January 19, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Sneaked out this week by Concordia University’s Platform Lab, Anime Streaming Platform Wars might sound like an oddly business-focussed computer game, but is actually a fantastic academic resource on the modern anime business. Relatively short at just 34 pages, it corrals concise appraisals of the major players in the modern anime business, […]

January 18, 2022 · 1 comment

While – as our name suggests – our core focus has always been on anime, all of us here at Anime Limited are of course just as enraptured by other key elements of Japanese media culture. You’ve already seen us releasing vinyl soundtracks, from both our own music label and partners like Tiger Lab and […]

January 18, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Hayao Miyazaki, published to tie in with the current exhibition about the director at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, is a whopping big book. It’s a true coffee-table tome, a hefty oversized hardback of 288 pages. For some reason, the exhibition’s website claims it’s only 256 pages, but presumably it had […]

January 16, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. On one level, you can enjoy Fuse: Memoirs of the Hunter Girl as a cheerful period yarn about a perky girl who comes to samurai-era Tokyo and gets involved in an adventure with werewolves. It makes a very interesting comparison with Keiichi Hara’s Miss Hokusai; both films are set in 19th-century Tokyo, […]

January 13, 2022 · 0 comments

FIND YOUR VOICE WITH MAMORU HOSODA’S DAZZLING BELLE IN CINEMAS THIS FEBRUARY Experience the Oscar®-nominated director’s latest animated sensation exclusively in cinemas from 4th February 2022 ★★★★★  Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph   ★★★★★ Phil de Semlyen, Time Out ★★★★★ Stephen Kelly, SFX   ★★★★★ Kevin Harley, Total Film       ★★★★★ James Perkins, Starbust   […]

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 […]