Category: Video & Trailers

John’s show and tell of his latest purchases from Mandarake.

The Cartoonist Kayfabe YouTube channel has published an hour-long face-to-face interview with animator Yutaka Minowa, veteran key animator, character designer of “Ninja Scroll” (1993), and animation director behind

Check out the handful of new items I purchased from Mandarake of Japan.

I placed a new order with Amazon Japan and also another order with Mandarake because Mandarake offered an exceptionally scarce manga key issue that I couldn’t resist purchasing.

I’m back again to share another selection of unique and novel anime items delivered from Japan. Highlights in this batch including the cameo first appearance of Piccolo and

For the curious, I share what items I most recently acquired from Mandarake of Japan. Apologies for me looking a bit trashy. I’m a lazy, aging hermit. It’s

Curious collectors and hardy anime historians may be interested to see what oddities I acquired in my latest purchase from Mandarake of Japan. This video is a relatively

On Saturday & Sunday, January 7-8, 2003, I’ll have a dealer table and present two anime panels at the St. Pete Comic Con in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.

On Saturday & Sunday, January 7-8, 2003, I’ll have a dealer table and present two anime panels at the St. Pete Comic Con in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.

Toho yesterday released its latest official Godzilla short film, Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex. The six-minute short has selectable English subtitles.

I’m amused by the degree of satiric, hyperbolic offense that YouTube anime critic Kenny Lauderdale felt about the 1990 OVA Kentoushi. In an ironic way, I’m somewhat grateful

See what new bargains and oddities I picked up in my recent purchase from Mandarake of Japan. The Comic Big Spirits magazine that I thought contained the first

French tattoo model & makeup artist Eloïse Jéglot has earned the Guinness World Record for the largest privately owned collection of Studio Ghibli memorabilia. Presently her collection numbers

Strictly because I’m fascinated by the medium of anime, every year I try my hardest to watch a sampling of every new anime title. By my count, excluding

In case anyone is interested in spending some time with me examining my latest purchases from Japan…