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January 22, 2023 · 0 comments

George Takei’s Allegiance

George Takei’s Allegiance

By Helen McCarthy. Art is a time machine; it shows us other versions of history. The ones we like least are usually the ones we need to remember. George Takei, who made his name in Star Trek as the original Mr Sulu and went on to devote his life to activism, has been time travelling […]

January 19, 2023 · 0 comments

Books: She and Her Cat

Books: She and Her Cat

By Andrew Osmond. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself, three years before Voices of a Distant Star. It’s on Anime Limited’s edition of Voices and Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film shows the close […]

January 16, 2023 · 0 comments

Manga: Natsume & Natsume

Manga: Natsume & Natsume

By Jonathan Clements. There’s something not quite right about Natsume Shiranui. Sometimes he stands too close to people. Sometimes he doesn’t quite read the room right. He’s troubled by social anxieties, doesn’t seem to have got a lot of the memos that many of us take for granted about what is and isn’t socially acceptable […]

January 13, 2023 · 0 comments

Books: The Man Who Leapt Through Film

Books: The Man Who Leapt Through Film

By Andrew Osmond. When you get a coffee-table art book in English on anime, it’s almost always about Miyazaki or Ghibli. So it’s great to report that The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda, published by Abrams, is a really lovely coffee-table book. It’s big – 274 pages, 25 by 30 […]

January 10, 2023 · 0 comments

Manga: Blitz

Manga: Blitz

By Shelley Pallis. Teenager Tom is determined to impress Harmony, the queen of the class at his school, and the only way he can do so is by beating her at chess… which he first has to learn how to play. What could possibly go wrong? So begins Blitz, a light-hearted manga introduction to the […]

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