Tag: anime

February 27, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Koichi Uehara (Takahiro Yokokawa) is the only kid in town who isn’t going somewhere exotic for the holidays. His friends are off to Hokkaido and Bali, but he’s stuck in boring old Tokyo. Even a trip to the grandparents’ place is hardly exotic, as they only live a few miles away in […]

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 […]

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 19, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Sneaked out this week by Concordia University’s Platform Lab, Anime Streaming Platform Wars might sound like an oddly business-focussed computer game, but is actually a fantastic academic resource on the modern anime business. Relatively short at just 34 pages, it corrals concise appraisals of the major players in the modern anime business, […]