July 16, 2017 · 0 comments

By Raz Greenberg. Eric Reinders’ The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki often feels uncomfortably detached from the director’s position in the world of anime. Instead, it places these works in another context, one with which religious scholar Reinders is more at home. Devoting a chapter to each of Miyazaki’s films, from Nausicaa to The Wind Rises, Reinders examines their […]

July 14, 2017 · 0 comments

All The Anime Podcast #28 – Season 2, episode #6: “Having a big morty” [Recorded on 12th july 2017] Today the whole crew (A-Squad are we like to refer to it) is back together as Andrew and Jessica have returned from their travels to join Jeremy, Kat and Keith back in the office studio to discuss […]

July 13, 2017 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith. The hype behind Eden of the East was huge before its original release in 2009: a series directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama – whose CV includes the likes of the Ghost in the Shell series, Blood: The Last Vampire and Patlabor – and produced by Production I.G. So, imagine being that […]

July 10, 2017 · 1 comment

by Jeremy Clarke. Pulse aka Kairo (2001) has long been considered one of the key J-Horror films of the last generation, along with Ring (1998) and The Grudge (2002). It remains one of the two films for which director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is most highly regarded, along with his earlier Cure (1997). Jul 10, 2017Jonathan Clements

July 7, 2017 · 1 comment

All The Anime Podcast #27 – Season 2, episode #5: “I said canned laughter, not machine-gun” [Recorded on 7th july 2017] Andrew and Jessica are once again on assignment, so the podcast this week is brought to by the C-Squad of Anime Limited; Jeremy, Kat and Keith as they bring a fun (what somehow ended up […]

July 7, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Takashi Nakamura has worked in the anime industry for more than three decades, starting as an animator before moving into direction. Younger fans may know him as co-director (with Michael Arias) of the shocking, cerebral science-fiction film Harmony. But long before that, Nakamura was Animation Director on Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic Akira, and […]