David Heredia (Int.)
@animeitantei.bsky.social
EN/ES/日本語OK・Translator, anime and manga researcher. Writting books with Diábolo Ediciones and mystery games on @1564studio.bsky.social. (Main account: @ounomachi.bsky.social | Profile pic by Keiichi Tanaka).
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Japan had some seriously huge viral hit songs in 2025, but there's always the chance some slipped under your radar. Catch up or recap just ahead of the New Year with our crash course on viral hits of the year!
An Iijyan year indeed: A crash course in the viral Japanese hits of 2025 | scrmbl
The difference between a “viral hit” and a good ol’ fashioned music...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Japan had some seriously huge viral hit songs in 2025, but there's always the chance some slipped under your radar. Catch up or recap just ahead of the New Year with our crash course on viral hits of the year!
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Takeshi Koike made a name for himself through his particular style as an action animator.
For over a decade, he has been tasked with reimagining Monkey Punch’s iconic character: Lupin III
Learn more about his relationship with the series in our interview!
youtu.be/KK3-6oOCZN8
For over a decade, he has been tasked with reimagining Monkey Punch’s iconic character: Lupin III
Learn more about his relationship with the series in our interview!
youtu.be/KK3-6oOCZN8
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Takeshi Koike made a name for himself through his particular style as an action animator.
For over a decade, he has been tasked with reimagining Monkey Punch’s iconic character: Lupin III
Learn more about his relationship with the series in our interview!
youtu.be/KK3-6oOCZN8
For over a decade, he has been tasked with reimagining Monkey Punch’s iconic character: Lupin III
Learn more about his relationship with the series in our interview!
youtu.be/KK3-6oOCZN8
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When a director with an idiosyncratic style and one of anime’s most popular characters meet:
Learn more about the Lupin the IIIrd movies in our upcoming interview with Takeshi Koike.
Available on the ANIME MIND PROBE YouTube channel on December 26th!
Learn more about the Lupin the IIIrd movies in our upcoming interview with Takeshi Koike.
Available on the ANIME MIND PROBE YouTube channel on December 26th!
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
When a director with an idiosyncratic style and one of anime’s most popular characters meet:
Learn more about the Lupin the IIIrd movies in our upcoming interview with Takeshi Koike.
Available on the ANIME MIND PROBE YouTube channel on December 26th!
Learn more about the Lupin the IIIrd movies in our upcoming interview with Takeshi Koike.
Available on the ANIME MIND PROBE YouTube channel on December 26th!
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New release! The Orphan Fansubs team have put out an anime film previously only available on VHS, IT RAINED FIRE (1988), scanned by us from a 16mm print. It's based on the gut-wrenching tale of the Fukuoka firebombing in 1945. nyaa.si/view/2057163
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
New release! The Orphan Fansubs team have put out an anime film previously only available on VHS, IT RAINED FIRE (1988), scanned by us from a 16mm print. It's based on the gut-wrenching tale of the Fukuoka firebombing in 1945. nyaa.si/view/2057163
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The 70s Super Robot That Didn’t Have an Anime: Gattai Robot Atlanger
Introduction When talking about the mecha genre, omitting the merchandise component often tells an incomplete story. Most shows are historically also toy commercials, and sometimes decisions can be traced to bottom lines more…
Introduction When talking about the mecha genre, omitting the merchandise component often tells an incomplete story. Most shows are historically also toy commercials, and sometimes decisions can be traced to bottom lines more…
The 70s Super Robot That Didn’t Have an Anime: Gattai Robot Atlanger
Introduction When talking about the mecha genre, omitting the merchandise component often tells an incomplete story. Most shows are historically also toy commercials, and sometimes decisions can be traced to bottom lines more than creative choices by a director or writer. But what about a giant robot that, for the most part, was only ever a toy? That’s the story of Gattai Robot Atlanger, a robot from the 1970s that didn’t have a cool and dramatic TV series to excite the imagination and endear itself to an audience, yet still managed to find success by looking cool, being affordable on a kid’s allowance, and having lots of playability.
ogiuemaniax.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The 70s Super Robot That Didn’t Have an Anime: Gattai Robot Atlanger
Introduction When talking about the mecha genre, omitting the merchandise component often tells an incomplete story. Most shows are historically also toy commercials, and sometimes decisions can be traced to bottom lines more…
Introduction When talking about the mecha genre, omitting the merchandise component often tells an incomplete story. Most shows are historically also toy commercials, and sometimes decisions can be traced to bottom lines more…
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Sometimes when researching, archiving, and scanning we come across important artifacts of history, nuggets of information that reshape the way we think about the history of games and how they relate to us.
