September 17, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Princess Jellyfish is an unusual name, which fits a most unusual anime. This eleven-part series is a sitcom that might turn into a romcom, in which the two main characters are a painfully shy girl with a passion for jellyfish, and a stunning princess who happens to be a boy (and the […]

September 14, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Deiji Meets Girl is an anime that plays with anime formats and storytelling, in ways that may bewilder newcomers to the medium, though fans will latch onto the joke fast. The anime itself has been shown in different ways. It was first screened on Japanese TV as a series of twelve very […]

September 12, 2023 · 0 comments

The manga artist Buichi Terasawa, who died on 8th September, enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in the 1980s, becoming popular just as his particular brand of lurid, violent sci-fi formed the fuel for the early 1990s boom in adult anime. He was born plain Takeichi Terasawa in Hokkaido – he would use the alternate […]

September 11, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Burn the Witch is a quick slice of action in a fantasy London with dragons and witches. It’s from the studio that made Penguin Highway and from the manga writer, Tite Kubo, who created Bleach.  Actually, we should get the Bleach thing out of the way. As you might have read, Burn […]

September 8, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In Levius, boxing meets steampunk; or to put it in anime terms, Megalobox (or Tomorrow’s Joe) meets Fullmetal Alchmist (or Violet Evergarden). It’s a series by the Polygon CG studio, which many readers will know for its space opera, Knights of Sidonia. Like that series, Levius was produced by Netflix and first […]

September 5, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Tower of God originated with one young South Korean in the middle of his country’s military service. His experience was gruelling, but it didn’t shut down his imagination. Indeed, it may have helped fuel it. Sep 5, 2023Jonathan Clements