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April 23, 2022 · 0 comments

Books: By the Grace of the Gods

Books: By the Grace of the Gods

By Shelley Pallis. And then he died. In his sleep, because of a particularly powerful sneeze. Ryoma Takebayashi wakes up at tea party in heaven with several gods, and accepts his fate with customary light-novel equanimity. A downtrodden salaryman in a dead-end job, he had seen many of his co-workers die from overwork and a […]

April 20, 2022 · 0 comments

Manga: Animeta

Manga: Animeta

By Jonathan Clements. It’s hard indeed to compete with the sort of granular detail and insight of Shirobako, but Animeta does a fine job from the very first pages, in which cynical staff at an anime company bicker over the poor quality of new hirelings. Facing a bunch of talentless drudges, the go-getting director Kujo […]

April 17, 2022 · 0 comments

Books: Eavesdropping on the Emperor

Books: Eavesdropping on the Emperor

By Jonathan Clements. In 1939, Japanese embassy personnel in London were ordered to destroy stacks of compromising documents, and made the mistake of hiring a local company called Tottenham Dust Destroyers. Explicitly told to burn crates full of books and papers and not to tell the police, the Dust Destroyers immediately did so, alerting MI5 […]

April 14, 2022 · 0 comments

Japan: Courts and Culture

Japan: Courts and Culture

By Helen McCarthy. Japan: Courts and Culture was originally scheduled to open in 2020. Like so many of that year’s best-laid plans, it had to be shelved. But the wait has been worth it. The exhibition is a refined, elegant and entrancing look at a centuries-long relationship between two island empires separated by “ten thousand […]

April 12, 2022 · 5 comments

BELLE comes to UK home video on June 27th

BELLE comes to UK home video on June 27th

Ever since so many of you came flocking to cinemas to watch Mamoru Hosoda’s incredible latest film BELLE, we’ve been flooded by people asking and speculating over when we’ll be bringing the film to DVD and Blu-ray for you to enjoy in your own homes. Well, today, we can reveal all… Let’s start with the […]

April 11, 2022 · 0 comments

Books: In Another World with My Smartphone

Books: In Another World with My Smartphone

By Shelley Pallis. And then he was struck by lightning, and it was a mistake, but it was too late, and he was dead. Well, that’s not a customer complaint that the Guardian is going to be able to deal with in a couple of phone calls. Fifteen-year-old Touya Mochizuki has indeed just been killed […]

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