Tag: Netflix

August 27, 2018 · 2 comments

Anime Limited acquires B: The Beginning for UK home video release

Thus far, 2018 has seen streaming juggernaut Netflix bring a number of new “Netflix Original” anime titles to their streaming platform. This March saw a show that we’re particularly excited about arrive on the service, as B: The Beginning was made available in full for all and sundry to view. How excited were we by the series? Excited enough […]

August 24, 2018 · 0 comments

Disenchantment

Disenchantment

By Andrew Osmond. The first thing to stress is that Disenchantment, now streaming on Netflix, gets better. This is a terrible advert for a TV series, of course, though anime fans may be readier than most viewers to give animated shows time to improve. After a first part that feels naff and derivative – and […]

August 6, 2018 · 0 comments

Flavors of Youth

Flavors of Youth

By Andrew Osmond. In 2016, Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever released in China. That may explain the existence of the Japan-animated, Chinese-set Flavors of Youth (as the film is called on pretty much every Anglophone source online, so Brit readers will just have to put up with the American spelling). […]

June 24, 2018 · 0 comments

Sword Art On… Netflix

Sword Art On… Netflix

By Hugh David. In a possible near future, humanity has achieved the ability to upload human consciousness into VR environments. Within those environments, however, all sorts of scenarios, good and bad, can play out, sometimes at risk to the body left in the real world. On hearing this description, where a certain generation of anime […]

June 6, 2018 · 0 comments

The Toys That Made Us

The Toys That Made Us

By Raz Greenberg. In case you missed the hype, The Toys that Made Us is a Netflix documentary show devoted to successful toy brands, made from an unapologetic fannish perspective. With each episode telling the story of a different brand, the show’s producers treat such cultural landmarks as Lego and cynical moneymakers as Masters of […]

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