Tag: Japan

December 16, 2020 · 1 comment

By Jonathan Clements. The approach of the year 2000 was fraught with a sense of commemoration and closure. Various media tried to put a cap on Japan’s last ten turbulent decades. On television, for example, the TBS mini-series 100 Years: The Story of One Century (2000) would chronicle the experiences of a group of Japanese […]

December 13, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. While much of the K franchise is available from Anime Limited, the first K TV series from 2012 has been sadly out of print in Britain for a long time – until now, with a spanking new Collector’s Blu-ray! That means we can follow K from the very beginning…

December 11, 2020 · 0 comments

By Kambole Campbell. When compared to the decompressed pace of a manga series, the film adaptation Children of the Sea could never feasibly provide all the answers a viewer might seek. With a script adapted by Daisuke Igarashi from his own manga, director Ayumu Watanabe was naturally restricted as to how much of the film’s […]

December 6, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Planetes is an anime space series that doesn’t have any giant robot suits. Nor does it have any aliens, androids, cyborgs, terraforming, telepathy, black holes, interplanetary empires, galaxy-spanning travel, chatty computers, cloning, time travel or freakishly gifted adolescents. Planetes is also widely hailed as one of the best science-fiction anime ever made, […]

December 3, 2020 · 7 comments

By Jonathan Clements. With three hundred years to serve in consecutive life sentences, three hardened criminals in the 29th century are given an offer they can hardly refuse. If they are prepared to take on dangerous law enforcement cases, they can knock years off their sentences. But if they disobey orders or try to run, […]