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December 26, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Last year saw Ghibliotheque: The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli, a book by the hosts of the popular Ghibliotheque podcast, which I reviewed here. Now, authors Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham have ventured beyond Ghibli with The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide.

December 1, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Occupying a handy space between Titan Books’ habitual comics and movie work, and the more impenetrable territory of Japanese animation, Andrew Osmond’s The Art of Pacific Rim The Black is a vibrant account of the Netflix series that cashed in on Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 movie hommage to Japanese SFX films. It […]

November 20, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. In 2011, Steve Jobs signed the death warrant on Adobe’s popular Flash software, with an open letter to the developers, citing security issues and the “closed” nature of the authoring platform. But it would be another decade before Adobe finally called time on the program, announcing an official “end of life” on […]

October 30, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. “Riding on public transportation in Japan makes you feel a part of the general population,” writes Steve Alpert in Kyoto Stories. “One of the people. Part of the normal tapes­try of regular life in your city. Riding in a private car lets you feel that there’s an entire other world out there. […]

September 3, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Playfully beginning with a little Austen pastiche, as in “It is a truth universally acknowledged…” the hero of My Friend’s Little Sister Has it in For Me starts as he means to go on, ranting about the simplistic stereotypes of so-called romances in the world of anime and light novels. With all […]