Tag: Scotland Loves Anime

April 23, 2023 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Joelle Davidovich Pomponette, or Pompo for short, is a pint-sized producer, grand-daughter of a studio founder, who simply loves making movies. In the fictitious movie capital of “Nyallywood”, she is known for highly-regarded B-pictures – the anime lovingly recreates posters for works such as Guns Akimbo and Zombizarre, alongside her latest horror-from-the […]

March 15, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Back in town for the summer vacation, would-be medical student Toto is reunited with his former middle-school bestie, Roma. In the intervening months, their roles have been reversed – Roma was once the sophisticated city-slicker transplanted to Hicksville, but now he’s just a farmer’s boy who has to muck out the cows, […]

November 5, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jeremy Clarke. Teenage romance, parallel worlds and dysfunctional families are the main ingredients of The Relative Worlds, Yuhei Sakuragi’s uneasy cross between a mawkish teenage romance boy and a sci-fi action picture in the James Cameron mould. The romantic, emotional parts are gentle and almost hesitant. The science fiction, fantasy and action parts are […]

November 3, 2022 · 0 comments

Let’s talk films… but beware, spoilers lurk! Andy Hanley is joined by Scotland Loves Anime festival jury chairman Jonathan Clements, and juror Kambole Campbell, to talk about the films in competition for this year’s prestigious jury award. