Tag: Andrew Osmond

July 10, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This summer sees the resurgence of Studio Ghibli, as Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? opens in Japanese cinemas on 14th July. Ghibli articles, understandably, tend to be laudatory verging on hagiographies, running through the studio’s great moments of whimsy and poetry. But one part of Ghibli’s history gets pundits’ lips curling […]

July 4, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. As long as new fans are stepping tentatively into anime, there’ll always be a need for an up-to-date guidebook, helping them tell their moe from their mecha. There’ve been a great many English-language guides in the last three decades. At one end, the mammoth Anime Encyclopedia encompasses the whole medium. At the […]

June 19, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In the film The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes (which has just won a prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival), a modern Japanese boy and girl are caught up in a new version of one of Japan’s oldest stories. It’s a kind of time travel story; it also […]

June 13, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andew Osmond. Anime’s first ever star was an A.I. character, Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. While the series stressed the boy bot’s Kryptonian-level powers – 100,000 horsepower, in Tezuka’s phrase – the anime also made clear his mind, his personality, compassion and principles are entirely artificial. Like most A.I. characters in anime, Astro Boy is […]

June 10, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, told a story about his first brush with computer animation. It was when he was a young animator at Disney, and fired up by the new technology; he wanted to make a hybrid movie with hand-animated characters and CG backgrounds. He pitched his ideas to the […]