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Books: Animation in China
By Jonathan Clements. Although the title of Sean Macdonald’s new book is Animation in China: history, aesthetics, media, it keeps largely to an account of the group of animators and facilities that formed the nucleus of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1957. He has plainly realised that a little coverage of the pre-war Wan […]
Music: Unison Square Garden
By Tom Smith. An impenetrable bubble encases New York, trapping locals and monsters inside. The latter have been warped in from other dimensions and it’s down to a secret society known as Libra to try and keep the confined chaos under control. Thankfully, at the end of every 20-or-so minute outing in Hellsalem’s Lot, the […]
Brothers Conflict
By Paul Browne. When her father remarries, Ema Hinata finds herself part of a family house that features 13 brothers. Although Ema wants nothing more than a quiet life, the arrival of a girl in an all-male house sparks drama and possible romance (which works out well for everyone, because otherwise this series would come […]
Expelled from Paradise
By Andy Hanley. With Earth in ruins following a massive disaster, humanity has abandoned the planet along with their physical bodies, rebuilding their minds into an orbital data archive called DEVA. In the year 2400, DEVA’s central council detects unauthorised access. Someone on Earth is trying to hack into the system. To investigate the hacker’s […]
Aldnoah.Zero
By Hugh David. In an alternate 20th century, humans colonised Mars after the discovery of an ancient alien Hyper Gate on the Moon. But on the Moon, they found another ancient piece of tech, the Aldnoah, permitting the colonists to advance faster than the Earthlings they left behind. They came to see themselves as the […]