Author: Jonathan Clements

November 7, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This June an eye-catching TV advert debuted in Japan, promoting the humble cup noodle. The advert reinterpreted, of all things, Kiki’s Delivery Service. Technically, that’s not the same as a reworking of Studio Ghibli’s Kiki. Kiki was a book before it was Miyazaki’ed, and it’s had non-Ghibli incarnations as a live-action film […]

November 4, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In the afterword to his Your Name novel, now available in English from Yen On in hardcover and on Kindle, Makoto Shinkai says the book isn’t just an adaptation of his film. Rather, it was part of the film’s production process. The novel was written while Your Name was being animated, with […]

November 1, 2017 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. SPOILERS! This article discusses the end of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name. If you’ve not seen it yet, do not read on unless you’re really okay with knowing how a film ends in advance. And we honestly think that with Your Name, that would take away a lot of the viewing experience. So […]

October 29, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. From classic stories such as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Akira, through to something more recent like P.A. Works’ Charlotte, the sudden emergence of superpowers amongst teenagers has often had a deep-seated link the emotional turmoil of puberty. Against that backdrop, there’s something oddly refreshing about Tokyo ESP – this […]

October 26, 2017 · 0 comments

By Gianni Simone. After six difficult years in which it often seemed that it would never be completed, Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World finally came out last November, winning multiple prizes and even being nominated as film of the year by respected film magazine Kinema Junpo. All the Anime met the director […]