All Posts: Page 125
November 27, 2019 · 0 comments
Tokyo Ghoul
By Andrew Osmond. Good news, young man; your beautiful girlfriend wants to have you for dinner. It’s an old joke (especially for fans of cannibal superstar Hannibal Lecter) but it’s a fair summary of how Tokyo Ghoul opens. It’s set in what seems to be present-day Tokyo, with a big difference; the city is infested […]
November 24, 2019 · 0 comments
I Lost My Body
The hand stood up on three fingers and its thumb, and craned its forefinger like a long nose… Slowly the hand crept over the stones, searching. I Lost My Body, screening in selected cinemas before hitting Netflix on Friday, isn’t anime. But this outstanding French animation is the kind of film that pushes animation – […]
November 22, 2019 · 0 comments
Gundam Origin V & VI Coming to Blu-ray
2019 has certainly been one of the most active years for Gundam home video releases the UK has ever seen, but we here at Anime Limited aren’t done yet as the Gundam train will keep on rolling through 2020! You can expect more details in the coming months about what to expect next year on […]
November 21, 2019 · 0 comments
Interview: Studio Trigger
By Andrew Osmond. Studio Trigger’s romping spectacle Promare had its British premiere at the Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival, and three of the film’s key staff were on hand to present it. Hiroyuki Imaishi is Promare’s director; he’s been a hero to fandom since he helmed Gainax’s mecha series Gurren Lagann back in 2007, before […]
November 18, 2019 · 0 comments
Cowboy Bebop
By Andrew Osmond. Cowboy Bebop turns 21 this year. For those who’ve never seen it, the 26-part series chronicles the misadventures of a cluster of spacefaring bounty hunters, in a future that’s lurid, farcical and tragic by turns. It’s somewhere between Blade Runner, Futurama and Kill Bill (predating the last two). It has an iconic […]
November 15, 2019 · 0 comments
Books: Japanese Cinema Since 2000
By Jonathan Clements. Mark Schilling’s Art, Cult and Commerce: Japanese Cinema Since 2000 collates much of his writing from the last two decades, preserving it against future internet brown-outs and pay-wall enclosures. Conveniently going to print at the beginning of the Reiwa era, it is able to bring closure to the Heisei era that preceded […]