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February 7, 2022 · 0 comments

NEWSWIRE: February 2022 Pre-Orders

NEWSWIRE: February 2022 Pre-Orders

It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these – after our incredible Christmas sale, we’ve been beavering away in the background throughout January to start solidifying our 2022 plans, not to mention working hard to get Mamoru Hosoda’s magnificent new film BELLE into cinemas – don’t miss it on the big screen if […]

February 6, 2022 · 0 comments

Interview: Eric Wong

Interview: Eric Wong

By Andrew Osmond. In 2019, the architect Eric Wong was invited to make a world; the cyber-world of U in Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle. For Wong, that led to months considering twilight skies, linear spaces, and how to arrange sound speakers on the back of a flying whale. He discussed these questions with Hosoda online, but […]

February 3, 2022 · 0 comments

Belle and the Beast

Belle and the Beast

By Andrew Osmond. Nearly thirty years ago, Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast opened in Japan. That was back before Disney cartoons had simultaneous releases round the world; Beauty opened in Japan in September 1992, a year after its American debut, though a couple of weeks before it opened in Britain. Among the people […]

January 31, 2022 · 0 comments

In/Spectre

In/Spectre

By Andrew Osmond. Watching the series In/Spectre may put you in mind of one of the most prominent displays at the huge manga exhibition mounted at the British Museum in 2019. It was a massive curtain from a kabuki theatre, 17 metres long, created back in 1880. The curtain showed the kabuki stars of the […]

January 27, 2022 · 1 comment

Books: My Next Life as a Villainess

Books: My Next Life as a Villainess

by Jeannette Ng. Probably one of the most successful of the fast-growing “reborn as a villainess” subgenre of stories, My Next Life as a Villainess by Satoru Yamaguchi follows the misadventures of Katarina Claes as she attempts to survive as the bad girl in a dating sim. Having regained the memories of her past life […]

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