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October 3, 2022 · 0 comments
NEWSWIRE: October 2022 Pre-Orders
Now that October has snuck up on us, bringing the spectre of the spoopy season upon us too, we know that you’ve been nervously laying awake at night… not in fear of what’s in the closet or under the bed, but instead asking yourselves… what pre-orders to Anime Limited have coming up this month? Well, […]
October 3, 2022 · 0 comments
Atsuko Ishizuka Interview
By Andrew Osmond. This summer, I interviewed the director Atsuko Ishizuka in London about her new film Goodbye, Don Glees, which is screening at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival. It’s the story of three boys in a Japanese country village, who are falsely blamed for causing a forest fire. To clear their name, they […]
September 30, 2022 · 0 comments
Break of Dawn
By Shelley Pallis. In the year 2049, Tokyo teen Yuma is suitably blasé about all the technology that is supposed to help his life, particularly the irritating Nanako, a robot personal assistant who often seems like little more than a device for remote parental nagging. Yuma is particularly annoyed because there should be more to […]
September 24, 2022 · 0 comments
Seven Days War
By Shelley Pallis. Mamoru and Aya have known each other since they were six years old, but now they are awkward teens… well, he is an awkward teen, unable to express his true feelings for his childhood friend, and panicking now that she is about to move away. In a moment of weakness, he proposes […]
September 18, 2022 · 0 comments
Cucuruz Doan’s Island
By Andrew Osmond. The film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island goes all the way back to the start of the Gundam franchise. Gundam is like Star Trek; it may have had umpteen different iterations over the decades, but the original has a mystique that’s never truly equalled. In Gundam’s case, that’s the 1979 TV […]
September 12, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!
By Jonathan Clements. Nigella Lawson, Britain’s very own kitchen goddess, introduced the housewives of middle England to frankfurters marinaded and baked in honey and soy sauce, something that soon became a Christmas staple in my own house. She neglected to mention in Nigella Express, however, that this dish was something that Japanese-Americans had savoured for […]