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March 11, 2019 · 0 comments

Greetings one and all! Yes, I know what you’re all thinking… “Oh yeah, Anime Limited used to do new release posts all the time, when was the last time we saw one of those?” And yes, you’d be right to ask that, as we’ve been decidedly lax in dropping you reminders of our latest releases in […]

March 10, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Scotland Loves Anime in 2016 welcomed a first-time guest to Glasgow, Japanese animator and director Yoshimi Itazu. Since 1998, Itazu has worked on a wide range of anime, including such classics of the 2000s as Paranoia Agent and Denno Coil. On the period feature film Miss Hokusai, Itazu was both the character […]

March 7, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. In her new book, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s, Daisy Yan Du argues against the way that Chinese animation wants to see itself, so often presented as an entirely local, inwardly focussed realm that pays no heed to foreign markets. Particularly in the period under study, you might be […]

March 4, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Amanchu! is a portrait of female friendship; or, if you prefer, it’s one of the sub-genre of anime depicting “cute girls doing cute things.” It should be said that the first category of anime doesn’t collapse into the second, even if anime fans sometimes speak as if it does. You can like […]

March 1, 2019 · 2 comments

If you’ve been following us the past few years you’ll know that in collaboration with our friends at Bandai Visual in Japan we’ve given fans in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia the opportunity to order the Japanese Import Collector’s Edition sets of the Gundam The Origin and Gundam Thunderbolt films. Well today we’re excited to […]