By Andrew Osmond. Pictures by Carlos Nakajima. Anime tourism is big business in today’s Japan. Around the country, local governments are savvy to the fact that if you can link your neighbourhood to a popular comic or cartoon, then the fan tourists will come. One way is to present your hometown in an anime, so […]
By Andy Hanley Given how much anime loves to jam music into its plots and story-telling, whether its playing a part in saving humanity in Macross or idols working hard to achieve their dreams in the likes of Love Live, it’s perhaps surprising that there aren’t more musicals. Sure, a show might occasionally break into […]