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Ninja Slayer Music: Boom Boom Satellites
By Tom Smith. Music and anime often go hand-in-hand. Watched Pokémon? Then it’s your destiny to know the theme song, instinctively. Been keeping up-to-date with PSYCHO PASS or Tokyo Ghoul? Chances are that “Ling tosite sigure” means something to you, even if you are unsure how to pronounce it. Then, it is not too surprising […]
Music: Electric Eel Shock
By Tom Smith. I’ll always remember the first time I saw Electric Eel Shock live. It was around five years ago, relatively late in their career considering their UK tour last year celebrated 21 years of the garage rock trio. I had heard so many stories about the band, mostly relating to their crazy live […]
Ninja Slayer Music: Melt Banana
By Tom Smith These days the boundaries of being an indie band can be difficult to define. Acts like England’s own Enter Shikari, despite being signed to their own label, manage to achieve mainstream chart positions without the need for a major record company’s backing. Yet, if you look at them, their site, their merchandise, […]
Ninja Slayer
By Hugh David. As academics argue about how to define the historical location of anime fans in the West – is it now five or six generations? The latest group seems resolutely uninterested in what an older generation thinks anime was actually all about. Call it a triumph of marketing, the smart use of existing […]