Tag: Japan

January 28, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. For the benefit of readers who discovered your band, the pillows, through the music on FLCL, which pillows albums would you especially recommend as a way to understand how your music has changed and evolved over the years?  How about our best album Fool on the planet? I think that could be a […]

January 25, 2023 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. This year’s Japan Foundation (JPF) Touring Programme, which runs throughout February and March and is celebrating its 20th edition, contains three manga-related live-action films and one anime. With screening venues spread widely over the UK, it covers the following two dozen UK cities: Aberystwyth, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chester, Colchester, Coventry, […]

January 19, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself, three years before Voices of a Distant Star. It’s on Anime Limited’s edition of Voices and Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film shows the close […]

January 16, 2023 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. There’s something not quite right about Natsume Shiranui. Sometimes he stands too close to people. Sometimes he doesn’t quite read the room right. He’s troubled by social anxieties, doesn’t seem to have got a lot of the memos that many of us take for granted about what is and isn’t socially acceptable […]

January 13, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. When you get a coffee-table art book in English on anime, it’s almost always about Miyazaki or Ghibli. So it’s great to report that The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda, published by Abrams, is a really lovely coffee-table book. It’s big – 274 pages, 25 by 30 […]