January 13, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Daisy Yan Du’s newly published collection Chinese Animation and Socialism: From Animators’ Perspectives focuses inevitably on the rise and fall of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), which might reliably be described as the beating heart of the Chinese animation community for much of the mid- to late twentieth century. Refreshingly, the […]

January 10, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The four Code Geass feature films being released by Anime Limited amount to a hybrid, a kind of hybrid that’s common in anime, but with an unusual twist. Let me explain, although many Code Geass fans can skim the next few paragraphs. Jan 10, 2022Jonathan Clements

January 7, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Most people looking at this review will be anime fans. But what does “British animation” bring to your mind? Probably Wallace and Gromit and Aardman. Then children’s favourites, be it Peppa Pig for millennials or older staples: Postman Pat, Danger Mouse, The Snowman, Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, Camberwick Green… Such children’s favourites […]

January 4, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Then she woke up, and it was all a dream. Or was it? The teenage princess Mia Luna Tearmoon vividly recalls being eight years older, over-thrown in a revolution, enduring three years in prison and eventually being marched out to the scaffold, to be beheaded by a guillotine in front of a […]

January 1, 2022 · 2 comments

By Chris Perkins. In 2021, after years of intense competition, the two biggest names in anime streaming, Funimation and Crunchyroll, officially became part of the same company. The Funimation Group acquired Crunchyroll from WarnerMedia’s Elation in a deal valued over $1 billion. Parent company Sony Pictures Television now has quite the impressive anime portfolio that […]

December 30, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. The novelist Alexander Key (1904-79) is best known outside anime fandom for Escape to Witch Mountain, the sci-fi story that has thrice been adapted for the screen by Disney. And it’s likely that the release of the Escape to Witch Mountain film in Japan in April 1977 had something to do with […]