Tagged as: anime

Artists help Japan anime screenings at Toonseum

by Alan Gardner March 17, 2011

The Toonseum in Pittsburgh is sponsoring a fund-raiser for Artists Help Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Fund. Proceeds go to those afflicted by the massive quake and tsunami in Japan. On Saturday March 26th the museum will screen three anime movies from Japan’s greatest contemporary animators. The movies that will be shown that day are: Kiki’s […]

Tokyo city wants to ban morally offensive anime

by Alan Gardner January 21, 2011

This came news to me as I was under the impression that Japan loved their anime and manga regardless of moral biases. From The Comics Journal: Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s successful passage last month of legislation targeting manga, anime and video games for vaguely defined “morally offensive” imagery has been recorded in this column, as […]