And other times, we find pictures of Warren Spector in a sumo wrestler costume.
And other times, we find pictures of Warren Spector in a sumo wrestler costume.
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Sometimes when researching, archiving, and scanning we come across important artifacts of history, nuggets of information that reshape the way we think about the history of games and how they relate to us.
And other times, we find pictures of Warren Spector in a sumo wrestler costume.
And other times, we find pictures of Warren Spector in a sumo wrestler costume.
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The final Anime Business of the year, with @glider.bsky.social, goes live in 15 minutes!
The Anime Business - Helen McCarthy on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All
YouTube video by AnimEigo
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The final Anime Business of the year, with @glider.bsky.social, goes live in 15 minutes!
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Warner Bros. has spent the last 20 years investing in anime, including leading production committees for "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" and "Record of Ragnarok", but a possible sale of the company could impact its expansive anime portfolio.
Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.
Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.
Dozens of anime at stake in Warner Bros. sale
Plus: Sony to issue stablecoins for anime, game payments; Japanese prime minister appeals to Saudi investors; Kadokawa dominates annual light novel rankings; and more
news.animenomics.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Warner Bros. has spent the last 20 years investing in anime, including leading production committees for "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" and "Record of Ragnarok", but a possible sale of the company could impact its expansive anime portfolio.
Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.
Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.
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Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best films of this century. A key reason is that it portrays Tokyo with an almost overwhelming level of care and detail.
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon's Impossibly Real Tokyo
Plus: news and a music video.
animationobsessive.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best films of this century. A key reason is that it portrays Tokyo with an almost overwhelming level of care and detail.
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
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"Procession Spin", a 7-meter-wide ceramic relief created by Katsuhiro Otomo (now on display at Ginza Station).
Depicting art forms from the Jomon period to the present day.
Crafted by 7 artisans over a period of 2 years.
(feat. Kaneda on his bike)
Depicting art forms from the Jomon period to the present day.
Crafted by 7 artisans over a period of 2 years.
(feat. Kaneda on his bike)
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"Procession Spin", a 7-meter-wide ceramic relief created by Katsuhiro Otomo (now on display at Ginza Station).
Depicting art forms from the Jomon period to the present day.
Crafted by 7 artisans over a period of 2 years.
(feat. Kaneda on his bike)
Depicting art forms from the Jomon period to the present day.
Crafted by 7 artisans over a period of 2 years.
(feat. Kaneda on his bike)
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Happy to announce!
The Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies now includes full tables of contents for every essay collection on Japanese comics and Japanese animation that has been published in English - more than 20 just in the last ten years!
www.animemangastudies.com/database/bro...
The Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies now includes full tables of contents for every essay collection on Japanese comics and Japanese animation that has been published in English - more than 20 just in the last ten years!
www.animemangastudies.com/database/bro...
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy to announce!
The Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies now includes full tables of contents for every essay collection on Japanese comics and Japanese animation that has been published in English - more than 20 just in the last ten years!
www.animemangastudies.com/database/bro...
The Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies now includes full tables of contents for every essay collection on Japanese comics and Japanese animation that has been published in English - more than 20 just in the last ten years!
www.animemangastudies.com/database/bro...
Regarding today's news about Gainax, I can only think about how painful this process must have been for Anno after so many years of constant disappointments. It's not about losing the studio that saw him grow as a director, it's about losing the friends who walked alongside him on that journey.
