Category: Features

September 9, 2017 · 0 comments

By Roxy Simons. A new century approaches, and the whole world waits in anticipation to see what the New Year will bring. Having suffered through not one but two magical wars, the god-like governing group the Novus Orbis Librarium (NOL) want to maintain their power, but the existence of the powerful warrior Ragna the Bloodedge, […]

September 4, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Early on in Mamoru Hosoda’s new film The Boy and the Beast, a child is whisked – dare we say spirited? – to a world of strange, magical beings. As the terrified boy rushes pell-mell through bright lights and food stalls, anime fans will think of a certain Ghibli film, and wonder […]

September 2, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Japan’s biggest global hit just got even bigger this year, as Your Name became the first ever anime to receive the IMAX treatment. The new giant-screen version premiered in Tokyo back in January, extending the theatrical shelf-life of a film that had already long ridden high at the domestic box office since […]

August 23, 2017 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Wind. Trees. Tall grass. A road barely discernible but for the occasional top of a hedge. A fluttering, white banner of a funeral procession moves imperceptibly across the landscape, a futile ritual for an unknown person. A room’s corner between two windows. Beyond them: wind and trees. Against the corner leans the […]

August 20, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. As a wise comic-book character once said, “It’s not all about you”. The main Tokyo Ghoul franchise, including the TV series available from Anime Limited and the live-action film released this summer in Japan, focuses on the adventures of Kaneki and his induction into the Ghoul realm. However, the series made clear […]