November 6, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Shoji Kawamori is best known as one of the main creators of the Macross franchise, as well as having a plethora of creative credits on other anime. I interviewed him when he visited London in September as a guest at the Barbican’s “Anime’s Human Machines” season. While I focused particularly on Kawamori’s […]

November 3, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. The kids are not all right. The kids are sickly and enfeebled, some of them barely able to walk, with brittle bones and dozens of allergies. They have been raised on poisoned milk and contaminated food, in a Japan without Tokyo – Japan’s capital city having been rendered uninhabitable by a disaster. […]

October 30, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anyone interested in world animation, and especially in how it developed in Asia, should check out an upcoming London screening of The Story of Hong Gil-Dong, a 52 year-old animated feature made in 1967. It’ll be shown at noon on Saturday 9th November at East Finchley’s Phoenix Cinema (you can book here; […]

October 23, 2019 · 0 comments

This weekend like many of you will be we’ll be making our biannual pilgrimage to London for the MCM London Comic Con event taking place at Excel London! Today this post will inform you about our activity across the weekend, along with our good friends at Crunchyroll and of course MCM’s Anime Guests of Honour! […]

October 21, 2019 · 0 comments

ALL THE ANIME PODCAST – 21st October 2019 “Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival 2019 – Judges Deliberation Special” [RECORDED ON 20th October 2019] On this edition of the podcast continue our annual tradition of bringing you a special episode that brings you discussion on the Judges Award category of the Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival, which […]

October 21, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. The latest book in the Asia Pop! Series, Teri Silvio’s Puppets, Gods and Brands, is a surprising, vivacious and convincing anthropology of animation, which places animation ideals and fannish philosophies at the very centre of modern times. For Silvio, the idea of imparting life into inanimate objects – of animating them – […]