Anime/Cartoons

Gallery: Tempting Tea Time Tasties

September 5, 2015 Fernanda Machado

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If you say you’re into tea parties just for the tea, you’re lying. I know you’re lying, so don’t try to hide it. We all know you just want to stuff your face and pretend you’re classy while doing so. If you want to shake things up and not just serve the regular ol’ scones with […]

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Hayao Miyazaki Collection Coming To Blu-Ray

July 31, 2015 Diarmuid O'Neill

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Hayao Miyazaki is an iconoclast of film and has a legendary work ethic – he can’t stick retirement it seems! The famed director is currently working on his first film with computer generated animation, whether this marks the closure of the iconic style we associate with his films or not, you’d be wrong not to at […]

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Hayao Miyazaki Is Out Of Retirement

July 13, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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A titan in the world of Japanese animation, Hayao Miyazaki is out of retirement to take on a new project in 3D! The project in question will be a short movie (approximatly 10 minutes) and Miyazaki‘s, “first ever in a 3D CGformat.”, according to The Week. Meanwhile, Mark Schilling, Japan Corespondent for Variety, has reported that the short will star a, […]

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The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya’s Trailer Nominated For Golden Trailer Award

April 15, 2015 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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Last week saw the announcement of the nominated trailers for The Golden Trailer Awards and it was announced that the UK trailer for The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya has been nominated in the “Best Foreign Animation Family Trailer”. For anyone who is unaware of these awards they are the prestigious recognition for exceptional triumphs […]

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Review: The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya

April 3, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Based on the folktale known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is the latest release from the world renowned film makers at Studio Ghibli to have opened with reviews that are uniformly glowing. This one shall be no exception. For all those hoping for something different turn back […]

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Happy 74th Birthday Hayao Miyazaki

January 5, 2015 Declan Doody

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Legendary animator, director and founder of one of the most beloved film studios in the world, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki is celebrating his 74th birthday today. Miyazaki is reposnsible for work such as  Lupin III, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Ponyo. […]

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Hayao Miyazaki to receive Honorary Oscar

November 6, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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There is no man more deserving of an Academy Award than the genius that is Hayao Miyazaki (73). Miyazaki will accept his honorary academy award at the Governor’s Award ceremony in Los Angeles this Saturday. Having already declined to attend the 2003 Academy Awards when his film Spirited Away was nominated and won Best Animated […]

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Otaku Digest – Sanzoku no Musume Ronja, Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de and Girlfriend (Kari)

October 19, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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Hello one and all, another week down and that means another Otaku Digest. This weeks line up is Sanzoku no Musume Ronja, Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de and Girlfriend (Kari). Sanzoku no Musume Ronja First up this week is the anime I know I have been waiting for – Sanzoku no Musume Ronja […]

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Ghibli’s Princess Kaguya English Trailer released

September 23, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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This film is probably the most awaited animated film of Ghibli since “The Wind Rises” and the news of the break the studio would be taking. Monday saw the release of the English dub trailer for “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” by Isao Takahata (Nausicaa, Pom Poko) and Studio Ghibli. The film is based […]

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Studio Ghibli Rises – Part 2

August 22, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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In part one we left off after looking at the rise of Studio Ghibli and how it became the most influential studio in Japanese and worldwide animation. From their humble beginnings to topping all sorts of charts with their big screen releases. Studio Ghibli took the nineties by storm not they have to make their […]

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