November 17, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. The clickbaity title of Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer suggests the reader might be letting themselves in for some sort of mystery or police procedural, but the opening pages soon dispel that notion. The titular “seatmate killer” is not some creep with an ice pick and a Boris Johnson mask, […]

November 14, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Inside Mari begins with a seemingly simple bodyswap where Isao Komori, a depressed shut-in and college dropout wakes up in the body of Mari Yoshizaki, the teenage girl he has been pining after. But instead of silly misunderstandings and even sillier shenanigans that that premise implies — Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name or […]

November 11, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Atom: The Beginning is a marvellous experiment in retro manga, a retelling of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy in prequel form, narrating all the back-story and build-up that is only hinted at in the original. In this new version, written by Masami Yuuki and drawn by Tetsuro Kasahara, big-nosed incel Hiroshi Ochanomizu and […]

November 8, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. In Natsumi Ito’s My Dear Detective, Mitsuko Hoshino is a go-getting, no-nonsense detective, a woman in a man’s world, repeatedly clearing cases faster than anyone else, even as her superiors and colleagues mutter that women in the workplace is just a passing fad. She cuts a dash through 1930s Tokyo, moving among […]

November 3, 2022 · 0 comments

Let’s talk films… but beware, spoilers lurk! Andy Hanley is joined by Scotland Loves Anime festival jury chairman Jonathan Clements, and juror Kambole Campbell, to talk about the films in competition for this year’s prestigious jury award. Does Blue Thermal soar? Does the Tunner to Summer take a U-turn? Will you want to say Goodbye […]

November 2, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anime fans coming to the made-for-video episodes of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor after watching the Tylor TV show might wonder what they were in for. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, it was common for anime franchises to be adapted between formats – TV episodes, video episodes and movies. But they […]