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The Land of Obscusion's Hot-Blooded Ranking of Masami Kurumada's Manga! #7 to #1 (Kurumada's Long-Runners)

When it comes to legendary mangaka, most tend to have just one iconic work that everyone instantly thinks of, even if that individual actual...

The Land of Obscusion: Home of the Obscure & Forgotten

Apr 14, 2025 • Subscribe

The Land of Obscusion's Hot-Blooded Ranking of Masami Kurumada's Manga! #14 to #8 (Kurumada's Short-Run Works)

I normally don't really bother to do rankings here on The Land of Obscusion, and that's mainly because there's always that feeling of defini...

The Land of Obscusion: Home of the Obscure & Forgotten

Apr 7, 2025 • Subscribe

30 Years of Neo Mechanical Romance: Why B't X Might Be Masami Kurumada's Strongest Overall Narrative

Even as someone who proclaims Masami Kurumada as his all-time favorite mangaka, there's no denying one thing: The man isn't always the stron...

The Land of Obscusion: Home of the Obscure & Forgotten

Feb 19, 2024 • Subscribe

B't X

Oshi no Ko vs. Getter Robo: A Hot-Blooded Killer Combo

Sometimes it takes a meme to put a giant robot anime in the minds of the people. Hot on the heels of “Is this a pigeon?” comes the…

OGIUE MANIAX

May 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Oshi No Ko, Getter Robo

2018: Changing my career path and watching mostly slice of life anime

2018 was a long year for me. I moved to another city and started law school. The Winter Olympics happened in South Korea and the FIFA (men’s) World…

Nigorimasen!

Jan 2, 2019 • Subscribe

Hot Blooded (뜨거운 피, Cheon Myeong-kwan, 2022)

A petty footsoldier tiring of the underworld life finds himself dragged into internecine gangland conflict in Cheon Myeong-kwan’s retro gangster picture.

Windows on Worlds

Nov 15, 2022 • Subscribe

50 Years Ago: Bruce Lee

50 years ago today, on July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong. Matthew Polly’s informative biography, Bruce Lee: A Life (2018/Simon & Schuster), offers a detailed…

Brian Camp's Film and Anime Blog

Jul 20, 2023 • Subscribe

The Tezuka Star System Taken to the Extreme? Saint Seiya's Callbacks to Masami Kurumada's Prior Works

If you've read manga for a decent enough amount of time you more than likely have noticed that some mangaka have a habit of re-using certain...

The Land of Obscusion: Home of the Obscure & Forgotten

May 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

Doing It "The Wrong Way": My History with Masami Kurumada's Works as an English-Speaking American Fan

Unlike (seemingly) most English-speaking anime fans, of any generation apparently, I kind of got into anime a little bit later in life. Sure...

The Land of Obscusion: Home of the Obscure & Forgotten

Nov 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Hideaki Anno: A Career Retrospective

Hideaki Anno has long been considered to be one of the forerunners of modern anime and otakudom. Matthew Roe (@TheCriticlysm) takes another look at the career and impact…

Anime News Network - Views

Oct 1, 2021 • Subscribe

Reconsidering Belladonna of Sadness: Still powerful after almost 50 years

1973's Belladonna of Sadness combines a 19th century work's vision of the liberated witch with second-wave feminist ideology to create a flawed but fascinating work that invites revisiting…

Anime Feminist

Feb 11, 2022 • Subscribe

Belladonna of Sadness

12 Years of Manga Therapy

So today, my blog is officially 12 years old. I don’t have much to say, but I know my writing has slowed down a lot. I haven’t written…

Drop-In to Manga - Manga, Mental Health & Community

Feb 25, 2022 • Subscribe

Pick of the Week: A Mostly Floral Assortment

MICHELLE: I’m very happy about more Ooku and Rose of Versialles and excited to check out The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Jack Flash & Faerie Case Files, but it…

Manga Bookshelf

Aug 17, 2020 • Subscribe

Bloom Into You, Rose of Versailles

Mostly 9s and a 12

Stark needs some confidence. Sousou no Frieren 12 has a couple of bits revolving around what a hero is, and while the points they make are predictable, they’re…

Too Old for Anime

Dec 3, 2023 • Subscribe

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life

Hiroshi Fujioka Looks Back at 50 Years of Being Kamen Rider

"My encounter with Kamen Rider is the biggest thing that ever happened to me—it really changed my life. But more than that, I think it even changed history."

