Category: Features

June 4, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. How do you stand out in the sea of comedy anime fare churned out every season? While Prison School’s animated adaptation was never going to have too much trouble making its presence felt visually thanks to its in your face presentation and premise, the answer from a broader perspective is a surprising […]

June 2, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Mai Mai Miracle may be set in 1955, but it’s about the endless now of childhood: summer days that last forever, liminal worlds of the imagination. For the kids in the film, a wheat field is the sea; all caves hide monsters; fish are magic and the coolest friends are the ones in your head. Nine-year-old […]

May 30, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The stop-motion My Life as a Courgette is not an anime film, but has one of the chief fascinations of an anime like A Silent Voice. It tells a story in animation that you couldn’t imagine coming from one of the big Hollywood studios. Also like Silent Voice, the story acknowledges the […]

May 24, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Eureka Entertainment’s dual-format release of Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master (1978) is the first time his breakthrough hit has been made available on Blu-ray. Dubbed, re-edited, cropped and bastardised in so many other ways during its various excursions outside its home turf, be they theatrical screenings, TV broadcasts or on VHS, the 4K […]

May 21, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. When we think of anime, we tend to think of long stories: sprawling TV series running for tens or hundreds of hours, or feature films longer than Hollywood animations – just compare the run times of Ghibli and Pixar films. Short stories are harder to market in commercial anime, though they keep […]