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The End of Your Name
By Andrew Osmond. SPOILERS! This article discusses the end of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name. If you’ve not seen it yet, do not read on unless you’re really okay with knowing how a film ends in advance. And we honestly think that with Your Name, that would take away a lot of the viewing experience. So […]
Tokyo ESP
By Andy Hanley. From classic stories such as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Akira, through to something more recent like P.A. Works’ Charlotte, the sudden emergence of superpowers amongst teenagers has often had a deep-seated link the emotional turmoil of puberty. Against that backdrop, there’s something oddly refreshing about Tokyo ESP – this […]
Interview: Sunao Katabuchi
By Gianni Simone. After six difficult years in which it often seemed that it would never be completed, Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World finally came out last November, winning multiple prizes and even being nominated as film of the year by respected film magazine Kinema Junpo. All the Anime met the director […]
Books: Early Japanese Animation
By Jonathan Clements. When the first edition of The Anime Encyclopedia was published in 2001, the early days of Japanese animation were murky and ill-defined, a matter largely of hearsay and rumour. In the years since, the ongoing digital ingestion of archival materials has thrown increasing amounts of light on the period, and Frederick Litten’s […]
Castle Town Dandelion
By Roxy Simons. The Sakurada family aren’t exactly what you’d call a typical royal family. Blessed with supernatural abilities, the nine children are determined to live normal lives, well… as normal as you can expect it when they’re constantly on camera or campaigning to win the throne through a public election. It’s not easy to […]