ultimate that closes with interviews with author Kouta Hirano and screenwriter Hideyuki Kurata, as well as producers Yasuyuki Ueda and Young King Ours’ Yoshiyuki Fudetani.
Favorite part of the interview is Fudetani’s “[y]ou can do manga for us until the day you die” (Hirano’s Drifters is also very successful and also runs in YKO). Also touches on Hirano’s interest in England and favorite Gundam characters. Also interesting that Hideyuki Kurata has been a Young King Ours reader for the magazine’s entire run (“since volume one”); the magazine began serialization in 1993.
Via Anime Insider: Various Bits of News (December 2006)
An article listing off several bits of US-related anime/manga news.
Via Anime Insider: Brett Weaver (December 2006)
Short interview with US VA Brett Weaver.
Via Anime Insider: Japanese Copyright Laws (December 2006)
A short article mentioning debate around a possible extension of the protections afforded by Japanese copyright laws.
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