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Ride Your Wave: Director’s Notes
By Masaaki Yuasa. Up to this point, I’ve always had large casts in my work. That’s because I always had a desire to draw the entire World” of each piece. But in this project, Ride Your Wave, I thought it would be better to limit the number of characters to focus more on the characters’ […]
Books: Inu-Oh
By Motoko Tamamuro. All the stories continue: There are sequels and side stories. Why are they born? Stories are told and disappear, read and forgotten. But, if that is all there is, it is ephemeral. That’s why there is a sequel. The Tale of the Heike: Chapter of Inu-Oh is a modern novel by Hideo […]
Ride Your Wave
By Andrew Osmond. Ride Your Wave by director Masaaki Yuasa is a romantic-supernatural drama about a young couple, their love for each other, the wonder of sea and surf, and the magic properties of water. It’s an unpredictable film, with crazy and heart-breaking story developments, and as such, it reflects Yuasa’s anime over the past […]
Podcast – 1st April 2020 (w/ Dr. Jonathan Clements)
“It’s -3°C outside and there’s an ice cream van in my street” Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley welcome special guest Dr. Jonathan Clements to the podcast to discuss a boat load of topics to bring new nearly two hours of audio! We’ve intentionally steered away from talking about the current state of play around the […]
Ride Your Wave
By Shelley Pallis. Hinako has moved to Chiba to pursue her studies as an oceanographer – she just loves the sea, unaware that Minato and Wasabi on the shoreline have been watching her early morning surfing ventures with wide-eyed amazement. Both of them are trainee firemen, but its Minato who gets the chance to play […]