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Live-action ‘Astro Boy’ coming from ‘Lego Movie’ animation team

Astro Boy is becoming a real boy very soon. The Hollywood Reporter reported on Wednesday that the Japanese manga character will be getting the live action treatment from Australia’s Animal Logic Entertainment and Japan’s Tezuka Productions. Animal Logic has most recently worked with animation on Avengers: Age of Ultron and The LEGO Movie. Astro (Boy) …

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East meeting West: Anime, Manga and American Animation

America’s fascination with all things Japanese long predates Keanu Reeves’s backflips or the recent adaptations of Ringu. The popularity of Japanese pop culture is a huge subject and even tackling Japanese manga and anime is daunting. Experts in the fields of manga and anime will have to excuse the necessary compression needed to introduce some …

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