Tag: Andrew Osmond

January 28, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. For the benefit of readers who discovered your band, the pillows, through the music on FLCL, which pillows albums would you especially recommend as a way to understand how your music has changed and evolved over the years?  How about our best album Fool on the planet? I think that could be a […]

January 19, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself, three years before Voices of a Distant Star. It’s on Anime Limited’s edition of Voices and Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film shows the close […]

January 13, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. When you get a coffee-table art book in English on anime, it’s almost always about Miyazaki or Ghibli. So it’s great to report that The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda, published by Abrams, is a really lovely coffee-table book. It’s big – 274 pages, 25 by 30 […]

December 31, 2022 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. When this blog last presented a rundown of anime streaming titles this time last year, Crunchyroll had been recently acquired by the Funimation Group. Well, what a difference a year makes. Crunchyroll’s the name now, baby. In March, it was announced that Funimation’s animation library would be transferring to Crunchyroll en masse, […]

December 26, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Last year saw Ghibliotheque: The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli, a book by the hosts of the popular Ghibliotheque podcast, which I reviewed here. Now, authors Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham have ventured beyond Ghibli with The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide.