Tag: kill la kill

February 11, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Kill la Kill rests on a panoply of ridiculous puns, the central pair of which work just as well in English due to them being loanwords: “fascist” and “fashion” do sound very similar. The title itself plays on another set of puns that only really works in Japanese: “to kill” (キル kiru), […]

March 1, 2016 · 0 comments

by Chris Perkins. Anime and manga have always had an extremely close relationship. Despite a recent increase in those based on light novels and videogames, a sizeable proportion of anime today are still adapted from manga, or at least conceived simultaneously. But what about those manga adapted from properties that started life as anime? It’s […]

September 22, 2015 · 0 comments

by Chris Perkins. Despite being founded as recently as 2011, Studio Trigger’s modest filmography comprises some of the most talked-about anime of recent years. And a lot of the credit has to go to the studio’s co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi. Imaishi’s early career is intimately tied up with the latter-day success of Gainax. He got started […]

July 20, 2015 · 2 comments

By Tom Smith. Oscar Wilde wrote, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”, but for Japanese group Sayonara Ponytail, it could be said that their art imitates manga far more than life. In fact, when this mysterious band first appeared, via the ancient medium of MySpace, its members were said to exist solely […]

July 8, 2015 · 0 comments

It’s been a busy week so no better time than now to bring you our latest Newswire. Read on below NEWS/GENERAL UPDATES ~ First of all a quick reminder that Kill la Kill Part 3 and Tiger & Bunny: The Rising are both available to add to your collection now! Kill la Kill Part 3 […]