Category: Features

January 31, 2023 · 0 comments

Books: Tatami Galaxy

Books: Tatami Galaxy

By Tom Wilmot. Any mention of The Tatami Galaxy usually brings to mind Masaaki Yuasa’s much-loved 2010 anime. The charming series has become something of a modern classic, sporting Yuasa’s trademark visuals while touching the hearts of audiences. The anime is an adaptation of the 2004 varsity novel of the same name by prize-winning Japanese […]

January 28, 2023 · 0 comments

Interview: Sawao Yamanaka

Interview: Sawao Yamanaka

By Andrew Osmond. For the benefit of readers who discovered your band, the pillows, through the music on FLCL, which pillows albums would you especially recommend as a way to understand how your music has changed and evolved over the years?  How about our best album Fool on the planet? I think that could be a […]

January 25, 2023 · 0 comments

Japan Foundation Tour 2023

Japan Foundation Tour 2023

by Jeremy Clarke. This year’s Japan Foundation (JPF) Touring Programme, which runs throughout February and March and is celebrating its 20th edition, contains three manga-related live-action films and one anime. With screening venues spread widely over the UK, it covers the following two dozen UK cities: Aberystwyth, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chester, Colchester, Coventry, […]

January 22, 2023 · 0 comments

George Takei’s Allegiance

George Takei’s Allegiance

By Helen McCarthy. Art is a time machine; it shows us other versions of history. The ones we like least are usually the ones we need to remember. George Takei, who made his name in Star Trek as the original Mr Sulu and went on to devote his life to activism, has been time travelling […]

January 19, 2023 · 0 comments

Books: She and Her Cat

Books: She and Her Cat

By Andrew Osmond. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself, three years before Voices of a Distant Star. It’s on Anime Limited’s edition of Voices and Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film shows the close […]

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