Category: Features

July 14, 2022 · 1 comment

By Jonathan Clements. Twelve years after its first publication, the British Film Institute’s 100 Animated Feature Films gets burnished and buffed up by its original author, Andrew Osmond, in a new edition. This 2022 incarnation features a continuing decline from an America-centric cartoon view of the world, with American films still in the mix, but […]

July 8, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. In a refreshing change from all those light novels that begin with someone dying, Ameko Kaeruda’s A Lily Blooms in Another World has something different. On her nineteenth birthday, the sunny, auburn-haired lady Miyako Florence is summoned to a meeting with her betrothed, the wealthy nobleman Klaus Reinhardt, who curtly informs her […]

July 5, 2022 · 0 comments

By Tom Wilmot. Quirky Japanese comedies are a dime a dozen these days, so in order for one to truly stand out from the crowd, it needs to do something a little more unique. Such is the case for Zokki, a comedy-anthology based on Hiroyuki Ohashi’s manga collection of the same name. Helmed by a […]

July 1, 2022 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. There’s a lovely moment in El-Hazard: The Alternative World, soon after the characters, many of whom were whisked from Earth to a new world once already, are transported into an all-new world. These characters include Makoto Mizuhara, hero of the franchise, who was a Japanese schoolboy until not very long ago, and […]

June 28, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. The American-born composer Evan Call has become a particular favourite of Kyoto Animation, contributing scores to Tokyo ESP and Violet Evergarden, among others. But arguably some of his best work is now showcased in the double-disc collection of the original sound track from Kotaro Tamura’s Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, the […]