Tag: anime
December 13, 2021 · 1 comment
Seraph of the End
By Andrew Osmond This time it’s vampires. In recent years, we’ve seen civilisation ended umpteen times over, often by zombie apocalypses, but now the bloodsuckers get a turn. It makes a difference. Zombies and Titans may tear you up and eat you, but at least they don’t laugh sadistically and tell you how much they’re […]
December 12, 2021 · 0 comments
Books: Approaches to Eva
By Jonathan Clements. Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion is a delightful collection of fresh scholarship on all sorts of intriguing aspects of anime, as revealed through various angles to a famous and much-loved series, itself given a new lease of life and a new legion of fans thanks to Netflix. Published by […]
December 10, 2021 · 1 comment
Keiko Nobumoto (1964-2021)
The writer Keiko Nobumoto, who died on 1st December from oesophageal cancer, was one of the stand-out figures of the anime world, quite possibly because her path to it was so unorthodox. Born in Hokkaido, she first studied to be a nurse in her hometown of Asahikawa, and spent the first few months of her […]
December 10, 2021 · 0 comments
Blood-C
By Andrew Osmond. Blood-C is a part – undoubtedly the most controversial part – of the Blood franchise, about a girl named Saya who fights monsters with a sword. Blood-C is a reboot, a reimagining, which means you don’t have to have seen any of the other versions. It consists of a 12-part TV series, […]
December 9, 2021 · 3 comments
Boogiepop Phantom
By Andrew Osmond. Boogiepop Phantom is a teenage Twilight Zone. Contrary to popular anime depictions, being an adolescent in Japan isn’t all comedic love triangles, eccentric school clubs and wild beach vacations. It can be numbing, depressing, achingly lonely and aridly meaningless. In the deepest funk of teenage night, where everything seems weird and alien, […]