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Anime Herald Fiscal Report for Year Ending 3/31/2023

Introduction

As part of our efforts to maintain full transparency within our operation, it has been decided that, every year, the chief officer of Anime Herald, LLC must compile an annual within 8 weeks of the end of the fiscal year. This document will serve to outline our finances, as we...

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Anime Boston 2023: The Cosplay Cometh

Anime Boston 2023: The Cosplay Cometh

Note: Apologies for the weird format on this. Patreon no longer allows galleries after their most recent updates.

Author: Samantha Ferreira

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

It seems that each Anime Boston finds new ways to add to the electric ...

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Interview With Artist Kehasuk

Note: Due to publisher requirements, we will be publishing this on the main Anime Herald site on May 8. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Interviewer: Seth Burn

Interviewee: Kehasuk

Date: 5/1/2023

Kehasu...

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Anime Boston 2023: Bad Anime, Bad!

Anime Boston 2023: Bad Anime, Bad!

Author: Samantha Ferreira

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Host: Tinfoil Pyramid Hats

Date: 4/8/2023

Over the past fourteen years, Brian T. Price’s Bad Anime, Bad! panel has become a signature event at Anime Bo...

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Interview With Voltes V Legacy Director Mark A. Reyes

Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of this article, the final piece will go live on the main Anime Herald site on 5/6/2023. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Interview date: 4/30/2023

Interviewer: Samantha Ferr...

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Anime Boston 2023: A Brief History of Yokai

Anime Boston 2023: A Brief History of Yokai

Author: Samantha Ferreira

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Host: Zack Davisson

Time: 4/8/2023 at 2:00PM

When discussin...

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Anime Boston 2023: Why We Love Time Loops

Anime Boston 2023: Why We Love Time Loops

Author: Samantha Ferreira

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Date: 4/7/2023

Host: Dapplemii

In our uncertain world, it...

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Anime Boston 2023: The Legacy of Leiji Matsumoto

Anime Boston 2023: The Legacy of Leiji Matsumoto

Author: Samantha Ferreira

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Hosts: Zack Davisson, Helen McCarthy, Neil Nadelman, Darius Washington

On February...

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Anime Boston 2023: Sniffing Glue: The Punk Energy of Early British Anime Fanzines

  • Author: Samantha Ferreira
  • Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Date: 4/7/2023

Host: Helen McCarthy

In the e...

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Anime Boston 2023 - Introduction: An All-New Part of History

Author: Samantha Ferreira

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

On April 18, 2003, anime fans from across New England flocked to Boston's Park Plaza Hotel to partake in a celebration of all things anime. Anime Boston 2003, the first major anime convention to hit ...

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Katsura Sunshine: A Rakugo Master… except they don’t have those in Osaka… or Canada

Author: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

WhittyMoon: Are you of Japanese descent? If not, how did you get into rakugo?

Katsura Sunshine: To my knowledge I’m not of...

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Sofia Warren: Radical New Yorker Cartoonist

Author: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Sofia Warren, the author of Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, was kind enough ...

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Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 is the Perfect Sequel

Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 is the Perfect Sequel

  Author: Adam Wescott (Wendeego)

Editor: Madeline Blondeau

The premise of Birdy the Mighty is simple. Tsutomu Senkawa is a studious high school student from Earth. Birdy is a brash, super-strong alien cop. Forced by circumstance to...

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Reincarnated as a Sword: Shinji Ishihira and Yōsuke Shimada

Anime Herald: Mr Ishihira, you’ve gone on the record stating that when you decide what titles to direct, you consider the content, and not the genre. What was it about “Reincarnated as a Sword” that attracted you to the project?

Shinji Ishihira: Usual...

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Looking Back on Newtype USA 15 Years Later

Author: Red Bard

Editor: Alex Henderson

“Oh no! We’ve…we’ve just received word that this is the last issue of Newtype USA magazine. Good heavens!”, reads a small line of text tucked quietly to the bottom of the final page of Newtype...

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[Alexandros] at Anime NYC

[Alexandros] at Anime NYC

Note: Due to requirements from an outside party, this will go live on the main Anime Herald site this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience.'

