Tamako Market
By Andrew Osmond.
Anime Limited’s release of Kyoto Animation’s Tamako Market carries both the original 12-part TV series and its cinema continuation, the film Tamako Love Story. It’s a tale of the title girl Tamako, her neighbours and neighbourhood, her family and friends. Like many soaps, sitcoms and slice-of-life anime, it offers the viewer a friendly, happy place to go, hanging with people you like with (usually) no great concerns. It’s Kyoto Animation at its sunniest. Continue Reading
Books: Chinese Movie Mags
By Jasper Sharp.
In these days of cosplay conventions and K-drama and Chinese sci-fi blockbusters on Netflix, it is easy to forget how little access to – and, let’s face it, interest in – Asian popular culture the West had for the vast bulk of the twentieth century. Not so in the other direction, however, as is suggested by the title of Chinese Movie Magazines: From Charlie Chaplin to Chairman Mao, 1921-1951, a glorious 288-page all-colour compendium of early movie magazine covers collected and curated by the Hong Kong-based Paul Fonoroff, which vividly evokes three decades of seismic cultural change in China. Continue Reading
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising vinyl soundtrack coming to All The Anime Shop. Pre-orders launch Friday 11th September 2020 at 12pm.
Following the recent news of our upcoming Attack on Titan Season 1 sound track vinyl release; us taking pre-orders for a Cowboy Bebop soundtrack vinyl produced by Milan Records; and the addition of a number of vinyl soundtracks (including Death Note) produced by Tiger Lab Vinyl, we've got more vinyl soundtrack news to share with you today!
We're excited to announce that starting this Friday (11th September 2020) at 12pm we'll be taking pre-orders for the upcoming My Hero Academia The Movie: Heroes Rising Soundtrack Vinyl produced by Milan Records at our AllTheAnime online shop!
Click on the link below to see the listing at our shop ahead of pre-orders launching:
View listing at All The Anime shop
Read on below for the details. Continue Reading
B the Beginning
By Andrew Osmond.
Early in the Production I.G crime series B: The Beginning, it’s revealed that a mark resembling the letter “B”, left by an elusive vigilante at his killing grounds, consists of multiple symbols overlaid on each other. Equally the anime feels like two, possibly even three different shows in messy but interesting collision.
A police team in a fictional, beautifully depicted European archipelago looks for patterns in random-seeming killings and terrorism. At times B feels like a straight cop/psycho thriller show, simulating live-action as Production I.G shows often do. But the realistic scenes wrap around fantastically “anime” antics, as superhuman youths in luminous makeup and nonsense costumes zip round the landscape. Continue Reading
Melancholic
By Roxy Simons.
“It’s dangerous to know something you’re not supposed to,” Kazuhiko’s boss at the local bathhouse tells him in Seiji Tanaka’s Melancholic. Feeling nosy over what is going on late at night at his workplace, Kazuhiko (Yoji Minagawa) decides to stake the place out, but quickly realises that there’s something far more ominous taking place than cleaning bath tubs: the yakuza are using the building for executions. Discovered by his stony-faced colleague Kodera (Yasuyuki Hamaya), Kazuhiko is given a choice – clean up their mess or join the recently deceased. Continue Reading