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February 27, 2022 · 0 comments
Summer Days with Coo
By Jonathan Clements. Koichi Uehara (Takahiro Yokokawa) is the only kid in town who isn’t going somewhere exotic for the holidays. His friends are off to Hokkaido and Bali, but he’s stuck in boring old Tokyo. Even a trip to the grandparents’ place is hardly exotic, as they only live a few miles away in […]
February 24, 2022 · 1 comment
Anime Limited to release Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kizuna in UK cinemas
Anime Limited is pleased to present the theatrical release of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna in the UK GLASGOW, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 – Anime Limited is pleased to announce a special one day event screening of Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kizuna in partnership with Showcase Cinemas in the UK. The final adventure for Taichi, Agumon […]
February 21, 2022 · 0 comments
My-Hime
By Andrew Osmond. My-HiME, released by Anime Limited as a Collector’s Blu-ray, is a combo of post-Evangelion drama and school comedy. Most though not all of the characters are girls, and My-HiME has been also called a magic girl show, though these girls wield mecha monsters. Feb 21, 2022Jonathan Clements
February 18, 2022 · 0 comments
Yokai Monsters
By Tom Wilmot. Yokai have been a point of fascination for film fans for many years. The word Yokai in very general terms means “strange thing”, and is used to label creatures that have, according to folklorists, been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. These bizarre creatures have popped up in video games, […]
February 15, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: I Shall Survive Using Potions
By Shelley Pallis. And then she died. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey – a man in a toga who calls himself God shows up to tell Kaoru the Office Lady that she’s accidentally wandered into a spatial anomaly, and (sorry about this) she’d dead. Well, her body’s dead, his not-all-that-godlike powers couldn’t keep her from stepping into the […]
February 12, 2022 · 0 comments
Mighty Peking Man
By Shelley Pallis. Rushed into production in the wake of the 1976 US King Kong remake (and originally intended as a King Kong movie, before the rights proved less in the public domain than the film-makers expected), Mighty Peking Man’s original title in Chinese translates as the much simpler Ape King. And to be fair, […]