Once again David Production have pulled it out of the bag and created an AMAZING first episode of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run is the seventh story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Set in the United States in
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The team at Cardiff animation studio Turnip Starfish were recently asked to produce some designs in an ‘Anime’ style for one of our clients. Two adverts were going to be produced, one targeting adults and one targeting teenagers. But the style needed to work across both adverts. The Turnip Starfish Manga queen Lexemon will take
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Many moons ago, when anime reached the western world, our first experience of Japanese animation was likely to be either Akira or Ghost in the Shell. Both of these films are still celebrated and considered as films that you must watch usually placing in the top 10 list of most anime aficionados. However, true fans
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Fandom ‘Fandom: the state or attitude of being a fan.’ Merriam-Webster website Fandoms exist in many different forms. They can be related to a sports team, a pop star, movies and so much more. Fandoms are basically a group of people that have extreme respect and love for their chosen topic. Anime and manga have
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“They say that when an object is well loved it is eventually imbued with a soul, then what about the garbage, the trash that gets thrown away? What is that imbued with?” — Narrator, Chapter 1, Gachiakuta Gachiakuta (meaning ‘legit trash’ or ‘real garbage’) is an ongoing manga written and illustrated by Kei Urana, featuring
Lexy had been drawing anime, manga and cartoons for years. She has working in the animation industry for over 20 years and been teaching young people how to draw for most of that time as well! Check out her latest sketchbook. Give us a like and subscribe! You can join her at one of our
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Recently the creator of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, became ill and was unable to complete his weekly chapter of One Piece for publication in Weekly Shonen Jump. Fans of One Piece were disappointed but most of all they wished Oda a speedy recovery. After reading the apology statement from Oda’s publishing team I started to
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One Piece is one of the most impressive manga and anime ever created and almost every manga and anime fan will have heard of it. Created by Eiichiro Oda, the One Piece manga was first published in 1997 in serialized form in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in Japan. It’s popularity as a manga prompted an
One Piece, Naruto and Bleach. Three anime/manga that have dominated the anime/manga world for several years. If you asked a random person if they’d ever heard of these anime, most people would recognise at least one of them, even if they wouldn’t consider themselves an anime fan. These anime/manga are called ‘The Big Three’, also
Dandadan. There are so many words to describe Dandadan that my list would go on forever so it’s best to just say that this anime is NOT boring, sensible, calm or your everyday anime. It’s an exciting rollercoaster ride full of twists and turns and the occasional loop de loop that takes you by surprise.
