Category: Features
January 24, 2018 · 0 comments
Live Undead! Tokyo Ghoul
By Andrew Osmond. The 2010s have been the decade of dark transformations in anime. There were monstrous metamorphoses in the decade’s most iconic manga franchise, Attack on Titan, but such elements have also motored three more horror stories, fables of extreme alienation, which all start the same way. A youth living a normal life in […]
January 21, 2018 · 0 comments
When the Wind Blows
By Andrew Osmond. “They say it’s the correct thing to wear white. People in Hiroshima with patterned clothes got burned where the patterns was and not so much on the white bits. Even the buttons showed up.” “Yes, but they were Japanese.” In the late 1980s, two unusual animated films were released aimed at adults; […]
January 18, 2018 · 1 comment
Assassination Classroom S2
By Andy Hanley. Assuming you’ve made it through to the end of Keiji Gotoh’s Assassination Classroom’s first series in one piece, you’d be forgiven for needing some time to regain your composure after the tumultuous events that closed it. Having seen the octopus-like alien Koro-sensei come close to defeat at the hands of his students, […]
January 15, 2018 · 0 comments
Books: Yoko Kanno
By Jonathan Clements. “I think it’s time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. Okay: 3-2-1, let’s jam.” Admit it, you’re already hearing those brass notes as the theme song kicks in. As Rose Bridges argues in her lively, smart and revealing book Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack, it’s the music that […]
January 12, 2018 · 0 comments
Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions
By Andy Hanley. Although it was hardly the first of its breed, the success of Sword Art Online in both its original light novel and later anime adaptation form has seen an explosion of stories based around a similar concept – being trapped in a video game world, usually based around the settings and mechanics […]