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August 6, 2018 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In 2016, Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever released in China. That may explain the existence of the Japan-animated, Chinese-set Flavors of Youth (as the film is called on pretty much every Anglophone source online, so Brit readers will just have to put up with the American spelling). […]

August 3, 2018 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Hands up if Full Metal Panic! was among the first anime you saw. The first 24-part FMP series, introducing the tempestuously strong-willed schoolgirl Kaname and her schoolboy/soldier guardian Sosuke, was made back in 2002. It was followed a year later by the far lighter-hearted Fumoffu, while the action-orientated The Second Raid came […]

July 31, 2018 · 1 comment

By Raz Greenberg. 76 years after they were forced out of their own studio, a move that marked the end of their prominent role in the development of American animation, the legacy of animation pioneers brothers Max (1883-1972) and David (1894-1979) Fleischer is still alive and kicking, and nowhere is this legacy more evident than […]

July 30, 2018 · 0 comments

It’s been a little while since we brought you one of these postings, but for good reason as this week sees a nice selection of titles to add to your collection! We’re also going to be taking the opportunity to highlight some other titles you might want to check out that are also available now. So […]

July 28, 2018 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Ishiro Honda is an easy filmmaker to ridicule. Here is a man whose name, more by accident than design, looks set to be forever identified with a certain giant fire-breathing lizard, and by extension Japan’s entire home-grown strain of giant monster movies that followed in its wake, featuring men in rubber suits […]