All Posts: Page 28
June 4, 2023 · 0 comments
Liz and the Blue Bird
By Andrew Osmond. Liz and the Blue Bird was released in Japan in April 2018, less than two years after A Silent Voice. It was an ideal film for uniting two sets of viewers; those who’d become aware of Naoko Yamada through A Silent Voice, and those who loved the series she’d been involved with […]
June 2, 2023 · 0 comments
NEWSWIRE: June 2023 Pre-Orders
Hi folks! We hope you’ve had a great bank holiday weekend, and that those of you who made it to MCM London Comic Con are suitably recovered after a great time – it was fantastic to see so many of you come by our stand and attend our panels! If you didn’t manage to make […]
June 2, 2023 · 0 comments
Anime Limited MCM London Comic Con May 2023 announcements
ANIME LTD. ANNOUNCES THEATRICAL PLANS FOR “EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME”, “GREAT PRETENDER” HOME VIDEO, AND MORE THRILLING RELEASES AT MCM COMIC CON LONDON EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME (©khara); GREAT PRETENDER (© WIT STUDIO/Great Pretenders) Theatrical releases also planned for “MACROSS PLUS: MOVIE EDITION”, “The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes”, “THE FIRST […]
June 1, 2023 · 1 comment
The Bullet Train
By Tom Wilmot. There’s a bomb on the Hikari 109! Tetsuo Okita (Ken Takakura) and his band of blue-collar bombers attempt to extort money from the government, holding the lives of some 1,500 bullet train passengers to ransom. When the National Railway suggests stopping the train to check for an explosive, they learn that the […]
May 29, 2023 · 0 comments
Summer Ghost
By Andrew Osmond. The name Summer Ghost may sound oxymoronic to British viewers. We tend to associate ghosts with cold, dark months, as with A Christmas Carol and the BBC’s tradition of putting up scary spook stories over Christmas. Actually, Summer Ghost isn’t a frightening film as such, though it deals with fears, intense emotions […]
May 23, 2023 · 0 comments
Books: History of Modern Manga
By Jonathan Clements. “The history of manga,” notes the back-cover blurb for Matthieu Pinon and Laurent Lefebvre’s new book, “is inextricably tied to Japan’s social, economic, political, and cultural evolution.” But the authors neglect to mention the real selling point, which is that their History of Modern Manga actually bothers to point out where those […]