Travel back to Ouran High School—and all the way to Wonderland—at a new collab café! The collaboration between Bisco Hatori's Ouran High School Host Club and Tree Village shops takes its inspiration from the anime episode "Haruhi in Wonderland." Starting later this month, visitors can enjoy elegant treats and pick up goods inspired by this fantastical take on the classic rom-com. Menu items include Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai's Bunny Omurice, Hitachiin Brothers' Twin Burgers, and Tamaki's Teatime Cake. There are also character-inspired teas, sodas and hot drinks. Orders will come with a coaster featuring art from the event: Related: Ouran High School Host Club Musical Stages Final Show in December Lots of goods will also be on sale at the venues, featuring both standard series art and Wonderland variants. Pick up pins, acrylic stands, stickers and more: Related: Wonderful Precure! Anime Joins Forces with Original Pretty Cure for Tasty...
- 5/3/2024
- by Kara Dennison
- Crunchyroll
Famous for its surreal genre-mashing and cross-gender casting, “Summer Vacation 1999”'s (1988) cultish elements recall the beginnings of shonen-ai (boy's love), one of many queercoded creative spaces that have been veiled for heterosexual enjoyment. Before our time of identity politics and labels, representations of gender and sexual fluidity wove itself into existence by sheer will and unquenchable desire. Today, in the restored catalogs of festivals such as Queer East, we look back in celebration, but also with a mixed sense of wonder, empathy and relief. In Shusuke Kaneko's futurist romantic-mystery, three boys reel from the return of their supposed-dead schoolmate to their countryside boarding school, igniting tensions and unrequited desires. “Summer Vacation 1999” breathes life into a depiction of queer spaces as innocent, fleeting and beautiful, forever scarred into memory.
Summer Vacation 1999 is screening at Queer East Festival
Under an ominous full moon, we witness the dramatic suicide of the well-loved,...
Summer Vacation 1999 is screening at Queer East Festival
Under an ominous full moon, we witness the dramatic suicide of the well-loved,...
- 4/19/2024
- by Renee Ng
- AsianMoviePulse
Pocket monsters go on a relaxing holiday in the charming-looking Pokémon Concierge, a stop-motion animated series coming to Netflix. Here’s a trailer and more details:
It can’t be easy being a Pokémon, what with all that fighting and living inside a tiny, magical ball. It makes sense, then, that those pocket monsters would want a holiday now and again – which is where Netflix’s Pokémon Concierge comes in.
“When Pokémon need a break, they head to a peaceful resort to relax, looked after by a team of Pokémon concierges,” reads the brief logline for Netflix’s upcoming stop-motion animated series.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Pokémon go on holiday – the trippy short film Pikachu’s Vacation accompanied the franchise’s first big-screen outing – imaginatively called Pokémon: The First Movie – all the way back in 1998. Seeing those whimsical monsters brought to life using stop-motion is,...
It can’t be easy being a Pokémon, what with all that fighting and living inside a tiny, magical ball. It makes sense, then, that those pocket monsters would want a holiday now and again – which is where Netflix’s Pokémon Concierge comes in.
“When Pokémon need a break, they head to a peaceful resort to relax, looked after by a team of Pokémon concierges,” reads the brief logline for Netflix’s upcoming stop-motion animated series.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Pokémon go on holiday – the trippy short film Pikachu’s Vacation accompanied the franchise’s first big-screen outing – imaginatively called Pokémon: The First Movie – all the way back in 1998. Seeing those whimsical monsters brought to life using stop-motion is,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
A24’s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy Ridley-starring The Marsh King’s Daughter from Roadside Attractions at over 1,000.
What Happens Later moved here from its original Oct. 16 perch, avoiding The Eras Tour opening crush. The rom-com debut of Meg Ryan after a long hiatus co-stars David Duchovny. Based on the play Shooting Star by Steven Dietz, the pic follows a chance encounter between two ex-lovers, Willa and Bill, who are snowed in at a regional airport and indefinitely delayed. See Deadline review.
The Marsh King’s Daughter stars Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn in an adaptation of a bestselling 2017 thriller by Karen Dionne,...
What Happens Later moved here from its original Oct. 16 perch, avoiding The Eras Tour opening crush. The rom-com debut of Meg Ryan after a long hiatus co-stars David Duchovny. Based on the play Shooting Star by Steven Dietz, the pic follows a chance encounter between two ex-lovers, Willa and Bill, who are snowed in at a regional airport and indefinitely delayed. See Deadline review.
