Anime crossovers are nothing new within the medium as various franchises have dipped their toes into other universes in their histories. This summer, comic publisher Mad Cave Studios is planning to ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In the late 1960s, there was a ...

The best aspect of the new "live action" movie Speed Racer is that it's everything a fan of the original 1960s Japanese anime cartoon could wish for in a modern, big money, computer-enhanced ...

The anime world’s popularity can’t be denied, and the medium is becoming so big that it cannot be contained on the screen or via the pages of manga. Specifically, North American comic books are ...

Anime is fairly ubiquitous in North America these days; Netflix is even commissioning original animation from Japan and Korea, and even though there still tends to be a bit of a stigma surrounding ...

Back in the 1960s, the muscle car wars were about to start in America, while in a very far away land called Japan, the Speed Racer was born. Coming into the world at first in print form, the idea ...

As I admitted in a post below, I’ve always been a fan of the original 60s anime of Speed Racer. One of my proudest moments came in the early 1990s, when I was co-running Streamline Pictures, and I had ...