Author: Jonathan Clements

March 8, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Takashi Tsumura saw it coming. He suggested that the “computer line” and the television might one day be combined. Moreover, in a “somewhat radical hypothesis” that the Japanese broadcast and phone companies might also combine, he suggested the “net” such a merger produced would have all the power and invasive persuasion of […]

March 7, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. Over the course of two TV anime series and one movie, Psycho-Pass has done plenty to explore its imagined dystopian future where the Japanese populace’s mental state is constantly monitored and checked for the slightest hint of criminality. But, for all of its efforts, there is still no shortage of other elements […]

March 4, 2017 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. If you have Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away to hand, look at a bit of the film about twenty minutes in. It’s after Chihiro has lost her parents, been saved and abandoned by Haku, and is descending to the bathhouse to look for the spider man Kamaji. You may remember the funny-scary scene […]

March 1, 2017 · 0 comments

By Roxy Simons. Ichie Minami (Miki Nakatani) doesn’t want anything to change. She’s determined to keep everything in her grandmother’s dress shop the way it was when the old lady was alive. The room looks the same, the clothes are all made from designs made years before, and she still uses the traditional pedal sewing […]

February 27, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Magic schools won’t go out of fashion in anime for a while yet. Harry Potter surely helped the proliferation of ‘magic school’ anime, and Absolute Duo tips its hat back towards England. One of its school’s main features is a massive clock tower that’s the spitting image of Big Ben, while the […]