「株式会社ガイナックス」について
2025年12月10日の官報掲載にありますように、アニメーション制作スタジオだった「株式会社ガイナックス」の破産整理が終わり、法人として消滅し、その42年弱の歴史を終えました。 創設期から20年以上籍を置き、今日まで株主として関わっていたものとして誠に残念な最後ですが、静かに受け止めています。 まず、2019年、当時の代表取締役社長巻智博氏の逮捕を受け、弊社と共にガイナックス社の再建、後に整...
www.khara.co.jp
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Regarding today's news about Gainax, I can only think about how painful this process must have been for Anno after so many years of constant disappointments. It's not about losing the studio that saw him grow as a director, it's about losing the friends who walked alongside him on that journey.
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With a bit of sleuthing help from @austin.karageko.com I put together a short article about the Five Star Stories original video that General Products announced but never released. Garage kits. Music by Mamoru Nagano. Animation by Hideaki Anno. What could have been?
www.zimmerit.moe/five-star-st...
www.zimmerit.moe/five-star-st...
The Five Star Stories Original Video That Never Was
In early 1988 General Products began advertising a Five Star Stories original video that would feature animation by Hideaki Anno and direct involvement from the manga’s creator, Mamoru Nagano…
www.zimmerit.moe
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
With a bit of sleuthing help from @austin.karageko.com I put together a short article about the Five Star Stories original video that General Products announced but never released. Garage kits. Music by Mamoru Nagano. Animation by Hideaki Anno. What could have been?
www.zimmerit.moe/five-star-st...
www.zimmerit.moe/five-star-st...
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In something different, and somewhat wild to say:
I interviewed Shoji Kawamori! We discussed his new film as well as the fact we all can’t get rid of our damn phones, with that over-reliance a core aspect of his all-new film, Labyrinth, hitting Japanese cinemas on New Years Day
I interviewed Shoji Kawamori! We discussed his new film as well as the fact we all can’t get rid of our damn phones, with that over-reliance a core aspect of his all-new film, Labyrinth, hitting Japanese cinemas on New Years Day
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In something different, and somewhat wild to say:
I interviewed Shoji Kawamori! We discussed his new film as well as the fact we all can’t get rid of our damn phones, with that over-reliance a core aspect of his all-new film, Labyrinth, hitting Japanese cinemas on New Years Day
I interviewed Shoji Kawamori! We discussed his new film as well as the fact we all can’t get rid of our damn phones, with that over-reliance a core aspect of his all-new film, Labyrinth, hitting Japanese cinemas on New Years Day
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Very fun piece of art by Takehisa Kishi poking fun at the idea of Robotech combining Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada for the US.
From a piece on robot anime being exported to the US, published in the December 1985 issue of Animage.
From a piece on robot anime being exported to the US, published in the December 1985 issue of Animage.
July 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Very fun piece of art by Takehisa Kishi poking fun at the idea of Robotech combining Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada for the US.
From a piece on robot anime being exported to the US, published in the December 1985 issue of Animage.
From a piece on robot anime being exported to the US, published in the December 1985 issue of Animage.
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The internet is a wonderful place. On the very day that the Famicom version of Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken turns 40, I just found out that there is an actual recording of the radio program in which Takeshi Kitano revealed the identity of the killer to all of Japan. youtu.be/CS2y3o27YUs
ビートたけしのオールナイトニッポン / スタジオにファミコンを持ち込んで「ポートピア連続殺人事件」をプレイ (1986年1月30日収録)
YouTube video by イライラTV
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The internet is a wonderful place. On the very day that the Famicom version of Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken turns 40, I just found out that there is an actual recording of the radio program in which Takeshi Kitano revealed the identity of the killer to all of Japan. youtu.be/CS2y3o27YUs
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Frederik L. Schodt Talks With Anime Herald: Seth Burn talks with legendary translator and industry icon Frederik L. Schodt. They discuss his career, his experiences with Osamu Tezuka, the changing manga landscape, and more.
#manga #history #interview
#manga #history #interview
Frederik L. Schodt Talks With Anime Herald
"I just wanted people to be able to appreciate in the United States, because I thought it was such a unique popular culture, sort of a further development of the grammar that was developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century, with comic newspapers, comic strips."
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November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Frederik L. Schodt Talks With Anime Herald: Seth Burn talks with legendary translator and industry icon Frederik L. Schodt. They discuss his career, his experiences with Osamu Tezuka, the changing manga landscape, and more.
