Tag: anime

March 15, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Back in town for the summer vacation, would-be medical student Toto is reunited with his former middle-school bestie, Roma. In the intervening months, their roles have been reversed – Roma was once the sophisticated city-slicker transplanted to Hicksville, but now he’s just a farmer’s boy who has to muck out the cows, […]

March 12, 2023 · 0 comments

Sight and Sound’s “Greatest Films of All Time” list for 2022 may not have featured anime at the top of the list, but the growth of the medium speaks to its increased footprint in film canon and popular culture.

March 9, 2023 · 0 comments

Takahiro Kimura, who died on 5th March, first got the idea that animation might be the career for him when he saw episodes of Armoured Trooper VOTOMS and Blue Meteor SPT Layzner in his student days. “As for the university,” he later remembered, “well, I realised that if I wanted to graduate at the rate […]

March 8, 2023 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Kyoto teenager Naomi Katagaki’s world is invaded by a wholly unexpected arrival – an avatar of his older self, transported from a garish, rainbow coloured other realm to the year 2027, a man on a mission to save a girl’s life. For Naomi’s classmate Ruri is fated to suffer a terrible accident, […]

February 26, 2023 · 2 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Producer Toshio Suzuki was entertainingly underwhelmed when he was approached by agents for the pop stars Chage and Aska, who asked if Studio Ghibli would do the video for their new single “On Your Mark.” Fact is, he said, he’d never heard of them. Later versions of the story have tried to […]