meta: The Industry

4K video is soon to be a consumer medium, but there's multiple reasons anime won't get much of a boost from it

Yet another attempt at a live-action 'AKIRA' has geared up, but the main problem remains: who would bother seeing it?

Direct financing of anime, both original works and the distribution of reissues, has just begun to show both its limits and its promise

What constitutes a 'classic' in anime, and what does it mean to define that?

Sony should use its live-action 'Robotech' remake as a way to free 'Macross' from the smothering legal quagmire that's kept the franchise in limbo for too long

Seven of the questions I ask myself about any anime, and the questions they in turn provoke

Centering criticism of media around available, in-print titles is useful in the short run, but deprives both audiences and critics of real food for thought in the long run