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Podcast – 25th March 2020
ALL THE ANIME PODCAST – 25th March 2020 “Skynet is taking seed” Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley are back to bring you nearly 70 minutes of fun discussion to help pass the time. Today, while they have every intention of trying to remain on topic that quickly doesn’t happen as they begin talking about many Transformers related […]
Igort’s Japanese Notebooks
By Andrew Osmond. Japanese Notebooks: A Journey to the Empire of Signs is somewhere between a comic strip and a picture book. Either way, this 180-page hardback, published by Chronicle Books, is a thing of beauty. It’s not a manga, being originally published in Italy, but its author Igort Tuveri has a rare distinction; he’s […]
The World of Japanese Girls’ Comics
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood looks for the mojo in shojo. The touring exhibition of shojo manga, which finishes its run at London’s House of Illustration in June, is not so much about comics as about the shojo aesthetic. The exhibition presents a world of slender, beautiful men, of flowers, of soft-edged pastels. If you knew nothing of […]
Manga: Kill la Kill
by Chris Perkins. Anime and manga have always had an extremely close relationship. Despite a recent increase in those based on light novels and videogames, a sizeable proportion of anime today are still adapted from manga, or at least conceived simultaneously. But what about those manga adapted from properties that started life as anime? It’s […]
Manga Taisho 2016
Meghan Ellis on the shortlist for this year’s Cartoon Grand Prize. Those responsible for adapting manga into anime or live-action must keep a close eye on the Manga Taisho nominations. Known in English as the Cartoon Grand Prize, only manga with 8 or less collected volumes are eligible for release, placing emphasis on quality of […]