Category: Features

August 14, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Ride Your Wave by director Masaaki Yuasa is a romantic-supernatural drama about a young couple, their love for each other, the wonder of sea and surf, and the magic properties of water. It’s an unpredictable film, with crazy and heart-breaking story developments, and as such, it reflects Yuasa’s anime over the past […]

August 11, 2020 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. A comet threatens to destroy life on Earth. Three years earlier a religious cult attempts a ferry hijack. In the 1970s a punk band records and disbands before the Sex Pistols do. Welcome to the bizarre and quirky vision of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story (2009). As well as being the screenwriter of […]

August 8, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Here are ten “Easter Egg” references in anime’s coolest action series Cowboy Bebop, ranging from Bruce Lee to Hollywood classics, from Japanese folklore to Lupin the Third. Read on…

August 5, 2020 · 1 comment

By Jonathan Clements. After his classroom is disrupted by a girl with a nosebleed, Mr Kitagawa (Eiji Okada) comes to understand that many of the people in Hiroshima are still suffering the after-effects of the city’s atomic bombing seven years earlier. Although parts of the city have returned to relative calm, with volley-ball matches under […]

August 2, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Released in Japanese cinemas in 2010, Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer is the last chapter of the Gundam 00 saga. It most definitely assumes you know what happened in the two 00 TV seasons, and remember who most of the characters are. If you need to refresh your memory, Anime […]