Tag: Andrew Osmond

September 6, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This blog frequently highlights the fact that many Gundam anime are designed to be accessible to newcomers. Gundam NT, quite honestly, isn’t one of them. Firstly, the film’s very much a sequel to the lavish series Gundam Unicorn, which is a good starting point for newbies, covered on the blog here. Gundam […]

August 31, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The Ghibliotheque podcast started in 2018, and soon became an institution. It offered a journey through the films of Studio Ghibli, presented by Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham. Leader was a paid-up Ghibli fan already – you can see his video overview of the studio here, made for the BBC’s “Inside Stories” […]

August 25, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Springing onto the web this summer, the Azuki digital manga service offers readers a huge number of titles, delivered straight to their e-reader. It’s not only the ideal place to catch up on established titles like A Silent Voice and Ajin: Demi-Human, but also to snag “simulpub” releases coming out in English […]

August 15, 2021 · 2 comments

Fred Ladd, who died on 3rd August at the age of 94, met anime in 1963, when he was phoned by a New York company asking if there was potential in a foreign TV cartoon. The company was NBC Enterprises, a small outfit that rather hoped people would confuse it with the better known NBC […]

August 10, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Ten years ago, the world of Big Order was struck by a massive paranormal catastrophe. But for schoolboy Eiji Hoshimiya, that was only the start of the nightmare. Now, he lives with a terrible secret knowledge – that he was the child who wished for an apocalypse, and somehow had that wish […]