Author: Jonathan Clements

October 30, 2016 · 0 comments

By Meghan Ellis. Continuing the trend of people telling us all about the untold history of Japanese things, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers by John Szczepaniak sets out to educate Western readers on the pitfalls and practices of the games industry in Japan. Taking the form of a collection of interviews following a […]

October 27, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke on a low-key movie about takeaway food and suburban life. Early morning. A man (Masatoshi Nagase) tramps heavily up fire-escape steps to look at the view from his rooftop, then down again and along the street. He goes through a little door into a small restaurant kitchen where he dons a chef’s hat […]

October 24, 2016 · 0 comments

Andrew Osmond interviews the co-director of Harmony. Michael Arias should need little introduction to readers of this blog. He’s most famous as the American director of the epic anime film Tekkonkinkreet, whose production was the subject of an in-depth interview by Jasper Sharp. Arias is also the developer of the Toon Shaders software, as deployed […]

October 20, 2016 · 0 comments

  By Paul Jacques. As a 12-year-old, I remember wandering the High Street in Mosley (Birmingham) and entering a martial arts shop. There wasn’t much I could afford, but I did buy a 50p pamphlet with a scratchy drawing of the human body, and an English translation on the “ancient Chinese martial art” of Dim […]

October 18, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. For all of the abject horrors that World War II brought to bear, it’s hard not to be fascinated by the war machines that were so instrumental in the fighting. While the First World War was largely won and lost by weight of numbers and boots on the ground, with a smattering […]