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December 22, 2020 · 0 comments
Ride Your Wave: Director’s Notes
By Masaaki Yuasa. Up to this point, I’ve always had large casts in my work. That’s because I always had a desire to draw the entire World” of each piece. But in this project, Ride Your Wave, I thought it would be better to limit the number of characters to focus more on the characters’ […]
December 16, 2020 · 1 comment
Millennium Actress and History
By Jonathan Clements. The approach of the year 2000 was fraught with a sense of commemoration and closure. Various media tried to put a cap on Japan’s last ten turbulent decades. On television, for example, the TBS mini-series 100 Years: The Story of One Century (2000) would chronicle the experiences of a group of Japanese […]
December 13, 2020 · 0 comments
K the Anime
By Andrew Osmond. While much of the K franchise is available from Anime Limited, the first K TV series from 2012 has been sadly out of print in Britain for a long time – until now, with a spanking new Collector’s Blu-ray! That means we can follow K from the very beginning… Dec 13, 2020Jonathan […]
December 11, 2020 · 0 comments
Children of the Sea
By Kambole Campbell. When compared to the decompressed pace of a manga series, the film adaptation Children of the Sea could never feasibly provide all the answers a viewer might seek. With a script adapted by Daisuke Igarashi from his own manga, director Ayumu Watanabe was naturally restricted as to how much of the film’s […]
December 9, 2020 · 1 comment
Attack on Titan Season 2 soundtrack comes to vinyl
Following the release of the Season 1 soundtrack vinyl earlier this year, we’re delighted to announce that our upcoming Attack on Titan Season 2 Soundtrack vinyl releases will be arriving in February 2021! There will be Deluxe (pictured below) and standard edition vinyl versions available, plus a CD version too! Pre-orders for these will launch […]
December 6, 2020 · 0 comments
Planetes
By Andrew Osmond. Planetes is an anime space series that doesn’t have any giant robot suits. Nor does it have any aliens, androids, cyborgs, terraforming, telepathy, black holes, interplanetary empires, galaxy-spanning travel, chatty computers, cloning, time travel or freakishly gifted adolescents. Planetes is also widely hailed as one of the best science-fiction anime ever made, […]