Author: Jonathan Clements

October 28, 2015 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Moving to a new town and a new school, sparky teenager Tetsuko Arisugawa (“Alice”) is still getting used to her new surname after her parents’ divorce. Dad is a charmer but a loser in life; Mum is a flaky author with a habit of dramatising their private life for profit. Meanwhile, her […]

October 25, 2015 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Rayna Denison chooses her title with robust caution: her new book, Anime: A Critical Introduction, is an introduction for and occasionally about critics, examining the arguments and materials with which readers can approach Japanese animation. Her new book is part of Bloomsbury’s “Film Genres” series, although she swiftly establishes cast-iron criteria for […]

October 22, 2015 · 0 comments

by Chris Perkins. 24th August 2010 was a dark day for anime, and indeed for fans of quality cinema in general. On that day Satoshi Kon, one of the brightest lights in the animation scene, passed away at the tragically young age of 46. He left behind a small but perfectly formed filmography comprising just […]

October 19, 2015 · 0 comments

By Raz Greenberg. It’s been five years since the shocking news of Satoshi Kon’s death, and the animation world is still mourning. The news that there’s nothing more coming from one of the man who directed innovative works as Perfect Blue and in his short lifetime managed to influence significant works by leading directors as […]

October 16, 2015 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. “I want to see more relaxed animation coming from Japan,” Ping Pong director Masaaki Yuasa told twitch.com. “Animation where everything is not so perfectly drawn. The strict way it looks now, it sometimes seems like working on anime is more pain than pleasure! I prefer to have joy in making animation.” Ping […]