Matt Altさんのイラストまとめ

On the other hand, the 1964 Olympics transformed manga and anime too. Their popularity added rocket fuel to an already popular genre, sports manga, and launched the スポ根 ("supo-kon," sports-spirit) comics boom of the late Sixties.

Perhaps most intriguing tidbit from Google's AR search announcement yesterday was the revelation that searches for "anime " currently outpace searches for "video games" globally, with "anime" hitting highest peak on record last month. https://t.co/VVf1QaGPNw

Today, the Anime New Century Declaration is remembered less as a PR event and more as a coming out: anime’s Woodstock. It was the moment anime “grew up,” daring to compete with mainstream literature and film on its own merits. (10/12

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Mickey, buddy, we have to have a chat about what you were doing in Japan during World War II.

Jonathan Clement’s “Anime: A History” is the exceedingly rare English-language book on anime that explores the medium from the perspective of how it was actually made in its home country, rather than how it was consumed abroad.
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A great interview with @tiger, the translator of the Kiki's Delivery Service novels upon which the Ghibli film was based. https://t.co/RTXV4OICL7

I just launched a Facebook page for news & updates about the upcoming Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World. If you're of the FB persuasion, please have a look! (Or is that like?) https://t.co/3rYFcLfGkC

Older fans, teens and young adults, weren’t ready to give up. They poured out their souls in impassioned missives to what was then the best method of connecting to other fans: the pages of anime magazines like Animec, The Anime, and OUT. (3/9)

And haishaku, which "makes you sad" when in your lungs.