Anime News Network - Views

Nov 19, 2021 • Subscribe

An Overview of Turn A Gundam’s Animation Directors

An Animation Director (作画監督, sakuga kantoku) or AD, colloquially known as sakkan (作監) in Japanese, is responsible for maintaining the quality and consistency of the animation of an…

Moon's Cocoon

Apr 7, 2024 • Subscribe

Turn A Gundam

Interview: Hiroshi Fujioka Looks Back at 50 Years of Being Kamen Rider

At this year's Tokyo International Film Festival, I got to spend thirty minutes with Hiroshi Fujioka, the original Kamen Rider.

Biggest In Japan

Nov 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Brief Connections: A Nobumoto Keiko Career Retrospective

One of the benefits to a creator having worked on so few projects is it becomes much simpler to look through their body of work to find common…

Anime Feminist

Dec 17, 2021 • Subscribe

Carole & Tuesday, Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, Tokyo Godfathers

A two and a three but mostly fours

Lemon just learned Mitsuki has a girlfriend, and it ain’t her. One more ep2-3 to go, and that’s Make Heroine go Oosugiru!, which seems to have sort of…

Too Old for Anime

Aug 2, 2024 • Subscribe

Manga Pulse 508: Hot Rock

We’re really going to shake things up today. We have a manga. But wait, there’s more! Manga that is. Ok, you caught us. We’re not really breaking the…

Anime Pulse

Feb 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Artist spotlight: Masami Obari

Among all the members of the Kanada school, one of the most important and original ones is probably Masami Obari. Along with Masahito Yamashita and Hiroyuki Imaishi, he…

Animétudes

May 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Metal Armor Dragonar

Masami Suda (1943-2021)

Masami Suda, who died of cancer on 1st August, had a career that spanned everything from the sci-fi of Space Knight Tekkaman to the basketball action of Slam…

All the Anime

Aug 18, 2021 • Subscribe

Slam Dunk, Space Knight Tekkaman

Pick of the Week: Mostly Mujirushi

ASH: While the weekly floodgates of manga appear to have been reopened, there’s one release in particular that has my attention this week – Naoki Urasawa’s Mujirushi: The…

Manga Bookshelf

Jul 20, 2020 • Subscribe

Barakamon

Pick of the Week: Mostly Fish

SEAN: Honestly, the title I'm most interested in this week is Fish Society, despite the fact that I'm 99% sure that once I pick it Ed will tell…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Akira Daikuhara: the works and career of a forgotten anime pioneer

For Japanese animation fans and historians, the name of Akira Daikuhara (sometimes spelled Daikubara) should ring a bell as belonging to one of the major artists in postwar…

Animétudes

Sep 4, 2021 • Subscribe

Sasuke

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 128: 50 Years of Black Jack with Clarissa

  Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This episode is sponsored in par...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Feb 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Black Jack

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 125: 50 Years of Cutie Honey with Salvatore

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The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Nov 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Cutey Honey, New Cutey Honey

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Girl from Phantasia

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Tokyo 24th Ward

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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2010)

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Angelique

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Ayakashi

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My top 50 AMV’s of 2021: 50 – 41

Hello everyone and welcome to my list of top 50 AMV’s for 2021. This is the first year I’ve done something like this, and I chose possibly the…

A pocketful of AMV's

Jan 4, 2022 • Subscribe

The Common Career Path of Media Translators

I was talking to an aspiring translators when I noticed a pattern in the career path of media translators which mirrored my own experience.

J-En Translations

Aug 10, 2024 • Subscribe

High School DxD: Mages of Career Counseling

By Ichiei Ishibumi and Miyama-Zero. Released in Japan by Fujimi Fantasia Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Haydn Trowell. I’ve said before that this…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 2, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia, High School DxD