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Sweet Bean
Jeremy Clarke on a low-key movie about takeaway food and suburban life. Early morning. A man (Masatoshi Nagase) tramps heavily up fire-escape steps to look at the view from his rooftop, then down again and along the street. He goes through a little door into a small restaurant kitchen where he dons a chef’s hat […]
Behind the Arias
Andrew Osmond interviews the co-director of Harmony. Michael Arias should need little introduction to readers of this blog. He’s most famous as the American director of the epic anime film Tekkonkinkreet, whose production was the subject of an in-depth interview by Jasper Sharp. Arias is also the developer of the Toon Shaders software, as deployed […]
Tank Girls!
By Andy Hanley. For all of the abject horrors that World War II brought to bear, it’s hard not to be fascinated by the war machines that were so instrumental in the fighting. While the First World War was largely won and lost by weight of numbers and boots on the ground, with a smattering […]
Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV
By Jeremy Clarke. Lucis is a peaceful and prosperous kingdom based on magic. This being a Final Fantasy film it should come as no surprise that the magic derives from a crystal. Lucis possesses this crystal and has used it to construct a wall around its main city of Insomnia in which its monarch resides. […]
Ninja Slayer Music: Boom Boom Satellites
By Tom Smith. Music and anime often go hand-in-hand. Watched Pokémon? Then it’s your destiny to know the theme song, instinctively. Been keeping up-to-date with PSYCHO PASS or Tokyo Ghoul? Chances are that “Ling tosite sigure” means something to you, even if you are unsure how to pronounce it. Then, it is not too surprising […]