Tag: Japan

December 6, 2019 · 2 comments

100% Perfect Sunshine Girl

100% Perfect Sunshine Girl

By Jonathan Clements. Teenage runaway Hodaka (Kotaro Daigo) is living hand-to-mouth in Tokyo, writing for a tabloid newspaper about conspiracy theories and the occult. One magical story seems to come true, when burger-bar waitress Hina (Nana Mori) is revealed to have the ability to control the weather. For a short period, in a limited space […]

November 30, 2019 · 0 comments

Books: Archiving Anime

Books: Archiving Anime

By Jonathan Clements. Archiving Movements: Short Essays on Materials of Anime and Visual Media, edited by Minori Ishida and Kim Joon Yang, is related to a patchwork of international initiatives – an anime archiving project at Niigata University, an exhibition in Singapore, and a brief mini-conference in Stockholm. It seems to have been produced as […]

November 27, 2019 · 0 comments

Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul

By Andrew Osmond. Good news, young man; your beautiful girlfriend wants to have you for dinner. It’s an old joke (especially for fans of cannibal superstar Hannibal Lecter) but it’s a fair summary of how Tokyo Ghoul opens. It’s set in what seems to be present-day Tokyo, with a big difference; the city is infested […]

November 21, 2019 · 0 comments

Interview: Studio Trigger

Interview: Studio Trigger

By Andrew Osmond. Studio Trigger’s romping spectacle Promare had its British premiere at the Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival, and three of the film’s key staff were on hand to present it. Hiroyuki Imaishi is Promare’s director; he’s been a hero to fandom since he helmed Gainax’s mecha series Gurren Lagann back in 2007, before […]

November 18, 2019 · 0 comments

Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop

By Andrew Osmond. Cowboy Bebop turns 21 this year. For those who’ve never seen it, the 26-part series chronicles the misadventures of a cluster of spacefaring bounty hunters, in a future that’s lurid, farcical and tragic by turns. It’s somewhere between Blade Runner, Futurama and Kill Bill (predating the last two). It has an iconic […]

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