If you're an anime fan of a certain vintage, then you probably have a few Roman Albums, which where great magazine/book hybrids filled with images and information about our fave anime shows. Now Let's Anime takes a look at Roman Albums #1-70, what they were all about, and why they were called "Roman Albums" to begin with!

http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-rise-and-fall-of-roman-album-empire.html

Let's Anime is back with a look at the neglected Go Nagai property God Mazinger, the Mazinger series that even the super robot fanatics have forgotten about, or never knew about in the first place, maybe. It's a trip 20,000 years back in time to 1984 as I look at both the apocalyptic, ultra-violent manga and the non-apocalyptic, not unduly violent anime.

http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2018/04/oh-my-god-mazinger.html

The latest Let's Anime is all about a terrible 1970s super-car auto racing cartoon called "Cho Supercar Gattiger" - yes, Super Supercar Gattiger" - about five cars that combine into... one car. They race against the Demon Motor Company with the fate of the world in the balance. It's one of those shows that got subtitled on UHF television back in the day, which is how I first was exposed to its badness.




Anyway, it's all happening at Let's Anime! Vroom! Vroom! http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2018/02/unsafe-at-any-frame-rate.html

The seminal Japanese cartoon Speed Racer turns fifty this year, and that means it's time for Gen-X kids such as myself to begin saying "fifty years old? Why it seems like just yesterday..."

Back when the live-action Wachowski siblings' film came out, I wrote a big piece about Speed Racer for Otaku USA, and I've since re-jiggered it slightly and it's up at Let's Anime!

http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2017/10/speeding-into-fifty.html

There's a new Let's Anime all about the gigantic life story of a gigantic talent, The Osamu Tezuka Story!




It's happening now at Let's Anime! http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2017/06/the-osamu-tezuka-story.html

So a while back - like ten years ago - I wrote a Let's Anime blog post about Gatchaman. Yeah, I've been writing that blog for ten years. Whatever. Anyway, I wrote this really generic bare-bones broad-brush sort of piece about Gatchaman, and then I sort of forgot about it until a week ago.

A week ago I got another one of those emails from Google where they tell me that a blog post has been put into 'draft' because of reported DMCA copyright infringement. The Gatchaman post from '07 was that post. Just like I did with the Space Battleship Yamato post, I filed a counter-claim. Google responded by saying, in essence, "we dunno what you're talking about."

I'm fairly certain these DMCA reports are being generated by a 'bot that a service uses to search the internets for URLs that contain the names of properties, properties owned by the corporations that hired the service. You hire the service, tell it the names of the things you own, it activates its DMCA-bot 9000 and that bot scours the Web looking for illegal streaming sites, Megauploads, and other infringements thereof.

So my counter claim being fruitless, I bit the bullet and edited the post. I changed the title so that it no longer contained the words "science ninja team gatchaman" and I took the opportunity to go into the text and fix links, add some more information, throw in some more images, and generally do the kind of maintenance that most older posts tend to need. That's what I like about blogging as opposed to print; blog posts can be repaired, enhanced, and otherwise changed as necessary.

SO, if you want to read about Battle Of The Planets aka Gatchaman aka G-Force aka Eagle Riders, please enjoy!

http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2017/04/your-bird-ninja-update.html

New Let's Anime details American theatrical releases of Japanese animated films in the days before Akira forced critics to sit up and take notice. Hitherto unreleased images of Warriors Of The Wind and Galaxy Express newspaper ads, Cleopatra reviews, and Nobody's Boy posters! Mean -spirited reviews, bankruptcy, and Jim Backus! It's all there at Let's Anime!

Big new Let's Anime is up all about the 1984 Lensman film based on the books by E.E. "Doc" Smith! Manga, TV shows, follow up novels, toys, the whole galaxy of Galactic Patrol Lensman is covered with varying degrees of accuracy and fidelity, just like the movie.



If you don't read Let's Anime, then Boskone wins - and who would want that?

new Let's Anime looks at the space battleship anime show that definitely is not a Space Battleship Yamato rip off, totally not, no sir



only one question remains - are YOU a big enough Thunder Sub fan to join the Real Deal Thunder Sub Club?

Back when I was very small I watched a Japanese cartoon called "Prince Planet", and it more or less impacted me for life. 2016 is the 50th anniversary of Prince Planet on American television so here's a Let's Anime all about it!