Tag: Japan

January 6, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. It’s been three years since Makoto Shinkai was last in London. “I don’t remember it being this dark or this cold,” he says. A moment later, he confirms that his new film, Weathering with You, is chiefly inspired by the climate crisis. “I don’t know how things are here in London, but […]

January 2, 2020 · 0 comments

by Chris Perkins. We return for our annual round-up of places to legally access anime online, with yet another major player getting in the ring. As if the average anime fan didn’t already have an embarrassment of riches to choose from in 2020, the arrival of Channel Four’s online portal All4, with over a hundred […]

January 1, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. “It’s the same as British weather, really,” Shinichiro Watanabe observes about the trials of life to a London audience at MCM Comic Con. Outside it’s winter and the island’s weather is at its dreariest. “We don’t have good weather here… but just by having that bad weather, one sunny day makes it […]

December 30, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. In a publicity coup to rival no other in January 2016 at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that while he had been talking, Netflix had rolled out (at least in theory) in 130 countries, including Azerbaijan, Vietnam, India, Nigeria, and Poland. It’s a suitably grandstanding opening […]

December 27, 2019 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. Luck & Logic is the kind of series that could sound fearfully complicated if you kept in all the names and quasi-technical terms… but when you strip those names out, it’s a very simple affair. The setting is an alternative Japan, not so different from present-day reality, except for little things like […]