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April 12, 2016 · 0 comments
Books: Christ’s Samurai
Andrew Osmond on the true story of the Shimabara Rebellion. Christ’s Samurai by Jonathan Clements tells two stories, one enfolded within the other. The broader story is that of Christianity in Japan, beginning with the first missionaries to the country in the sixteenth century, their early success in winning converts (especially on the southern Japanese […]
April 10, 2016 · 0 comments
Hiroyuki Okiura: The Story So Far
Andy Hanley on the director of Letter to Momo. When it comes to well-known anime film directors, it’s easy to pigeon-hole them in the expectation that their works will adhere to a particular genre or style – mention Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda or Makoto Shinkai, and most fans of the medium will instantly be able […]
April 7, 2016 · 0 comments
The World of Japanese Girls’ Comics
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood looks for the mojo in shojo. The touring exhibition of shojo manga, which finishes its run at London’s House of Illustration in June, is not so much about comics as about the shojo aesthetic. The exhibition presents a world of slender, beautiful men, of flowers, of soft-edged pastels. If you knew nothing of […]
April 4, 2016 · 0 comments
Inside AnimeJapan 2016
Andy Hanley finds out if it really is bigger in Japan… If you’ve ever been to one of the MCM Comic Cons dotted around the UK, then you know what it’s like to share a busy event show floor with lots of like-minded individuals. You may even have travelled further afield, perhaps to Paris’ vast […]
April 1, 2016 · 6 comments
Anime Limited to release Your Lie in April in the UK
Today we (Anime Limited) are happy to announce that we will be bringing the series Your lie in April to the United Kingdom on both Blu-ray and DVD. And no this isn’t a April fools joke, Synopsis: Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother’s sudden death took away his ability to play. Ever […]
April 1, 2016 · 0 comments
Kurosawa’s Ran
Andrew Osmond revisits a restored classic. In 1985, Akira Kurosawa released his last epic film, Ran (meaning “Chaos”). The Japanese-French co-production was inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear but it transposed the tragedy to the lost Japan of many Kurosawa classics, of violent swordplay, doomed heroes and harsh morality. Such films – Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne […]