All Posts: Page 139
July 4, 2019 · 0 comments
Books: A Tokyo Romance
By Jonathan Clements. Poor boy that I am, when I arrived in Japan I did so knowing nobody and nothing – author Ian Buruma turns out to have the Hollywood director John Schlesinger for an uncle, and an oil-business bigwig with a Tokyo mansion for a “distant relative” in 1975. He also already has a […]
July 1, 2019 · 0 comments
Gun Gale Online
By Andrew Osmond. Despite its hefty name (this is anime!), Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online is a simple series. It’s an adventure-comedy with a central sight-gag; a pint-sized little girl in pink, dashing and leaping around her larger foes, shooting heads, cutting throats, and blowing up the survivors with grenades. Before you envisage […]
June 28, 2019 · 0 comments
Books: The Art of Nausicaa
By Raz Greenberg. With the release of The Art of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: A Film by Hayao Miyazaki, Viz has now published all of the art books that document the work on the Studio Ghibli films directed by Miyazaki – sadly, no art book has ever been published on his debut […]
June 25, 2019 · 1 comment
Books: Women’s Manga etc…
By Jonathan Clements. Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities seems at first glance like a grab-bag of buzzwords assembled to attract the attention of search engines rather than humans. The introduction by Fusami Ogi gives up on defining what manga actually means, and her colleague Kazumi Nagaike announces that “…the […]
June 21, 2019 · 5 comments
The Summer of Gundam begins here!
We know a lot of you have been patiently waiting for news on upcoming releases of titles from the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, and just a few weeks ago at MCM London Comic Con we revealed to attendees some details of what was in the works as Gundam celebrates its 40th Anniversary. But today we’re […]
June 19, 2019 · 0 comments
Books: The Bells of Old Tokyo
By Jonathan Clements. It’s not till late in The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time that Anna Sherman reveals that an art exhibit about Tokyo time was her gateway into Japan and the Japanese. Instead, we first encounter her in the middle of her new life in Tokyo, deciding seemingly on a whim […]