Author: Jonathan Clements

May 27, 2015 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. As its WIT Studio anime adaptation picks up the pace with an eye towards its return for a second batch of episodes in the autumn, this seems like a opportunity as any to discuss the source material for Seraph of the End, available in print in English from Viz Media. A look […]

May 24, 2015 · 0 comments

Anthony Thomas on an educational app with a difference The Chinese language is notoriously difficult to learn. A colleague of the man behind A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, one of the first important works of its kind, noted that learning Chinese required “bodies of brass” and “heads of oak”. Yet, he managed to grasp […]

May 18, 2015 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley With Liden Films and Sanzigen’s anime adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan now airing in Japan (and streaming to the UK courtesy of Anime Limited of course), no doubt we’ll see some increased interest in the show’s source material, that being Hiromu Arakawa’s manga itself adapted from Yoshiki Tanaka’s on-going series […]

May 15, 2015 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley For fans of the works of light novel author Ryohgo Narita, 2015 is turning into an exciting year – his original Durarara novels are getting an official English release from Yen Press, a second season of the anime adaptation of that series – Durarara x2 – is airing over the next twelve […]

May 11, 2015 · 0 comments

By Ellis Tinios. Hokusai manga was one of the great publishing sensations of 19th-century Japan, issued serially between 1814 and 1878. After the opening of Japan to foreign trade in the 1850s not long after its creator’s death, it rapidly became the best known Japanese book in the wider world. Copies were circulating in Paris […]