November 19, 2020 · 1 comment

This weekend (21st-22nd November) the second Cloud Matsuri online event streams completely for free at CloudMatsuri.com, via the power of YouTube! The event is completely free to tune into and is available to watch worldwide (excluding Asia). There is a lot going on over the weekend, but it’s not just about the panels being streamed. […]

November 17, 2020 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in colour, Warning from Space (1956) features peaceful, star-shaped aliens, one of whom transforms herself into a nightclub singer to make contact with Japanese scientists. Not that the aliens possess any discernible gender themselves, but the human likenesses into which they are transformed […]

November 11, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. One of the many mysteries in Promised Neverland, based on a bestselling Shonen Jump manga nearer Death Note than Naruto, is the enigmatic title. It might be a Peter Pan reference; after the first episode, you could understand the child characters not wanting to become grown-ups. Or you may see “Neverland” as […]

November 8, 2020 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. I am, above all, envious of Christopher Harding for coming with the idea for his new book in the first place – writers struggle to find ways to make history palatable and digestible for the general reader, and the very idea for The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives, is deceptively simple. […]

November 5, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond Demon Slayer’s hero is a boy, Tanjiro, in Taisho-period Japan – in other words, the reign of the Taisho Emperor (1912-26) – Japan’s “Edwardian” era. However, Demon Slayer often feels like a story of a much older Japan – centuries older, even. Tanjiro is visiting town to sell charcoal, which his humble […]

November 2, 2020 · 2 comments

It’s the start of the month and that means it’s time we give you a preview of what we have in the pipeline for releases coming specifically in December! Now, before we start, it’s worth noting that this isn’t everything you can expect from us in November – as I’m sure many of you aware, […]