Tag: Bones

December 13, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. If you saw the film title Sword of the Stranger without knowing anything else about it, you might guess it was a no-nonsense action flick, perhaps with a Man With No Name hero and a great many bladed weapons. And you’d be right. It’s also an anime by the Cowboy Bebop studio, […]

February 19, 2017 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. In Japan, mobile games are big business. Blame it on the commute – on Tokyo trains, the jam-packed passengers are asked not to talk on their phones, and remarkably nearly all of them don’t talk. So instead they use their phones and tablets for browsing, texting and playing games. And they can […]

October 6, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Whether they’re from the east or west, animation studios know you can’t beat a good mascot. It could be a giant mouse, a plasticine dog, or a box-shaped robot trash compactor. It’s the same story in Japan. Studio Ghibli has Totoro; Production I.G. has the cyber-warrior Kusanagi; Gainax has the Evangelion. The […]

June 11, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anime Limited is introducing the Gundam franchise into Britain with a mix of old and new releases. The new Blu-ray of the very first Mobile Suit Gundam series gives us its genesis in 1979. Meanwhile, Gundam: The Origin (which Anime Limited distributed for Bandai Visual) and Gundam Reconguista in G were both […]