Author: Jonathan Clements

January 28, 2016 · 0 comments

Jonathan Clements on the bistromathics of manga. Casey Brienza’s Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics reveals an ultra-modern publishing industry, exploiting the bleeding edge of digital ingestion and yet staffed by scattered freelance peons, some of whom literally sift through dumpsters for their dinner. Or is it, perhaps, a […]

January 27, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Just a few stops to the west on the Sagano line from Kyoto lies the suburb of Uzumasa, an entertaining but curiously overlooked destination for tourists with more than a passing interest in Japan’s pop-cultural heritage. It is the site of Toei Kyoto Studio Park, commonly referred to by the locals as […]

January 24, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Last December’s “Christmas Market” edition of the Hyper Japan festival brought over an anime director with a Santa-baffling CV, nasty and nice. On the one side, Naoyoshi Shiotani has helmed the Psycho-Pass franchise, blending horror, action and SF. He’s been with the title through the original 2012 series, its TV sequel (Psycho-Pass […]

January 17, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Jiaolong, (Zhang Ziyi’s character from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has suffered since the events of the movie. Her new-born son is stolen from her and substituted for a baby girl, and she ends up as a wealthy sword-for-hire in the desert city of Dunhuang, guarding Silk Road caravans and raising her adopted […]

January 14, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. One of this year’s Animated Feature Oscar nominees is not like the others. Inside Out is the only one that was a box-office hit in America, and the only one that more than 5% of the American public might have heard of. It’s also – let’s be honest – the sure-fire winner […]