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June 19, 2023 · 0 comments

Tunnel to Summer

Tunnel to Summer

By Andrew Osmond. In the film The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes (which has just won a prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival), a modern Japanese boy and girl are caught up in a new version of one of Japan’s oldest stories. It’s a kind of time travel story; it also […]

June 16, 2023 · 1 comment

Interview: Reiko Yoshida

Interview: Reiko Yoshida

By Jonathan Clements. “I have loved novels, films and animation since I was a child,” says scriptwriter Reiko Yoshida, “and I was hugely interested in the world of stories. But it was not until I graduated from university when I thought I would make a career out of it.” However, she wasted no time after […]

June 13, 2023 · 0 comments

A.I. in Anime

A.I. in Anime

By Andew Osmond. Anime’s first ever star was an A.I. character, Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. While the series stressed the boy bot’s Kryptonian-level powers – 100,000 horsepower, in Tezuka’s phrase – the anime also made clear his mind, his personality, compassion and principles are entirely artificial. Like most A.I. characters in anime, Astro Boy is […]

June 11, 2023 · 0 comments

Inu-Oh

Inu-Oh

By Jonathan Clements. They meet one evening on a bridge in Kyoto, like those two samurai heroes of old, Yoshitsune and Benkei, but it has been 200 years since those legendary figures fought in the war commemorated in the Tale of the Heike. Now, in the 14th century, Kyoto is a gutted, ramshackle ruin, worn […]

June 10, 2023 · 0 comments

Anime and A.I.

Anime and A.I.

By Andrew Osmond. John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, told a story about his first brush with computer animation. It was when he was a young animator at Disney, and fired up by the new technology; he wanted to make a hybrid movie with hand-animated characters and CG backgrounds. He pitched his ideas to the […]

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