#manga #history #interview
#manga #history #interview
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New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
In Translation | "You Dropped Your Shadow" by Masako Yashiro
Yashiro? more like Yass, She Hero (i respect women you see)
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
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Kantai Collection makes a lot more sense when you learn Japan has been drawing battleship girls since the 1930s. Pictured: The battlecruiser turned battleship Haruna (1937), the Mogami class cruiser "Kumano" (1937), & the Japanese Battleship Hyuuga.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Kantai Collection makes a lot more sense when you learn Japan has been drawing battleship girls since the 1930s. Pictured: The battlecruiser turned battleship Haruna (1937), the Mogami class cruiser "Kumano" (1937), & the Japanese Battleship Hyuuga.
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Over lunch today, I had the pleasure of moderating a short Q&A after this fascinating, insightful lecture on the life and work of Yasuo Ohtsuka by Prof. Seiji Kanoh.
Might watch some Lupin III to celebrate.
Might watch some Lupin III to celebrate.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Over lunch today, I had the pleasure of moderating a short Q&A after this fascinating, insightful lecture on the life and work of Yasuo Ohtsuka by Prof. Seiji Kanoh.
Might watch some Lupin III to celebrate.
Might watch some Lupin III to celebrate.
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Star of the Giants largely gets ignored in US-based manga historiography, but it was huge in the 1960s and is credited with helping achieve a circulation surpassing one million copies for a magazine consisting primarily of comics for the first time.
Speaking of baseball... here's an interesting bit in the new Eike Exner book: apparently STAR OF THE GIANTS was the first manga to really establish the now-ubiquitous use of full bleeds in manga.
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Star of the Giants largely gets ignored in US-based manga historiography, but it was huge in the 1960s and is credited with helping achieve a circulation surpassing one million copies for a magazine consisting primarily of comics for the first time.
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To note, folks: This was an accurate and correct use of the term "lost media."
Home video recording tech did not exist until 1976. Broadcast masters were thought to be destroyed. No recording would have existed, period. *THAT* is lost media.
Home video recording tech did not exist until 1976. Broadcast masters were thought to be destroyed. No recording would have existed, period. *THAT* is lost media.
The "Golgo 13" anime (from 1971) will be released on Blu-ray in Japan.
This series was considered lost until the masters were found two years ago.
natalie.mu/comic/news/6...
This series was considered lost until the masters were found two years ago.
natalie.mu/comic/news/6...
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To note, folks: This was an accurate and correct use of the term "lost media."
Home video recording tech did not exist until 1976. Broadcast masters were thought to be destroyed. No recording would have existed, period. *THAT* is lost media.
Home video recording tech did not exist until 1976. Broadcast masters were thought to be destroyed. No recording would have existed, period. *THAT* is lost media.
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Hajime Sato’s Golden Bat (1966) is fucking incredible. A missing link between Warning from Space (1956) and Ishinomori’s Kamen Rider, Japan’s own crack at Fantômas as a time-looped Atlantean mummy who rises from slumber to cackle and throw violent hands with aliens, mutants, and alien mutants.
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hajime Sato’s Golden Bat (1966) is fucking incredible. A missing link between Warning from Space (1956) and Ishinomori’s Kamen Rider, Japan’s own crack at Fantômas as a time-looped Atlantean mummy who rises from slumber to cackle and throw violent hands with aliens, mutants, and alien mutants.
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We've got a really fun article covering Noriko Hidaka's 1993 wedding, including the other seiyuu who attended and lots of lovely photos. A HUGE thank you to ShrineMaidenNet for sharing the scans with us for translation.
www.furinkan.com/features/int...
www.furinkan.com/features/int...
Rumic World - Popular Voice Actors Catch Up!! Noriko Hidaka's Magazine Wedding Celebration Party
A look at the wedding reception of voice actress Noriko Hidaka.
www.furinkan.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We've got a really fun article covering Noriko Hidaka's 1993 wedding, including the other seiyuu who attended and lots of lovely photos. A HUGE thank you to ShrineMaidenNet for sharing the scans with us for translation.
www.furinkan.com/features/int...
www.furinkan.com/features/int...