Tag: Andrew Osmond

January 15, 2021 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. While the score for the Japanese release of Cyber City Oedo 808 (included on the subtitled version of the film) was composed by Kazuhiko “Kazz” Toyama, it was replaced completely on the English-dubbed version. Andrew Osmond talks to Rory McFarlane about how he composed the new score.

January 9, 2021 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. The decidedly colourful English dub for Cyber City Oedo 808 was adapted by John Wolskel. He adapted several other anime titles for Manga Entertainment as well, often “in-your-face” actioners where Wolskel was encouraged to make the dialogue as edgy (and sweary) as possible. In this interview with Andrew Osmond, Wolskel remembers how […]

December 25, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Happy Christmas, Pixar fans! The studio’s new CG animation Soul debuts today on the Disney+ platform. It’s an afterlife fantasy, in which Joe, a New York jazz pianist takes a tumble down a manhole and ends up as a disembodied, well, soul en route to the Great Beyond. But our ghostly hero […]

December 13, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. While much of the K franchise is available from Anime Limited, the first K TV series from 2012 has been sadly out of print in Britain for a long time – until now, with a spanking new Collector’s Blu-ray! That means we can follow K from the very beginning…

December 6, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Planetes is an anime space series that doesn’t have any giant robot suits. Nor does it have any aliens, androids, cyborgs, terraforming, telepathy, black holes, interplanetary empires, galaxy-spanning travel, chatty computers, cloning, time travel or freakishly gifted adolescents. Planetes is also widely hailed as one of the best science-fiction anime ever made, […]