Tag: Andrew Osmond

October 3, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. PSYCHO-PASS envisions a world where Japan is a socially-ordered utopia, thanks to the Sibyl System – a surveillance giant that tabulates everybody’s “Crime Coefficient” data to make sure nobody is even planning on committing a crime. Its drama revolves around the nature of freedom and criminality in that future world – heavy […]

September 24, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Young people are learning how to be people, how to be human; small wonder they’re drawn to the vast world beyond humanity, to the myriad other forms of life. That applies particularly to youngsters troubled in their “normal” lives, fractious with their peers and parents, longing for connection. It’s a subject explored […]

August 30, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess functions as a 20th anniversary collection on one the most important anime of the late 20th century… but “important” to whom? Twenty years ago, Hayao Miyazaki’s film became an anime blockbuster, at least in Japan. In America and Britain, it had extremely limited cinema releases […]

August 10, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. If you haven’t seen the first volume of Gun Gale Online, we introduce it here; it’s spun off from the Sword Art Online franchise, but it’s quite possible to start with Gun Gale if you want. The end of the first volume set up the plucky Karen, known online as the pink […]

August 6, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Zeta Gundam is sometimes described as one of the darker Gundam series. That’s largely because of things that happen in the last couple of episodes on this set – this really is a series where no-one, and we mean no-one, is safe.