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Who Was Hokusai?
By Ellis Tinios. Hokusai (1760-1849) is the best-known Japanese artist on the world stage and enjoys equal renown in his homeland. The appetite for his art appears to be insatiable — ‘Hokusai’ exhibitions invariably draw huge crowds. His print image ‘The Great Wave’ is firmly established as a global icon. The Hokusai manga (Hokusai’s sketchbooks) […]
Durarara!! Music: Theatre Brook
By Paul Browne There’s a grittiness to the song ‘Uragiri no Yuyake’ by funk rock outfit Theatre Brook that seems perfectly in-step with the themes of Durarara!!, the anime it opens for. The series explores the lives of a group of friends on the streets of Ikebukuro, in particular Mikado Ryūgamine and Masaomi Kida, friends […]
Tiger & Bunny Music: Novels
By Paul Browne The anime series Tiger & Bunny delivered a fresh take on the concept of superheroes. Set in a fictionalized version of New York, the series focuses on the work of sponsored heroes – in particular the veteran Kotetsu T. Kaburagi aka “Wild Tiger” and his new young rookie partner Barnaby Brooks Jr. aka “Bunny”. […]
Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
By Andy Hanley Having enjoyed a successful TV series and one theatrical outing in the form of The Beginning, Tiger & Bunny returns for an all-new and much-anticipated adventure courtesy of a second film, The Rising. So, what’s next for the NEXT? Hero TV has introduced an all-new Second League of heroes, although given the […]
Review: The Anime Encyclopedia
By Raz Greenberg When the first edition of Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy’s The Anime Encyclopedia came out in 2001 there was nothing like it, literally. The closest thing to a comprehensive source of information about the thousands of anime titles out there was the listings in the Internet Movie Database, which largely contained basic […]