Category: Features
September 11, 2023 · 0 comments
Burn the Witch
By Andrew Osmond. Burn the Witch is a quick slice of action in a fantasy London with dragons and witches. It’s from the studio that made Penguin Highway and from the manga writer, Tite Kubo, who created Bleach. Actually, we should get the Bleach thing out of the way. As you might have read, Burn […]
September 8, 2023 · 0 comments
Levius
By Andrew Osmond. In Levius, boxing meets steampunk; or to put it in anime terms, Megalobox (or Tomorrow’s Joe) meets Fullmetal Alchmist (or Violet Evergarden). It’s a series by the Polygon CG studio, which many readers will know for its space opera, Knights of Sidonia. Like that series, Levius was produced by Netflix and first […]
September 5, 2023 · 0 comments
Tower of God
By Andrew Osmond. Tower of God originated with one young South Korean in the middle of his country’s military service. His experience was gruelling, but it didn’t shut down his imagination. Indeed, it may have helped fuel it.
August 30, 2023 · 0 comments
Gundam Build Fighters
By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Build Fighters is about a hyper-enthused little boy, so it makes sense it was directed by Kenji Nagasaki, who’d go on to direct a little series called My Hero Academia. It’s also the first Gundam to acknowledge that the franchise isn’t just about warfare, and catastrophe, and tragic rivalries. No, Gundam […]
August 27, 2023 · 0 comments
Garden of Words
By Tom Arden. Garden of Words was the last film that Makoto Shinkai made before he was boosted to blockbuster status by Your Name. Set in contemporary Tokyo, it’s the story of a schoolboy, Takao, who’s in the habit of walking through a park on wet days, when the rain gives a magic appearance to […]