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Patema Inverted
By Andrew Osmond One of the century’s great philosophers sang that everything you know is wrong, black is white, up is down and short is long. Patema Inverted, by director Yasuhiro Yoshiura, confines itself to Weird Al’s middle axiom, that up is down. The heroine Patema begins in an underground world, falling ‘down’ a chasm […]
Akio Jissoji: The Buddhist Trilogy
By Jasper Sharp. It is a ballsy act for a company to put out a four-film box set of titles made almost half a century ago that have never had any form of home video release outside Japan, all made by a director whose name is unknown outside the rarefied circles of Japanese film specialism. […]
Books: Princess Mononoke
By Andrew Osmond. Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess functions as a 20th anniversary collection on one the most important anime of the late 20th century… but “important” to whom? Twenty years ago, Hayao Miyazaki’s film became an anime blockbuster, at least in Japan. In America and Britain, it had extremely limited cinema releases […]
Books: The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
By Jonathan Clements. “Senpai” adores the Dark-Haired Girl hopelessly. She has no idea. So he follows her around, for a whole year, hoping she will notice him. He tells you his story, but she also tells you hers, as they are slowly brought together in a magical city that once spent a thousand years as […]
Exhibition: Attack on Titan
By Andrew Osmond. Pictures by Carlos Nakajima.How will Attack on Titan end? In a time of serialised epic fantasies, Attack on Titan has been one of the canniest, throwing out massive story twists to shake the fans. You can revisit some of them next month with the Collector’s Blu-ray/DVD release of Attack on Titan: Roar […]