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December 24, 2019 · 1 comment
Dagashi Kashi
by Chris Perkins. Dagashi Kashi starts, as these things so often do, when a mysterious and beautiful stranger walks into our hero’s life. In this case, our hero is Kokonotsu, (affectionately known as Coconut by his friends and family) an aspiring manga creator in a country town. His gregarious father, meanwhile, wants Coconut to take […]
December 18, 2019 · 5 comments
12 Days of Christmas 2019 – Update (18th Dec. 2019)
As we’re getting closer to Christmas we wanted to touch base to give a state of play on where things stand when it comes to our 12 Days of Christmas Sales. Now, obviously the sales themselves concluded on 12th December with our Mystery Box offer. But during the sales themselves and following the final day […]
December 18, 2019 · 0 comments
Japan Foundation Film Tour 2020
By Jasper Sharp. In customary fashion for the time of year, the Japan Foundation has just announced the programme for its annual touring film season to give us something to look forward to in these dark and joyless winter months. With 20 titles heading to 22 venues across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland between […]
December 15, 2019 · 0 comments
Divine Gate
By Andrew Osmond. Noriyuki Abe, the long – very long – serving director of Bleach, offers up the new series Divine Gate. Handsomely visualized by Bleach’s studio Pierrot, and based on a smartphone game, Divine Gate is the kind of anime that can look impenetrably complex when you look at some of its synopses online, […]
December 12, 2019 · 3 comments
Books: Otaku & Imagination
By Jonathan Clements. Patrick W. Galbraith’s Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan begins with an advert that depicts a man who is, in the words of Lawrence Eng, a “reluctant insider”, a slave of the rat-race who has an ace up his sleeve. Back in his bachelor pad, he has a virtual girlfriend […]