Tag: Japan

October 6, 2022 · 0 comments

Naoko Yamada & Friends

Naoko Yamada & Friends

By Andrew Osmond. Naoko Yamada is the best-known female director in anime. Most of her directing credits are for TV series made at Kyoto Animation, where she spent most of her career. Her breakout was on K-ON! in 2009. Following that hit, she directed Tamako Market (2013) and Sound! Euphonium (2015), the latter as “series […]

October 3, 2022 · 0 comments

Atsuko Ishizuka Interview

Atsuko Ishizuka Interview

By Andrew Osmond. This summer, I interviewed the director Atsuko Ishizuka in London about her new film Goodbye, Don Glees, which is screening at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival. It’s the story of three boys in a Japanese country village, who are falsely blamed for causing a forest fire. To clear their name, they […]

September 30, 2022 · 0 comments

Break of Dawn

Break of Dawn

By Shelley Pallis. In the year 2049, Tokyo teen Yuma is suitably blasé about all the technology that is supposed to help his life, particularly the irritating Nanako, a robot personal assistant who often seems like little more than a device for remote parental nagging. Yuma is particularly annoyed because there should be more to […]

September 12, 2022 · 0 comments

Books: Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!

Books: Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!

By Jonathan Clements. Nigella Lawson, Britain’s very own kitchen goddess, introduced the housewives of middle England to frankfurters marinaded and baked in honey and soy sauce, something that soon became a Christmas staple in my own house. She neglected to mention in Nigella Express, however, that this dish was something that Japanese-Americans had savoured for […]

September 9, 2022 · 0 comments

Gundam Seed Destiny

Gundam Seed Destiny

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Seed Destiny is the direct sequel to the earlier series Gundam Seed, which was covered on this blog here. Like the previous series, Destiny was created by Mitsuo Fukuda (director) and his wife Chiaki Morosawa (lead writer). It sees the return of several of the first Seed’s characters, though they’re joined […]

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