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Books: Leiji Matsumoto
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On February 20th, Leiji Matsumoto passed away at the age of 85. Matsumoto made his professional debut in the pages of Manga Shonen magazine in 1954, dabbling in…
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Memorial Stream for the Legendary Leiji Matsumoto
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A Personal Look Back at Matsumoto Leiji
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#112 - Interview with Jonathan Tarbox! Talking Leiji Matsumoto, Anime Conventions, and working in Manga!
Hey everyone! Look, another interview! For the third entry in our Leiji Matsumoto interview series, Sully chats with Jonathan Tarbox about Matsumoto’s WWII comic The Cockpit and how…
#136 - Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth (1982) & Remembering Leiji Matsumoto
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Episode # 107 – Interview with Leiji Matsumoto Scholars, Tim Eldred and Ed Hoff
The first installment of our special interview series revolving around the newly released essay collection on Leji Matsutmoto, co-edited by past guest Helen McCarthy. In this episode, Sully…
#107 - Interview with Tim Eldred and Ed Hoff on the Works and Influence of Leiji Matsumoto
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The Life of Leiji
Dozens of books were published about Leiji Matsumoto in his lifetime. Many of them attempted to catalog and analyze his enormous output of manga and anime projects, but…
The Playful Icons of Hiroshi Mori
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