Category: Features

August 2, 2017 · 0 comments

Roxy Simons is here to save the day… If you could turn back time and stop an unforgivable tragedy from happening, wouldn’t you? Blessed with an unexplained ability he dubs “Revival”, Satoru Fujinuma often finds himself travelling five minutes into the past when something wrong is about to happen and he needs to fix it. […]

July 30, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. We all need to get away from the bustle of our everyday lives sometimes – maybe it’s simply to recharge batteries and creative energy…  or maybe we’ve just punched an old man whose been critical of our work. It’s this latter case which sees young professional calligrapher Seishuu Handa exiled to the […]

July 27, 2017 · 0 comments

By Paul Browne. With the world under the threat from the mysterious Penguin Empire, it’s up to secret organisation Prince Beauty Parlour and their giant robot Daimidaler to stop the Empire in its tracks. The imposing Daimidaler combats the mecha menaces that the Penguin Empire throws against the world. The only snag is finding the […]

July 24, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. If it weren’t for Donald Richie’s and Joseph L. Anderson’s invaluable The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (1959), the first book-length study on the subject in the English language, or Richie’s monographs The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1965) and Ozu: His Life and Films (1974), one wonders what the state of overseas appreciation […]

July 21, 2017 · 3 comments

Chris Perkins on the history of Britain’s first anime magazine. In 2017, British anime fans wanting to read about their favourite medium are spoiled for choice. Be it print magazines such as Neo, MyM or Otaku USA from across the pond, or one of the numerous online sources, you’ve never had it so good. It […]