Tag: Andrew Osmond

October 9, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In Penguindrum, a dorky penguin hat – that’s a hat that looks like a penguin, not one made out of penguins – brings a beautiful girl back to life. This miracle starts an adventure that’s insanely odd even by the standards of anime. The girl is Himari Takakura, the angelic sister of […]

October 6, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Naoko Yamada is the best-known female director in anime. Most of her directing credits are for TV series made at Kyoto Animation, where she spent most of her career. Her breakout was on K-ON! in 2009. Following that hit, she directed Tamako Market (2013) and Sound! Euphonium (2015), the latter as “series […]

October 3, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This summer, I interviewed the director Atsuko Ishizuka in London about her new film Goodbye, Don Glees, which is screening at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival. It’s the story of three boys in a Japanese country village, who are falsely blamed for causing a forest fire. To clear their name, they […]

September 18, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island goes all the way back to the start of the Gundam franchise. Gundam is like Star Trek; it may have had umpteen different iterations over the decades, but the original has a mystique that’s never truly equalled. In Gundam’s case, that’s the 1979 TV […]

September 9, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Seed Destiny is the direct sequel to the earlier series Gundam Seed, which was covered on this blog here. Like the previous series, Destiny was created by Mitsuo Fukuda (director) and his wife Chiaki Morosawa (lead writer). It sees the return of several of the first Seed’s characters, though they’re joined […]