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Anime Herald Fiscal Report for Year Ending 3/31/2023
IntroductionAs part of our efforts to maintain full transparency within our operation, it has been decided that, every year, the chief officer of Anime Herald, LLC must compile an annual within 8 weeks of the end of the fiscal year. This document will serve to outline our finances, as well as our performance over the c...
Anime Boston 2023: The Cosplay Cometh
Note: Apologies for the weird format on this. Patreon no longer allows galleries after their most recent updates.Author: Samantha FerreiraEditor: Samantha FerreiraIt seems that each Anime Boston finds new ways to add to the electric hum that emanates from fans’ excitement, as attendees embark upon the spacious halls ...
Interview With Artist Kehasuk
Note: Due to publisher requirements, we will be publishing this on the main Anime Herald site on May 8. We apologize for the inconvenience.Interviewer: Seth BurnInterviewee: KehasukDate: 5/1/2023Kehasuk: Forgive me if I’m a little out of it. I haven’t eaten.Anime Herald: You don’t get to sleep or eat much, it’s...
Anime Boston 2023: Bad Anime, Bad!
Author: Samantha FerreiraEditor: Samantha FerreiraHost: Tinfoil Pyramid HatsDate: 4/8/2023Over the past fourteen years, Brian T. Price’s Bad Anime, Bad! panel has become a signature event at Anime Boston. Part performance piece and part showcase of everything wrong with the anime medium, the panel has grown to become...
Interview With Voltes V Legacy Director Mark A. Reyes
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of this article, the final piece will go live on the main Anime Herald site on 5/6/2023. We apologize for the inconvenience.Interview date: 4/30/2023Interviewer: Samantha FerreiraInterview Format: ZoomA huge thanks to Patreon backer NegiKitsu for requesting this, and helping us to...
Anime Boston 2023: A Brief History of Yokai
Author: Samantha FerreiraEditor: Samantha FerreiraHost: Zack DavissonTime: 4/8/2023 at 2:00PMWhen discussing the topic of Japanese entertainment, it’s difficult to avoid mentioning yokai. From the turtle-like kappa to the multi-tailed kitsune, these supernatural beings have intertwined themselves into the country’s...
Anime Boston 2023: Why We Love Time Loops
Author: Samantha FerreiraEditor: Samantha FerreiraDate: 4/7/2023Host: DapplemiiIn our uncertain world, it’s tempting to wonder how we would approach milestones in our life if we had the chance to do things over again. The prospect of having another chance to ask a crush out, retry a job interview, or avoid making a l...
Anime Boston 2023: The Legacy of Leiji Matsumoto
Author: Samantha FerreiraEditor: Samantha FerreiraHosts: Zack Davisson, Helen McCarthy, Neil Nadelman, Darius WashingtonOn February 13, 2023, the skies grew dark, as the 999 set off on its final voyage. Influential manga author Leiji Matsumoto embarked on his final journey to the sea of stars, after passing away due to...
Anime Boston 2023: Sniffing Glue: The Punk Energy of Early British Anime Fanzines
Author: Samantha Ferreira Editor: Samantha FerreiraDate: 4/7/2023Host: Helen McCarthyIn the earliest days of anime fandom, before Robotech, and even Star Blazers, anime fandom was defined by a wild, punk energy that was equal parts youthful brashness and calculated hustle. While The Clash held court at the Rainbow The...
Anime Boston 2023 - Introduction: An All-New Part of History
Author: Samantha FerreiraEditor: Samantha FerreiraOn April 18, 2003, anime fans from across New England flocked to Boston's Park Plaza Hotel to partake in a celebration of all things anime. Anime Boston 2003, the first major anime convention to hit the area since 2001's Mikkakan, proudly invited its attendees t...
Katsura Sunshine: A Rakugo Master… except they don’t have those in Osaka… or Canada
Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraWhittyMoon: Are you of Japanese descent? If not, how did you get into rakugo?Katsura Sunshine: To my knowledge I’m not of Japanese descent. I fell in love with Japan fairly quicky, so some people have said maybe in a former life.I went to Japan because I was writing musicals....
Sofia Warren: Radical New Yorker Cartoonist
Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraSofia Warren, the author of Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, was kind enough to sit down with us at New York Comic ConAnime Herald: Let’s start with your origin story.Sofia Warren: I was born in Rhode Island. My parents are both artists. They met at RISD (Rhode Isla...
Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 is the Perfect Sequel
Author: Adam Wescott (Wendeego)Editor: Madeline BlondeauThe premise of Birdy the Mighty is simple. Tsutomu Senkawa is a studious high school student from Earth. Birdy is a brash, super-strong alien cop. Forced by circumstance to share the same body, they fight crime. Pretty straightforward, right? Exposition fripperies...
Reincarnated as a Sword: Shinji Ishihira and Yōsuke Shimada
Anime Herald: Mr Ishihira, you’ve gone on the record stating that when you decide what titles to direct, you consider the content, and not the genre. What was it about “Reincarnated as a Sword” that attracted you to the project?Shinji Ishihira: Usually when I get an offer, I get an offer with the idea. They’ll ...
Looking Back on Newtype USA 15 Years Later
Author: Red BardEditor: Alex Henderson“Oh no! We’ve…we’ve just received word that this is the last issue of Newtype USA magazine. Good heavens!”, reads a small line of text tucked quietly to the bottom of the final page of Newtype USA’s February 2008 issue. “There was so much anime left to watch, so much ...
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[Alexandros] at Anime NYC
Note: Due to requirements from an outside party, this will go live on the main Anime Herald site this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience.'Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraModerator: Having just finished performing in front of a large crowd at Anime NYC, many of whom are Gundam fans, how did it com...
Acky Bright at Anime NYC
Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraAnime Herald: You started as a graffiti artist. Did you ever imagine you’d become a professional artist with art books and more?Acky Bright: I couldn’t imagine. My artworks going all over the world was unimaginable to me back then.Anime Herald: How did you move from doing g...
Shūkō Murase: Gundam with Style
Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraUnknown Outlet: It’s the 20th anniversary of your directorial debut with Witch Hunter Robin. What were some of your favorite experiences working on that project and how do you feel you have grown as a director in the twenty years since then?Shūkō Murase: Actually, it’s in...
Love is War: An Interview with Aoi Koga, Tatsuya Ishikawa, and Tatsuya Ishikawa
Interviewer: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraMyAnimeList: How are you feeling about the preview screening of “[Kaguya-sama: ] Love is War: First Kiss” later today?Aoi Koga: I’m happy! (Laughs)I’m very excited to watch it myself. Being able to watch it with everyone adds to the excitement.Tatsuya Ishikawa: I d...
The Editor's Desk: 2/16/2023
Happy Thursday, everybody!The past few weeks have been busy, for sure. Most important, though, is that the Anime Herald team got a bit bigger this week! On Monday, we welcomed Cy as a new member of our editing team. We're all super excited to have them aboard as we continue our journey to explore the anime landscap...
Genocyber: Anime’s Almost Classic Cyberpunk Horror, Ruined By A Critical Flaw
Author: Anthony GramugliaEditor: Madeline BlondeauContent Warning: Contains imagery that includes graphic violence, gore, and body horror.Old-school anime fans know just how weird the medium can get. There are a massive number of older titles you’d find at Suncoast or Blockbuster that were noteworthy only for how sho...
Lupin III, Bega's Battle, and the Birth of Anime FMVs
Author: Madeline BlondeauEditor: Samantha FerreiraThank you to Mark McDonald for the Patron article request!In 1983, Lupin The Third made his North American TV debut on WTBS.Well, not quite – the rascally thief wouldn’t get his crack at home video success in the US for a few more years. But viewers of the short-liv...
Muppets Mayhem at New York Comic Con
Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraSaara Chaudry & Anders HolmUnknown Outlet: Can you break your characters and what they want from the band?Anders Holm: Yes.Saara Chaudry: I play Hannah. Hannah is Nora's younger sister. She's framed as her successful younger sister who Nora has had to take care of her w...
The Editor's Desk: 12/31/2022 - Meet the New Year, Same as the Old Year
Happy New Year's Eve, everybody! I hope your holiday season has been wonderful, and that you've been weathering these chilly winter months with great anime.Personally, I've been particularly enthralled by Akiba Maid War and Bocchi the Rock! The former is a fantastic action-drama that is equal parts parody, ...
The Editor's Desk, 12/10/2022 - *Wipes Dust Off, Whistles*
Happy holidays, everyone!It's been a minute since I've done one of these. I'm genuinely sorry about the radio silence, as I was hoping to have these pieces go out every one or two weeks. That... kind of didn't happen, and I apologize.On a more positive note, I'm pleased to announce that this year ha...
Fantastically Bizarre - The Filmography Of Keiichi Tanaami
Author: Borealis CappsEditor: Lydia RiversContent Warning: Some of the sources linked to in this article may lead to art that is considered Not Safe For Work by common North American standards, and some of the videos you may find of Tanaami’s work include strobes, flashes, audio played backwards, and other neurologic...
Interview With Yoichi Nishikawa
Interviewer: Seth BurnAnime Herald: What is your origin story as an artist? Were you always interested in art when you were a child, or was this something that developed later?Yoichi Nishikawa: My maternal grandfather is an oil painter, and my uncle is an art dealer.So from a young age, I grew up in an artistic environ...
Ramayana: The Anime Film that Changed Indian Animation Forever
Author: Aniket Singh ChauhanIndia isn’t known for great animation – and rightly so. The last major animation blockbuster was released way back in 2014[1], with the box office in India itself dominated by live-action films. But way back in the 1990s – amidst the country’s great economic reforms – a film on Ind...
Examining Punk Fashion in NANA
Author:Kat SchmidtWhen scrolling through TikTok recently, I noticed that among the fashion videos there was a subsection of NANA Y2K fashion and alt-fashion posts. They laud Nana Osaki as an icon of late nineties and Y2K fashion, and they are absolutely correct. After all, fashion tends to operate within twenty-year cy...
A Conversation With Lauren Landa
Interviewer: Samantha FerreiraAnime Herald: What was your experience in building out the character for Michiru [Kaioh] in Sailor Moon? How did you get into her head, and did you feel any pressure in voicing a character that's widely beloved as an LGBTQIA+ icon?Lauren Landa: So actually, I can answer all those quest...
