I seriously don’t get the whole 3D craze. I go to the movies to relax, and dodging virtual crap being flung at my head is not my idea of relaxing.

So even though I love Ghost in the Shell more …

So, you might remember that we mentioned local con Sugoicon in the last podcast. Specifically, we’re going to be there- at least, Shapiro Keats and Musashi and I are, and maybe Mazinga will drop by and also Ed, but probably …

This week we welcome co-editor Gregory ‘Mazinga’ Harris, Patricia ‘AnaKhouri’ Correll, and Ed to put a cap on our Gen Con 2010 coverage. We also have some other convention news, I announce my in-development chambara tabletop RPG, and we pick …

I was listening to Talk of the Nation today (as you do). It seems Thursday’s pressing and relevant news story- I kid, Neil, I love your show- was the Best Female Action Heroes in movies. Theu discussed Ripley from Alien …

I found an interview with Laeta Kalogridis, writer on the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie (I already made fun of her on this site for writing Pathfinder). She doesn’t give us much except the movie is based on the …

So I went temporarily out of my mind a couple weeks ago and volunteered to run a panel at an anime convention. This is crazy because I HATE talking in front of people, and I don’t really have time to …

Lots of news today, but the most exciting  for the Yellow Menace staff is that there are a couple new Ghost in the Shell manga on the horizon:

ANN Article

Both will be based on the Stand Alone Complex anime; …

Good news: someone has finally been hired to pen a screenplay for the live-action Ghost in the Shell flick. Bad news: they suck. Okay, maybe suck is a bit pejorative. But take a look at this resume and tell me …

Two classics of modern Japanese animation, each a landmark in their own right, will be released on Blu-ray on November 24th, courtesy of Manga Entertainment. I could go on for paragraphs about how awesome these flicks are (and probably …

Anime News Network reports that Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii will not be helming one of the shorts directly, but instead will act as ‘Creative Director’ – uhm, which is fine since that’s what he did for Jin-Roh…

Conan O’Brien, he of the plastic face, recently took a trip to BangZoom!, an L.A. studio where anime is dubbed. There, he and his pal Andy tried their hands at dubbing Yellow Menace’s favorite movie, Ghost in the Shell.

Funny …

Our comrade AnaKhouri might have more to say about this, but I found this discussion with Ph.D. student Deanna Jackson fairly interesting. The topic is ‘Women and Anime’.

Examiner: How do you feel women are portrayed in Anime?
D.J.: Now …