Category: Features

November 26, 2017 · 3 comments

Interview: Satoshi Kon

Interview: Satoshi Kon

Minor-league pop idol Mima ditches her girl group to become a solo artist and serious actress. When her managers push her towards sleazy “grown-up” roles, one self-styled avid fan exacts deadly retribution for the loss of her schoolgirl image, in a tense drama of suspense and murder. A fierce spotlight turned on the world of […]

November 23, 2017 · 0 comments

Durarara!!x2: Ten

Durarara!!x2: Ten

By Andrew Osmond. For the benefit of newbies to this franchise, Durarara!!x2: Ten is not where you want to start. This release is effectively volume three of a madcap crime-comedy-fantasy series set in modern Tokyo, with a headless faerie biker and an army of Anonymous keyboard warriors. All the earlier episodes are available from Anime […]

November 20, 2017 · 0 comments

Black Butler Music: AKIRA

Black Butler Music: AKIRA

By Tom Smith. Fashion and music often go hand-in-hand (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and 6%DOKIDOKI, Kanye West and Yeezus, Lady Gaga and steak), but Black Butler end theme provider AKIRA takes it one step further by being involved in anime, too; the holy trifecta of Japan’s entertainment industry. She’s appeared on the cover of alternative fashion […]

November 13, 2017 · 0 comments

Books: Ambient Media

Books: Ambient Media

By Jasper Sharp. Studies of Japan’s media have predominantly focused on commercial cultural products such as anime, manga, film, music and literature, while sidestepping the provocative notion that, with its variegated patchwork of sounds, flashing lights and screens that play such a key role in defining the moods and tempos of its distinct urban areas, […]

November 10, 2017 · 0 comments

Ajin: Demi-Human

Ajin: Demi-Human

By Andrew Osmond. Based on a red-hot manga by Gamon Sakurai, Ajin is part of the resurgence of horror anime which began with the world-beating Attack on Titan. The protagonist is Kei Nagi, a withdrawn Japanese schoolboy. He lives in a present-day Japan, but with a tweaked history; seventeen years ago, a number of ‘Ajin’ […]

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