Category: Features

December 11, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The Cardcaptor Sakura anime debuted in April 1998, two years after the manga started in Nakayoshi. It ran for 70 episodes, with two season breaks, and ended in March 2000, three months before the manga finished. Cardcaptor was animated by the Madhouse studio, which foreign fans associated with adult fare such as […]

December 10, 2021 · 1 comment

The writer Keiko Nobumoto, who died on 1st December from oesophageal cancer, was one of the stand-out figures of the anime world, quite possibly because her path to it was so unorthodox. Born in Hokkaido, she first studied to be a nurse in her hometown of Asahikawa, and spent the first few months of her […]

December 10, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Blood-C is a part – undoubtedly the most controversial part – of the Blood franchise, about a girl named Saya who fights monsters with a sword. Blood-C is a reboot, a reimagining, which means you don’t have to have seen any of the other versions. It consists of a 12-part TV series, […]

December 9, 2021 · 3 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Boogiepop Phantom is a teenage Twilight Zone. Contrary to popular anime depictions, being an adolescent in Japan isn’t all comedic love triangles, eccentric school clubs and wild beach vacations. It can be numbing, depressing, achingly lonely and aridly meaningless. In the deepest funk of teenage night, where everything seems weird and alien, […]

December 8, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Look out! You’ve just been whisked to a far-off planet peopled by exotic beauties, where magic really works and alien invaders threaten paradise. Now’s your chance to right wrongs, fight mighty battles and smite your enemies before winning the hand of a beautiful princess. So what’s the catch? Well, some bright spark […]