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September 12, 2023 · 0 comments

The manga artist Buichi Terasawa, who died on 8th September, enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in the 1980s, becoming popular just as his particular brand of lurid, violent sci-fi formed the fuel for the early 1990s boom in adult anime. He was born plain Takeichi Terasawa in Hokkaido – he would use the alternate […]

September 11, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Burn the Witch is a quick slice of action in a fantasy London with dragons and witches. It’s from the studio that made Penguin Highway and from the manga writer, Tite Kubo, who created Bleach.  Actually, we should get the Bleach thing out of the way. As you might have read, Burn […]

September 8, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In Levius, boxing meets steampunk; or to put it in anime terms, Megalobox (or Tomorrow’s Joe) meets Fullmetal Alchmist (or Violet Evergarden). It’s a series by the Polygon CG studio, which many readers will know for its space opera, Knights of Sidonia. Like that series, Levius was produced by Netflix and first […]

September 5, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Tower of God originated with one young South Korean in the middle of his country’s military service. His experience was gruelling, but it didn’t shut down his imagination. Indeed, it may have helped fuel it.

August 30, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Build Fighters is about a hyper-enthused little boy, so it makes sense it was directed by Kenji Nagasaki, who’d go on to direct a little series called My Hero Academia. It’s also the first Gundam to acknowledge that the franchise isn’t just about warfare, and catastrophe, and tragic rivalries. No, Gundam […]