Over two years ago, Trigun Stampede premiered, offering a new reimagining of the hit anime based on Yashiro Nightow’s manga. A slick new visual style and some extra additions made it its own distinct thing, and now Studio Orange is ready to bring things to a close with Trigun Stargaze. The first two episodes of the upcoming series […]
How Netflix’s ‘Leviathan’ United Japanese Animation and Western Imagination
Leviathan, the latest collaboration between Beastars‘ Studio Orange and Star Wars: Visions producer Qubic Pictures, marks Netflix’s entry—alongside Crunchyroll—into the realm of Western novel-to-anime adaptations, echoing a path carved by the Answer Studio’s Anne Shirley. Based on Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson’s 2009 steampunk alternate history of World War I (featuring mechs and living animal […]