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July 24, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. If it weren’t for Donald Richie’s and Joseph L. Anderson’s invaluable The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (1959), the first book-length study on the subject in the English language, or Richie’s monographs The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1965) and Ozu: His Life and Films (1974), one wonders what the state of overseas appreciation […]

July 21, 2017 · 0 comments

All The Anime Podcast #29 – Season 2, episode #7: “De-liquorice” [Recorded on 21st july 2017] Today join Jeremy, Kat, Andrew and Keith for another fun time of discussion that this week includes perhaps more business talk than there has been in recent weeks as we discuss in detail our upcoming release schedule for titles coming […]

July 21, 2017 · 3 comments

Chris Perkins on the history of Britain’s first anime magazine. In 2017, British anime fans wanting to read about their favourite medium are spoiled for choice. Be it print magazines such as Neo, MyM or Otaku USA from across the pond, or one of the numerous online sources, you’ve never had it so good. It […]

July 18, 2017 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith. What’s a Radwimps? Only one of the hottest bands from Japan right now, that’s what! I don’t mean it lightly, either. Radwimps have been huge for years, long before their songs ended up part of Japan’s second-highest grossing film ever, Your Name. Before the film’s release, all eight of their studio albums […]

July 16, 2017 · 0 comments

By Raz Greenberg. Eric Reinders’ The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki often feels uncomfortably detached from the director’s position in the world of anime. Instead, it places these works in another context, one with which religious scholar Reinders is more at home. Devoting a chapter to each of Miyazaki’s films, from Nausicaa to The Wind Rises, Reinders examines their […]