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Sound! Euphonium
By Andrew Osmond. Sound! Euphonium might be subtitled This is not K-On!, and not just as a joke. This series really isn’t another K-On!, though the parallels are obvious. Both shows focus on schoolgirls in music clubs; both were animated by the feted Kyoto Animation with the same broad “look” and palette, and they share […]
Hyouka
By Andrew Osmond. Following the release of the acclaimed A Silent Voice this year, new anime fans may be looking at the backlist of the studio which made it, Kyoto Animation. They may be surprised to find it had a very different reputation before Voice. Its early TV serials often played with “slice of life” […]
Enemies Reunited
By Jonathan Clements. Partway through the Glasgow screening of A Silent Voice, its director Naoko Yamada has sunk low in the chair next to me, hugging her bulky coat to her like a blanket. Watching a Japanese film with its director is not necessarily a common experience. Some have wanted to sit in with the […]
A Silent Voice Director Naoko Yamada to Attend Glasgow Film Festival 2017 Screening
Glasgow, UK January 31, 2017 – Anime Limited are excited to announce the attendance of A Silent Voice director Naoko Yamada at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. She will be attending the screening of the film on Thursday, 23 February. As part of this rare trip abroad to promote her film, Ms Yamada will also […]
A Silent Voice
By Andrew Osmond. At last year’s Scotland Loves Anime event, the festival judges had to decide which of the films was the best (you can listen to their comments here).The prize went to Your Name, but only by a narrow margin – the votes split almost equally between Shinkai’s blockbuster and a very different film […]