The Marsh King’s Daughter stars Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn in an adaptation of a bestselling 2017 thriller by Karen Dionne,...
- 11/3/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Right when you thought that the Netflix adaptation of one of the most cult anime titles could not stoop any further, here comes the second season of the “Son of Ogre” arc to ruin the franchise even more. Even worse, the first part gave some hope about the finale of the season, only to drown any expectation in deep ridiculousness. Let us take things from the beginning though.
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As teased in the previous season, the authorities discover a man from the dinosaur era who has been frozen for millions of years. They defrost him, and it turns out that he is a tremendous fighter, who was able to fight the dinosaurs and win. In the pedantic, buffoonish style of humor that unfortunately characterizes the whole series, they name him Pickle, while expectedly, the rest of the renowned fighters of the series,...
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As teased in the previous season, the authorities discover a man from the dinosaur era who has been frozen for millions of years. They defrost him, and it turns out that he is a tremendous fighter, who was able to fight the dinosaurs and win. In the pedantic, buffoonish style of humor that unfortunately characterizes the whole series, they name him Pickle, while expectedly, the rest of the renowned fighters of the series,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Features the voices of: Marie Iitoyo, Oji Suzuka | Written and Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
If somebody asked me whether I liked anime, the answer would be a resounding yes! But, the truth is, outside of the amazing films of Studio Ghibli I haven’t watched a whole lot of anime. I’m not a complete novice but I would love to see many more anime movies and shows. And, with a title like The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, this seemed like a great movie to get on to that.
The tunnel here is the Urashima Tunnel, and the rumour that Kaoru Tono has heard is that the laws of time and space mean nothing there. If you can find it, and walk through it, you’ll find your heart’s desire there, in exchange for a year of your own life.
But what you don’t get...
If somebody asked me whether I liked anime, the answer would be a resounding yes! But, the truth is, outside of the amazing films of Studio Ghibli I haven’t watched a whole lot of anime. I’m not a complete novice but I would love to see many more anime movies and shows. And, with a title like The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, this seemed like a great movie to get on to that.
The tunnel here is the Urashima Tunnel, and the rumour that Kaoru Tono has heard is that the laws of time and space mean nothing there. If you can find it, and walk through it, you’ll find your heart’s desire there, in exchange for a year of your own life.
But what you don’t get...
- 7/28/2023
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Despite the fact that a number of them are interesting, Mamoru Oshii’s live action works never reached the level of his animated ones. And how could they, since the latter include some of the most iconic anime of all time, with the likes of “Ghost in the Shell”, “Angel’s Egg” and “Patlabor” among others. Now in his 70s, the Japanese filmmaker still insists on coming up with the occasional live-action, with “I Can’t Stop Biting You”, based on his own animated series, “Vlad Love”, being the latest one.
I Can’t Stop Biting You is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
In Kurusu Private High School, Maki, Niko, Kaoru, and Nami, four girls who are obsessed with blood donation, have started the Blood Donation Club, essentially distancing themselves from the whole of the school environment, with the exception of the school nurse, Ms Chihiro, who is their closest “associate”. One day,...
I Can’t Stop Biting You is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
In Kurusu Private High School, Maki, Niko, Kaoru, and Nami, four girls who are obsessed with blood donation, have started the Blood Donation Club, essentially distancing themselves from the whole of the school environment, with the exception of the school nurse, Ms Chihiro, who is their closest “associate”. One day,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre is a series that, in principle, arrives with the force that it is clearly a series “for adults”: A family contemplates a burning body. If you are expecting the usual animated psychedelic series, you won´t find it here where the macabre smiles of its characters look our way before the psychedelic credits.
A twisted collection of sinister portrayals.
Whether it is up to Ito standards is another thing: lots of people have complained, with some reason, that the series settles for being a (fruitless) attempt to portray the cosmos of the artista. It wants to do so, but does not manage to describe it in all its complexity and with all the twistedness of the characters.
At any rate, let the fans be the judges, animation fans that will have a lot to say about it (we are sure); and manga fans,...
A twisted collection of sinister portrayals.
Whether it is up to Ito standards is another thing: lots of people have complained, with some reason, that the series settles for being a (fruitless) attempt to portray the cosmos of the artista. It wants to do so, but does not manage to describe it in all its complexity and with all the twistedness of the characters.
At any rate, let the fans be the judges, animation fans that will have a lot to say about it (we are sure); and manga fans,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
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