Category: Features
August 1, 2022 · 1 comment
Books: The Characters Taught Me Everything
By Jonathan Clements. Megumi Hayashibara is an observant and empathetic narrator, walking the reader through her early years as a nobody struggling to finish nursing school while burning the night-oil on a bunch of freelance recording contracts as an anime voice actor. She is stereotypically Japanese about the need for apprenticeships and a pecking order, […]
July 29, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: If It’s for My Daughter I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord
By Shelley Pallis. Dale is on his way home from a grotty mission – purging the forest of frog monsters, which should have been simple, but has left him covered in gunge. And as he scrapes ranine snot off his clothes and body, and bemoans the fate of the low-level adventurer, he realises that someone […]
July 26, 2022 · 0 comments
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
By Tom Wilmot. Nearly fifty years after he re-emerged from the jungle, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda remains a fascinating and controversial figure. The World War II soldier famously surrendered in 1974, having held out on the small Filipino island of Lubang for the better part of thirty years, convinced that Japan’s conflict with the Allies was […]
July 23, 2022 · 2 comments
Voicing Violet Evergarden
By Andrew Osmond. American voice actress Erika Harlacher has had a multi-faceted career through the last decade, including a host of game roles: Ann Takami in Persona 5 and the bard Venti in Genshin Impact. In anime, her major parts include the vengeful boy Kurapika in Hunter x Hunter (the 2011 TV series); Shinobu in […]
July 20, 2022 · 0 comments
Red Angel
by Jeremy Clarke. An army nurse is sent to China in director Yasuzo Masumura’s Red Angel (1966). Or as a slogan in one of the film’s trailers puts it, “on the battlefield where life and death is decided.”