Interview: Yukari Takeuchi. Where is anime headed, post COVID-19...?.
By Gianni Simone.
Yukari Takeuchi, CEO of Seven Seas, LLC. Takeuchi is an entertainment industry veteran who for more than 30 years has been involved in many aspects of the animation business, from production and distribution to licensing and merchandising.
Anime Limited unveils BNA: Brand New Animal vinyl soundtrack. Arriving in October 2021.
Greetings everyone! The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that in our last Newswire looking forward to future titles, we hinted that we were close to being able to reveal our latest all-new vinyl release opening for pre-order.
The day has now arrived, and we're beyond excited to reveal that Anime Limited will be released the Original Soundtrack to TRIGGER's Netflix original series BNA: Brand New Animal as a Deluxe Edition 3x LP vinyl set in October 2021!
Our release contains both the opening end ending songs to the series as well as the full Original Soundtrack, so read on after the jump for all of the details!
Love, Death and Robots 2. The new season from Netflix goes for quality over quantity..
By Andrew Osmond.
Netflix has dropped a new batch of episodes of Love, Death and Robots, its anthology adult animation series of short stories mixing SF, horror and humour. Compared to its first season (reviewed here), it’s gone for quality over quantity, and that’s to the good. There are eight episodes, compared to eighteen in the first season. But six of the new ones are really good, and even the forgettable ones are technically excellent.
Books: Branding Japanese Food. A conspiracy at the highest level, involving soup..
By Jonathan Clements.
In 2013, the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe took the remarkable step of appearing on YouTube to talk about Japanese food. He was addressing the nation, and the world, about Japan’s unique culinary tradition, or washoku, as part of an effort to get it rated as one of UNESCO’s treasures of intangible cultural heritage. But as authors Katarzyna Cwiertka and Miho Yasuhara point out in their book Branding Japanese Food, Abe was spinning a ridiculous yarn. Japan had been prompted, somewhat belatedly, into bigging up its classier cuisine after French food had received a UNESCO nod.
The Future Diary. In the Game of Phones, you win or you die..
By Andrew Osmond.
Mirai Nikki (The Future Diary) is a death game anime, in which the gamemaster is God Himself. Well, he calls himself Deus Ex Machina, and he looks like a giant-sized skeleton, but he still seems to be the right chap. He oversees a wild tournament, involving murder, torture, explosions, severed heads, decayed bodies – in short, this isn’t Ludo. You win or you die, probably very painfully and messily.