Author: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Moderator: Having just fini...

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Acky Bright at Anime NYC

Author: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Anime Herald: You started as a graffiti artist. Did you ever imagine you’d become a professional artist with art books and more?

Acky Bright: I couldn’t imagine. M...

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Shūkō Murase: Gundam with Style

Author: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Unknown Outlet: It’s the 20th anniversary of your directorial debut with Witch Hunter Robin. What were some of your favorite experiences working on that project and how do you feel you hav...

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Love is War: An Interview with Aoi Koga, Tatsuya Ishikawa, and Tatsuya Ishikawa

Interviewer: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira


MyAnimeList: How are you feeling about the preview screening of “[...

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The Editor's Desk: 2/16/2023

Happy Thursday, everybody!

The past few weeks have been busy, for sure. Most important, though, is that the Anime Herald team got a bit bigger this week! On Monday, we welcomed Cy as a new member of our editing team. We're all super excited to have them aboard as we continue our journey to ...

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Genocyber: Anime’s Almost Classic Cyberpunk Horror, Ruined By A Critical Flaw

Genocyber: Anime’s Almost Classic Cyberpunk Horror, Ruined By A Critical Flaw

Author: Anthony Gramuglia

Editor: Madeline Blondeau

Content Warning: Contains imagery that includes graphic violence, gore, and body horror.

Old-school anime fans know just how weird the medium can get. There are a massive numbe...

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Lupin III, Bega's Battle, and the Birth of Anime FMVs

Lupin III, Bega's Battle, and the Birth of Anime FMVs

Author: Madeline Blondeau

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Thank you to Mark McDonald for the Patron article request!

In 1983, Lupin The Third made his North American TV debut on WTBS.

Well, not quite – the rascally th...

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Muppets Mayhem at New York Comic Con

Author: Seth Burn

Editor: Samantha Ferreira

Saara Chaudry & Anders Holm

Unknown Outlet: Can you break your characters and what they want from the band?

Anders Holm: Yes.

Saara Chaudry:<...

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The Editor's Desk: 12/31/2022 - Meet the New Year, Same as the Old Year

Happy New Year's Eve, everybody! I hope your holiday season has been wonderful, and that you've been weathering these chilly winter months with great anime.

Personally, I've been particularly enthr...

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The Editor's Desk, 12/10/2022 - *Wipes Dust Off, Whistles*

Happy holidays, everyone!

It's been a minute since I've done one of these. I'm genuinely sorry about the radio silence, as I was hoping to have these pieces go out every one or two weeks. That... kind of didn't happen, and I apologize.

On a more positive note, I'm pleased to announce ...

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Fantastically Bizarre - The Filmography Of Keiichi Tanaami

Author: Borealis Capps

Editor: Lydia Rivers

Content Warning: Some of the sources linked to in this article may lead to art that is considered Not Safe For Work by common North American standards, and some of the videos you may find of...

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Interview With Yoichi Nishikawa

Interviewer: Seth Burn

Anime Herald: What is your origin story as an artist? Were you always interested in art when you were a child, or was this something that developed later?

Yoichi Nishikawa: My maternal grandfather is an oil pain...

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Ramayana: The Anime Film that Changed Indian Animation Forever

Author: Aniket Singh Chauhan

India isn’t known for great animation – and rightly so. The last major animation blockbuster was released way back in 2014[1], with the box off...

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Examining Punk Fashion in NANA

Examining Punk Fashion in NANA

Author: Kat Schmidt

When scrolling through TikTok recently, I noticed that among the fashion videos  there was a subsection of NANA Y2K fashion and alt-fashion posts. They laud Nana Osaki as an icon of late nineties and Y2K fashion, and they are absolutel...

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A Conversation With Lauren Landa

A Conversation With Lauren Landa

Interviewer: Samantha Ferreira

Anime Herald: What was your experience in building out the character for Michiru [Kaioh] in Sailor Moon? How did you get into her head, and did you feel any pressure in voicing a character that's widely beloved as an ...

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