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March 17, 2024 · 0 comments
Lupin III.6
By Andrew Osmond. Early in Lupin the Third Part 6, there’s an appearance of a bridge which Londoners will find familiar. Hungerford Bridge is one of the capital’s less showy landmarks, crossing the Thames between the South Bank and Charing Cross Station. There’s a central railway bridge and two wide footbridges either side – the […]
March 14, 2024 · 0 comments
Golden Time
By Zoe Crombie. Banri Tada is a bright young student at a private law school who has just finished convalescing from a fall he experienced after his high school graduation that left him with no memory of his life or relationships from before that moment. Fortunately, he finds a friend in fellow first-year student Mitsuo […]
March 11, 2024 · 0 comments
The Boy and the Oscar
By Andrew Osmond. Hooray, The Boy and the Heron has won! When it snagged the Best Animated Feature Oscar last night (sorry, Spider-Verse fans), it marked only the second Oscar victory for an anime feature film. The first time was twenty-one years ago, when Spirited Away, also directed by Hayao Miyazaki, won Best Animated Feature […]
March 9, 2024 · 0 comments
Tarako (1960-2024)
“Tarako” Isono, who died on 4th March, would often contend against the media’s assessment of her. Repeatedly in interviews, she would assert that she identified as a “singer-songwriter”, in spite of constant descriptions of her as a “voice actress”. But her career as a performer and lyricist, while manifold and long-running, was destined to be […]
March 8, 2024 · 0 comments
Akira Toriyama (1955-2024)
The manga creator Akira Toriyama, who died on 1st March, was cited by the editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump as being the prime catalyst in driving the magazine to its six-million circulation in the 1980s. The antic humour of his Doctor Slump (1980-84) and the sprawling, brawling sci-fi saga Dragon Ball (original series 1984-95) made […]
March 8, 2024 · 0 comments
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White – Coming to UK cinemas this April!
THE HOTTEST NEW ANIME MAKES ITS LONG-AWAITED BIG SCREEN DEBUT THIS APRIL IN SPY x FAMILY CODE: White Japan’s heartfelt and action-packed #1 box office sensation opens wide across the UK & IRE from Friday 26th April! London, UK, 8th March 2024 – Organising a family holiday can often feel like the world is at […]