Tag: Andrew Osmond

February 21, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. My-HiME, released by Anime Limited as a Collector’s Blu-ray, is a combo of post-Evangelion drama and school comedy. Most though not all of the characters are girls, and My-HiME has been also called a magic girl show, though these girls wield mecha monsters.

February 6, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In 2019, the architect Eric Wong was invited to make a world; the cyber-world of U in Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle. For Wong, that led to months considering twilight skies, linear spaces, and how to arrange sound speakers on the back of a flying whale. He discussed these questions with Hosoda online, but […]

February 3, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Nearly thirty years ago, Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast opened in Japan. That was back before Disney cartoons had simultaneous releases round the world; Beauty opened in Japan in September 1992, a year after its American debut, though a couple of weeks before it opened in Britain. Among the people […]

January 31, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Watching the series In/Spectre may put you in mind of one of the most prominent displays at the huge manga exhibition mounted at the British Museum in 2019. It was a massive curtain from a kabuki theatre, 17 metres long, created back in 1880. The curtain showed the kabuki stars of the […]

January 16, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. On one level, you can enjoy Fuse: Memoirs of the Hunter Girl as a cheerful period yarn about a perky girl who comes to samurai-era Tokyo and gets involved in an adventure with werewolves. It makes a very interesting comparison with Keiichi Hara’s Miss Hokusai; both films are set in 19th-century Tokyo, […]