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...with an even better weapon: cute high-school girls. Buffy the Vampire Slayer exterminated ghouls for seven seasons in the U.S., and now with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really excited...
...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Blood+ (which debuts in Japan Oct. 8 on TBS) is a spinoff of the 2000 film Blood: The Last Vampire, Japan's first digital feature-length anim?, which won critical acclaim from the likes of James Cameron and Quentin Tarantino. TV series derived from old movies tend to be as reliably bad as movies derived from old TV series, but Blood+ should buck the trend. The effects budget is high for TV, and Production I.G.?the team behind the original film and groundbreaking anim? such as Ghost in the Shell?signed...
...moment of glorious comprehension?is the space Carey has set out to explore in Wrong About Japan. It's not a journey he expected to take. His 12-year-old son Charley, the kind of introverted preteen who would never deign to express interest in anything, gets hooked on anim?, manga and all things cool that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff?he hopes they'll "enter the mansion...
...understand what Carey fears. But he's wrong again?a writer for Gundam explains that the kids inside the suits aren't isolating themselves from the world. Rather, she says, the robots represent "a safe place in which [they] can interact with the world," which is exactly what anim? and manga have enabled Charley to do in his own world...
...Carey never gets Japan quite right, but his writer's eyes always appreciate what they see. Near the end of their trip, father and son luck into a meeting with filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. The language barrier, the cultural barrier, every barrier falls away as the delighted anim? master shows flip-books of his early work, the characters dancing with life on the corner of the page. "Thank God we had no language," muses Carey. "Thank God there were no questions to ask, just the privilege of sharing the joy of a great artist telling a story to an audience...