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March 12, 2020 · 0 comments

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

By Andrew Osmond. This is not the place to start for any newcomers to Gundam Wing. Endless Waltz is the last chapter of the Gundam Wing story, following on directly from the final TV episode (part 49). The TV series is already available from Anime Limited, and we wrote it up here. The TV Gundam […]

March 9, 2020 · 1 comment

Char’s Counter Attack

Char’s Counter Attack

By Andrew Osmond. That the first “original” cinema film in the Gundam franchise contains the word “counterattack” suggests two things. First, that someone at the Sunrise studio was thinking of a certain other 1980s film with spaceships and epic duels; and second, that it’s warning the audience that the film is a sequel. Which Char’s […]

March 3, 2020 · 0 comments

Never-Ending Man

Never-Ending Man

By Andrew Osmond. Never-Ending Man is a live-action documentary film about Hayao Miyazaki, and it starts with his “retirement” announcement in September 2013, after his “final” film, The Wind Rises. Those quote marks suggest how well he stuck to his word. “I’ve caused quite a stir before by saying I’m quitting,” Miyazaki said, “so people […]

February 29, 2020 · 1 comment

Dragon Dentist

Dragon Dentist

Kazuya Tsurumaki on his film. Kazuya Tsurumaki is known for FLCL, Gunbuster 2, and the Rebuild of Evangelion series, among others. He got involved with The Dragon Dentist (streaming now on All4) after meeting the original writer Otaro Maijo on Japan Animator Expo in 2014. Using the short pilot film screened at that time, this […]

February 26, 2020 · 0 comments

Interview: Tomihiko Morimi

Interview: Tomihiko Morimi

By Andrew Osmond. Penguin Highway, The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, The Tatami Galaxy, The Eccentric Family… All four stem from the imagination of Japanese author Tomihiko Morimi. Until recently, fans who didn’t read Japanese could only know him through the wonderful anime adaptations of his work. In 2019, however, Morimi’s original novels Penguin […]

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