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Snow White with the Red Hair
By Andrew Osmond. The first thing to clear up about this romantic anime released by Funimation is that it’s not a fairy-tale, and isn’t really a version of Snow White. The only brief nods to that story are in the opening episode, where there’s a poisoned apple – but the heroine doesn’t eat it – […]
Brave New Worlds
Andrew Osmond pits Ghost in the Shell: Arise against PSYCHO-PASS. A wise man once said: “We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.” Anime is especially interested in the future, more than any other kind of animation. The tradition goes […]
Age of Shadows
by Jeremy Clarke. The Age of Shadows opens with an unexpected Warner Bros. logo, confirming it as the Hollywood studio’s first Korean-language production. It was made in conjunction with director Kim Jee-woon’s own Grimm Pictures. His previous works include celebrated horror outing A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and gangster movie A Bittersweet Life (2005), […]
A Silent Voice: Anime vs Manga
By Andrew Osmond. Kyoto Animation’s film A Silent Voice comes to British cinemas this week; to learn about its story and characters, see our previous article. However, you don’t need to have seen the film to know the story. At the British premiere at Scotland Loves Anime, the audience was asked how many had read […]
Wixoss Music: Kanon Wakeshima
Tom Smith doesn’t forget the joker. Anime Limited come up trumps again with selector infected WIXOSS, a series from Steins;Gate director Takuya Satou and Fate/Stay Night writer Mari Okada that’s based around a fictional card game craze with a twist. Like all good card games, WIXOSS packs its fair share of rarities. Yet, unlike a £7.5k […]