Tag: Andrew Osmond

October 5, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Dolls, dogs, gods, children and their relationships with neurotically self-conscious humanity come under philosophical investigation in Mamoru Oshii’s sequel to his film, Ghost in the Shell. Rendered in a blend of drawn and computer animation, the sequel’s first half looks like a sleekly beautiful variant on the future-noir aesthetic of Blade Runner, […]

September 20, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. For some fans, G Gundam is the series with a giant robot that looks like an American footballer, complete with shoulder pads. Or maybe it’s the show with the British Gundam (“John Bull Gundam”) that looks like a Beefeater, or the Canadian Gundam (“Lumber Gundam”) that wields twin axes. Or the Chinese […]

September 17, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Princess Jellyfish is an unusual name, which fits a most unusual anime. This eleven-part series is a sitcom that might turn into a romcom, in which the two main characters are a painfully shy girl with a passion for jellyfish, and a stunning princess who happens to be a boy (and the […]

September 14, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Deiji Meets Girl is an anime that plays with anime formats and storytelling, in ways that may bewilder newcomers to the medium, though fans will latch onto the joke fast. The anime itself has been shown in different ways. It was first screened on Japanese TV as a series of twelve very […]

September 11, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Burn the Witch is a quick slice of action in a fantasy London with dragons and witches. It’s from the studio that made Penguin Highway and from the manga writer, Tite Kubo, who created Bleach.  Actually, we should get the Bleach thing out of the way. As you might have read, Burn […]