Author: Jonathan Clements

September 25, 2015 · 0 comments

The director of Miss Hokusai talks of his aims and inspirations This film is based on the original manga Sarusuberi by Hinako Sugiura. Could you describe which aspects of the original story were more attractive to you? KEIICHI HARA As a matter of fact, I love all Sugiura’s works, and Sarusuberi in particular. When I […]

September 22, 2015 · 0 comments

by Chris Perkins. Despite being founded as recently as 2011, Studio Trigger’s modest filmography comprises some of the most talked-about anime of recent years. And a lot of the credit has to go to the studio’s co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi. Imaishi’s early career is intimately tied up with the latter-day success of Gainax. He got started […]

September 16, 2015 · 0 comments

By Hugh David. As academics argue about how to define the historical location of anime fans in the West – is it now five or six generations? The latest group seems resolutely uninterested in what an older generation thinks anime was actually all about. Call it a triumph of marketing, the smart use of existing […]

September 13, 2015 · 0 comments

By Meghan Ellis. Durarara!! was one of my most fondly-remembered anime of 2010, so when it was announced that the original light novels were being released in English, they were a guaranteed addition to the summer reading list. Despite some mishaps (Amazon delisting it multiple times in a bid to raise fans’ blood pressure, for […]

September 4, 2015 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. “I never thought I’d get to write so many episodes!” confesses Kimiko Ueno to a Manchester audience. Somehow she had ended up writing eight screen adventures for the irrepressible Space Dandy. “Maybe I just had the most time on my hands.” The recent Manchester Comic Con was unusual among British conventions in […]