Tag: Gen Urobuchi

October 21, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. The latest book in the Asia Pop! Series, Teri Silvio’s Puppets, Gods and Brands, is a surprising, vivacious and convincing anthropology of animation, which places animation ideals and fannish philosophies at the very centre of modern times. For Silvio, the idea of imparting life into inanimate objects – of animating them – […]

January 4, 2017 · 1 comment

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALDNOAH.ZERO S1. PSYCHO-PASS creator Gen Urobuchi’s superb hard SF mecha show Aldnoah.Zero seemed to reach a final and tragic finale at the end of its first season.  That tale, of renewed hostilities between the Mars-based VERS Empire (former human colonists living in a feudal society based around control of alien tech) […]

December 5, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The PSYCHO-PASS franchise has returned with the feature film, PSYCHO-PASS The Movie, on Blu-ray and DVD on October 3. After two TV series, the film takes the story beyond Japan for an action-heavy war story. More significantly for fans, it sees the return of former Enforcer Shinya Kogami, who went AWOL at […]

June 20, 2016 · 0 comments

By Hugh David. In an alternate 20th century, humans colonised Mars after the discovery of an ancient alien Hyper Gate on the Moon. But on the Moon, they found another ancient piece of tech, the Aldnoah, permitting the colonists to advance faster than the Earthlings they left behind. They came to see themselves as the […]

May 8, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. The old adage that “It takes a thief to catch a thief” broadly powers the major revelations at the climax of the first series of Psycho-Pass. Rather than an artificial intelligence, the SIBYL system which constantly monitors the stress levels and potential criminality of every Japanese citizen is actually a very human […]