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June 1, 2022 · 0 comments
NEWSWIRE: June 2022 Pre-Orders
A new month is here, and June is a month with some big releases on our store, as our work on the likes of BELLE and Future Boy Conan finally come to fruition and make their way into your hands. It’s also a great month for cinema-goers (and cinema lovers), as Pompo the Cinephile arrives […]
May 30, 2022 · 0 comments
BELLE arrives on digital platforms from today
Having enjoyed the sensational BELLE in cinemas early this year, we’ve already seen no shortage of enthusiasm for our home video release of the film – don’t forget that you can pre-order our standard and Deluxe Edition releases right now! However, we know that some of you are equally excited to get a change to […]
May 29, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: Japan’s Carnival War
By Jonathan Clements. Many readers of this blog will be familiar with the boggling weirdness of Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, that animated oddity in which the child-hero from Japanese school textbooks is reimagined as a patriotic general, leading animal marines in an assault on foreign devils. But its not just the premise of Sacred Sailors that […]
May 26, 2022 · 0 comments
Totoro on Stage
By Helen McCarthy. When the Barbican and the Royal Shakespeare Company announced the stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro, with a new orchestration of Joe Hisaishi’s iconic score by Will Stuart and a hand-drawn title by Toshio Suzuki, it was obviously an iconic event in the annals of British theatre. What nobody could have predicted […]
May 23, 2022 · 0 comments
Love, Death & Robots S03
By Andrew Osmond. I’ve previously reviewed seasons one and two of Netflix’s anthology series Love, Death and Robots, and found it an interesting if erratic mix of adult animation and real SF. It was at its best when it transcended its origins as a sex and violence shocker. Standout episodes included “Zima Blue,” a post-human […]
May 20, 2022 · 0 comments
Emma: A Victorian Romance
By Jeannette Ng. Emma: A Victorian Romance concerns the relationship between the titular Emma and William Jones. The former is a shy, bespectacled maid working for Kelly Stownar, a retired governess, and the latter is a young man once taught by that same governess. He is also the first-born son and hence heir to a […]