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Exhibition: Attack on Titan
By Andrew Osmond. Pictures by Carlos Nakajima.How will Attack on Titan end? In a time of serialised epic fantasies, Attack on Titan has been one of the canniest, throwing out massive story twists to shake the fans. You can revisit some of them next month with the Collector’s Blu-ray/DVD release of Attack on Titan: Roar […]
Music: Konomi Suzuki
By Shelley Pallis. Anime music has always played a large role in the life and career of singer Konomi Suzuki. The 22-year-old star boasts that it was the sight of Sheryl Nome, the blond-tressed “Galactic Fairy” from Macross Frontier, who first inspired her to seek a career in music. Macross Frontier wasn’t released until 2008, […]
Of Flesh and Blood
By Jeremy Clarke. In the West, Hirokazu Koreeda remains Japan’s highest-profile, living, live-action film director. Shoplifters (2018) picked up over eighty awards nominations this year including the Best Foreign-Language Picture Golden Globe and Oscar. A Blu-ray box set of four key films, each with a new commentary, plus some excellent extras and a useful book […]
Gun Gale Online 2
By Andrew Osmond. If you haven’t seen the first volume of Gun Gale Online, we introduce it here; it’s spun off from the Sword Art Online franchise, but it’s quite possible to start with Gun Gale if you want. The end of the first volume set up the plucky Karen, known online as the pink […]
Zeta Gundam Part 2
By Andrew Osmond. Zeta Gundam is sometimes described as one of the darker Gundam series. That’s largely because of things that happen in the last couple of episodes on this set – this really is a series where no-one, and we mean no-one, is safe.