Tag: Japan

November 8, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. In Natsumi Ito’s My Dear Detective, Mitsuko Hoshino is a go-getting, no-nonsense detective, a woman in a man’s world, repeatedly clearing cases faster than anyone else, even as her superiors and colleagues mutter that women in the workplace is just a passing fad. She cuts a dash through 1930s Tokyo, moving among […]

November 2, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anime fans coming to the made-for-video episodes of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor after watching the Tylor TV show might wonder what they were in for. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, it was common for anime franchises to be adapted between formats – TV episodes, video episodes and movies. But they […]

October 30, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. “Riding on public transportation in Japan makes you feel a part of the general population,” writes Steve Alpert in Kyoto Stories. “One of the people. Part of the normal tapes­try of regular life in your city. Riding in a private car lets you feel that there’s an entire other world out there. […]

October 21, 2022 · 0 comments

By Kambole Campbell. In the eyes of contemporary viewers, anime as an industry and as a medium has had an increasingly intertwined relationship with the online space. While there’s no taking away the after-school broadcast slots and treasured home releases that defined my own interactions with anime throughout my childhood, many people today see anime […]

October 18, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Akane (Riho Yoshioka) is a small-town lady in rural Chichibu, surrogate parent to her teenage sister Aoi (Shion Wakayama), and an enthusiastic part of the local community. And somehow she’s been drafted into a local publicity initiative to bring in a big lounge-singer star to jump-start the local tourist business. But this […]