It's a meta series, as creator Tetsuya Takahashi first created Xenogears for Square with botched plans for more than one game ...

will come with some of the biggest anime releases, and we have talked about the 15 most anticipated anime of the coming year.

Sparking that panic was a radio show called “War of the Worlds,” narrated by the great actor/director Orson Welles. It was broadcast the night before Halloween in 1938. It was entirely a piece ...

Helm Hammerhand (voice of Brian Cox) in “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.” The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim—an anime prequel to the original Lord of the Rings ...

War of the Worlds' has become a huge part of local folklore in that part of the state, so anything touching on the subject of UFOs is going to remind people of the broadcast." The panic in New ...

Kamiyama and screenwriters Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou frame The War of the Rohirrim as a historical tale told by The Lord of the Rings' Éowyn (Miranda Otto, returning in voiceover).

The War of the Rohirrim, the latest foray into this ... You’re tending to the sacred flame of geekdom, stewarding a world whose fan base makes the Uruk’s look tame. Kenji Kamiyama’s anime ...

That’s the case in “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” a hot-and ... the film does succeed at recreating the fantasy world we know and love, just in a new anime format.

The real selling point of “The War of the Rohirrim” is not that it’s animated, but that it’s anime — as in rendered in the fine-lined, adult-friendly style of Japanese TV series and films.

it never feels like the movie is taking advantage of animation’s ability to present fantasy worlds in ways that aren’t possible with live action. Often, The War of the Rohirrim feels ...