Gone but not forgotten
published : 28 Jul 2021 at 04:00 Jinnipha Nivasabut and her solo art exhibition 2D AfterLife . (Photos by Apichart Jinakul and Suwitcha Chaiyong)
In a world where people have to live in a limited space behind huge walls in order to survive a man-eating Titan, Erwin Smith, the 13th Commander of the Survey Corps sacrificed his life in a battle with massive monster. The commander hoped that his people would have freedom and experience life beyond the walls.
The death of Erwin Smith, a fictional character in the manga series Attack On Titan, affected fans around the world emotionally. Artist Jinnipha Nivasabut, better known as Pan Jinnipha, a fan of manga and Japanese animation, has experienced the loss of several beloved manga characters. Thus, the young artist created the art exhibition titled 2D AfterLife at Palette Artspace, which has been set up in the atmosphere of a funeral.
Demon Slayer Studio and Founder Indicted for Tax Evasion
Both Ufotable, the studio behind the anime series
Demon Slayer, and the company’s founder, representative director, and president Hikaru Kondo have been indicted for tax evasion.
The animation studio acknowledged the indictment made by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. It also states that the company has filed an amended tax return and paid the full amount. It also apologizes for any inconvenience it may have caused to any related parties. Ufotable allegedly owed 137 million yen in taxes.
According to the Kyodo news service (via Anime News Network), ufotable owes 109 million yen in corporate tax from 2015 to 2018, and 28 million yen in consumption tax from September 2014 to August 2018. Kondo reportedly hid money earned from ufotable anime-themed restaurants and stored them at home last year.
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What do
Spirited Away have in common? They re both classics and they re both obsessed with water to varying degrees of deadliness. But more importantly than that, they were both overtaken at the Japanese box office by
Demon Slayer the Movie, which is now the most successful film ever made in Japan.
Mugen Train is also the second anime film to ever top the US charts, and it looks like UK success is guaranteed too.
Demon Slayer The Movie continues right where we left off at the end of season one, with Tanjiro and Nezuko boarding the Mugen train alongside Zenitsu and Inosuke. Together, the demon slayers have banded together to investigate strange disappearances that keep happening on the train. Flame Hashira Kyōjuro Rengoku, an elite demon slayer, soon shows up too, and then chaos quickly follows.
The box office is continuing to try and rebound against the pandemic, and this week saw Jason Statham’s
Wrath of Man lead the way. The Guy Ritchie-directed action flick took the #1 spot this weekend with $8.1 million. That’s a fairly good start for a mid-budget action thriller, and in fact is not far off from what Ritchie’s pre-pandemic film
The Gentlemen opened with ($10.7 million) in January of 2020. It also tops the last action film of this caliber that Statham toplined in 2016’s
The Mechanic: Resurrection which grossed $7.5 million in its first weekend.
Of course, like any film during the pandemic there are a ton of asterisks to be mentioned.