Tag: Japan

October 2, 2018 · 0 comments

Gundam Thunderbolt

Gundam Thunderbolt

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky may be the closest that anime has ever come to producing a full-blown Vietnam film. The Gundam franchise has always been about war, but Thunderbolt suggests its makers were marathoning films like Apocalypse Now and Born on the Fourth of July. Thunderbolt makes a “gritty” Hollywood franchise film […]

September 25, 2018 · 0 comments

Interview: Mamoru Hosoda

Interview: Mamoru Hosoda

By Andrew Osmond. In the run-up to the UK cinema release of Mamoru Hosoda’s eagerly awaited Mirai in 2018, I interviewed Hosoda himself about his new film. Mirai revolves around the adventures of Kun, a four year-old boy in Japan, who magically encounters family members from the past and future. Hosoda’s past acclaimed films include The […]

September 19, 2018 · 0 comments

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

By Jonathan Clements. Mars is under siege! Just before Halloween 2071, a terrorist bomb destroys a tanker truck on Highway One, close to a densely-populated crater city. There are casualties up to half a mile from the blast – 500 killed or injured by what appears to be a biochemical weapon. The reward for the […]

September 9, 2018 · 1 comment

Books: Debating Otaku

Books: Debating Otaku

By Jonathan Clements. Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons will prove to be a vital core text in understanding the history of anime and manga fandom. This is not merely for its incisive analysis of the transformations of the word otaku over the last thirty years, but also for its detailed […]

September 7, 2018 · 0 comments

Junjo Romantica

Junjo Romantica

By Andrew Osmond. According to the Anime Encyclopedia, Junjo Romantica has been distributed to China, Korea, Russia and the Arab world. Now, the debut of the TV version in Britain marks perhaps the first UK commercial release of an anime that’s openly and explicitly a sexual love story between men – what’s often called a […]

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