Helen McCarthy

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I watch this video every March 11.
My thoughts are with Japan.
>> youtu.be/iTOcoDfbAu4

We are thrilled to share that our Human Authored scheme is now live.

This scheme has been designed for the benefit of SoA members, to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.

Utage is confused about Tamon's two different personas

Chatty AF 241: 2026 Winter Mid-Season Check-In

This season has an amazing spread of excellent shojo, josei, and romance anime!

www.animefeminist.com/chatty-af-24...

EVERY Manga Video VHS* ordered by UK release date in 15 1 min clips!

WARNING: this totally happening video contains graphic violence, gratuitous swearing, some bad dubbing & possible spoilers

1992-93 inc Fist of the North Star, Dominion, Project A-Ko, Venus Wars, Overfiend, 3x3 Eyes

#anime

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Robotech II: The Sentinels? Japanese animation, anime, cartoons, manga, 1960-1990, Tezuka, Miyazaki, Ishinomori, Matsumoto, Yamato, Gatchaman, Star Blazers, Captain Harlock

Clearly up-to-date and in touch with the pulse of anime fandom, Let's Anime dissects the stitched-together sequel project Robotech II: The Sentinels! letsanime.blogspot.com/2025/06/robo...

On This Day, 11th March 1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series. You can read the pitch here: https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/us-drama/us-drama-collections/star-trek-tos | Later early U.S.S. Enterprise design by Matt Jeffries via Forgotten Trek “Designing the first Enterprise“ https://forgottentrek.com/the-original-series/designing-the-first-enterprise/

On This Day, 11th March 1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series. You can read the pitch here: https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/us-drama/us-drama-collections/star-trek-tos | Later early U.S.S. Enterprise design by Matt Jeffries via Forgotten Trek “Designing the first Enterprise“ https://forgottentrek.com/the-original-series/designing-the-first-enterprise/

On This Day, 11th March 1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series. You can read the pitch here: sites.google.com/site/tvwriti... | Later early U.S.S. Enterprise design by Matt Jeffries via Forgotten Trek forgottentrek.com/the-original...

A canalside building in Tokyo illuminated at night by projection mapping. The facade displays yokai figures on a blue-purple background beneath a full moon, including a gashadokuro skeleton and a chochin-obake lantern ghost, reflected in the water below. ©HITOHATA,INC.

A canalside building in Tokyo illuminated at night by projection mapping. The facade displays yokai figures from Japanese art on a yellow-green background, including a large skeleton, a crouching demon, a white beast, and a kappa, reflected in the water below. ©HITOHATA,INC.

Yokai from ukiyo-e and the Hyakki Yagyo scroll will be projected across the buildings and waterway of Tennozu Canal East in Tokyo. The free outdoor projection mapping event runs March 20-23, 18:30-21:00.

My favorite Nobuo Uematsu piece: "Macross de Chocobo"

There is no reason NOT to go union for your multi-million dollar budget game unless you’re being greedy and want to pay actors less.

Huge kudos to Ben for standing up for what’s right, and shame on CAPCOM for devaluing the art and skill of voice acting for the sake of saving dollars.

Cowboy Bebop Helmer Shinichiro Watanabe Shares 'Closest Picks' from Criterion Films From The Killing of a Chinese Bookie & Branded to Kill, to Jacques Tati & of course, Bruce Lee

Of course, the Cowboy Bebop director picked Bruce Lee, but so much more!

Toei Showcases Extended Promo For The ‘#DoomedMegalopolis’ #Anime Blu-ray Release To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the supernatural #anime classic makes its stunning Blu-ray premiere!

Toei Showcases Extended Promo For The ‘#DoomedMegalopolis’ #Anime Blu-ray Release

Variety reports that a live-action adaptation of Samurai Champloo is in development by Tomorrow Studios (One Piece live-action), with original director Shinichiro Watanabe involved!

✨More: atani.me/samurai-champloo-live-action

GKIDS Acquires Distribution Rights for Live-Action Look Back Film in U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland Film opens in Japanese theaters in 2026

Look forward to Look Back's live-action adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga in theaters!

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

Go ahead and block this account

me talking about pacific rim

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood market The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association, and allows authors to register their books and download a “Human Authored” logo to display on their back cover. Continue reading...

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

Any aspiring writers out there? My publisher Chin Music Press is opening their submissions window.

#StandAloneComplex is one of the finest and most complete #anime series ever made. 52 fantastic episodes. Some are stand alone and others part of the complex #LaughingMan and #IndividualEleven narrative. The best thing Kamiyama-sensei has ever produced. Also the only anime owned by #Lionsgate!

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.

Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.

That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.

The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

“When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.”

- Marcus Aurelius

#Stoicism
#stoicquotes
#mindfulness

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This is one of 2025's best movies. But you won't get to see it compete at the Oscars.

It's called Nobody, and it earned almost $250 million on a $10< million budget. A future is coming for small, risky films — with or without the Oscars. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-t...

Evangelion Kabuki Performance Took to the Skies

Shinji and Kaworu's relationship is immortalized in a classical Japanese theater performance.

Many places are.

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