Tag: anime
March 29, 2022 · 0 comments
Future Boy Conan & the Ratings
By Jonathan Clements. In a tongue-in-cheek reminiscence, Yasuhiko Tan, the NHK producer who greenlit Future Boy Conan over dozens of other possible projects, wrote of his interest in the show as if it were a deluded romance. Bewitched by the charms of the original offer, and over-awed by the appearance of the pilot episode, he […]
March 26, 2022 · 0 comments
BFI Anime Season
By Andrew Osmond. Next week, a huge two-month season of anime screenings rumbles into life at London’s BFI Southbank. Starting this coming Monday, it’ll run all the way through April and May; the screenings and booking links to the end of April are available at this page, and the May screenings go on general sale […]
March 23, 2022 · 0 comments
Music: Elfen Lied
By Shelley Pallis. It’s been eighteen years since the Elfen Lied anime finished on Japanese telly, but its imagery and music has become a staple of the anime fan scene, appearing in innumerable AMVs, and emo mixtapes, and also on a 2015 list of 38 anime officially banned in China. The music by Kaiyo Konishi […]
March 20, 2022 · 2 comments
Future Boy Conan
By Andrew Osmond. Future Boy Conan is the Hayao Miyazaki anime that few of Miyazaki’s Anglophone fans, even the ones who know the director’s films back to front, have seen. Which is a shame, because it’s great.
March 2, 2022 · 2 comments
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
By Shelley Pallis. More than twenty years after they were transported as children at a summer camp to a Digital World, the so-called DigiDestined are all grown-up. Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to […]