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The Bullet Train

The Bullet Train

By Tom Wilmot. There’s a bomb on the Hikari 109! Tetsuo Okita (Ken Takakura) and his band of blue-collar bombers attempt to extort money from the government, holding the lives of some 1,500 bullet train passengers to ransom. When the National Railway suggests stopping the train to check for an explosive, they learn that the […]

June 1, 2023 · 0 comments
Summer Ghost

Summer Ghost

By Andrew Osmond. The name Summer Ghost may sound oxymoronic to British viewers. We tend to associate ghosts with cold, dark months, as with A Christmas Carol and the BBC’s tradition of putting up scary spook stories over Christmas. Actually, Summer Ghost isn’t a frightening film as such, though it deals with fears, intense emotions […]

May 29, 2023 · 0 comments
Princess Jellyfish

Princess Jellyfish

By Andrew Osmond. Princess Jellyfish is an unusual name, which fits a most unusual anime. This eleven-part series is a sitcom that might turn into a romcom, in which the two main characters are a painfully shy girl with a passion for jellyfish, and a stunning princess who happens to be a boy (and the […]

May 26, 2023 · 0 comments
Books: History of Modern Manga

Books: History of Modern Manga

By Jonathan Clements. “The history of manga,” notes the back-cover blurb for Matthieu Pinon and Laurent Lefebvre’s new book, “is inextricably tied to Japan’s social, economic, political, and cultural evolution.” But the authors neglect to mention the real selling point, which is that their History of Modern Manga actually bothers to point out where those […]

May 23, 2023 · 0 comments
Books: Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

Books: Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

By Jonathan Clements. Tom Mes’s new book begins in 2022 with Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car winning an Oscar, followed by a flood of gushing articles about how it was going to “change Japanese cinema.” He notes that this relatively minor art-house film was never going to rock any boats in its native Japan, and […]

May 20, 2023 · 0 comments
Anime Limited returns to MCM London Comic Con this May!

Anime Limited returns to MCM London Comic Con this May!

It’s been a long time since we last attended MCM London Comic Con (October 2019, no less – can you believe it?), and to say we’ve missed you has been an understatement. But now the time has come for us to return, and we’re beyond excited to officially confirm that we’ll be attending London Comic […]

May 19, 2023 · 0 comments

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June 1, 2023 · 0 comments

The Bullet Train

The Bullet Train

By Tom Wilmot. There’s a bomb on the Hikari 109! Tetsuo Okita (Ken Takakura) and his band of blue-collar bombers attempt to extort money from the government, holding the lives of some 1,500 bullet train passengers to ransom. When the National Railway suggests stopping the train to check for an explosive, they learn that the […]

May 29, 2023 · 0 comments

Summer Ghost

Summer Ghost

By Andrew Osmond. The name Summer Ghost may sound oxymoronic to British viewers. We tend to associate ghosts with cold, dark months, as with A Christmas Carol and the BBC’s tradition of putting up scary spook stories over Christmas. Actually, Summer Ghost isn’t a frightening film as such, though it deals with fears, intense emotions […]

May 26, 2023 · 0 comments

Princess Jellyfish

Princess Jellyfish

By Andrew Osmond. Princess Jellyfish is an unusual name, which fits a most unusual anime. This eleven-part series is a sitcom that might turn into a romcom, in which the two main characters are a painfully shy girl with a passion for jellyfish, and a stunning princess who happens to be a boy (and the […]

May 23, 2023 · 0 comments

Books: History of Modern Manga

Books: History of Modern Manga

By Jonathan Clements. “The history of manga,” notes the back-cover blurb for Matthieu Pinon and Laurent Lefebvre’s new book, “is inextricably tied to Japan’s social, economic, political, and cultural evolution.” But the authors neglect to mention the real selling point, which is that their History of Modern Manga actually bothers to point out where those […]

May 20, 2023 · 0 comments

Books: Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

Books: Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

By Jonathan Clements. Tom Mes’s new book begins in 2022 with Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car winning an Oscar, followed by a flood of gushing articles about how it was going to “change Japanese cinema.” He notes that this relatively minor art-house film was never going to rock any boats in its native Japan, and […]

May 19, 2023 · 0 comments

Anime Limited returns to MCM London Comic Con this May!

Anime Limited returns to MCM London Comic Con this May!

It’s been a long time since we last attended MCM London Comic Con (October 2019, no less – can you believe it?), and to say we’ve missed you has been an understatement. But now the time has come for us to return, and we’re beyond excited to officially confirm that we’ll be attending London Comic […]

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