Gaijin Animation Appreciation Hour – Podcast – Episode 72 – AKIRA SLIDE

Join the Gaijin as they:
• Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, E3 may have finally given up the ghost, awesome Jackie Chan collection featuring City Hunter, Discotek brining the heat, Star Wars Visions Wallace and Gromit edition, a Kickstarter failure, another End of Evangelion, WOTC is dragging Hasbro into the abyss, some ridiculous Spanish luxury anime goods, Japan decides they do indeed need tourist money, Shinichiro Watanabe has no chill for NETFLIX Cowboy Bebop, and anime VAs acting like brain damaged children again

• Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

• Review the middle four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE

• Review Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic movie, based on his own manga, and one of the holy trinity of hand drawn animation, 1988’s AKIRA

Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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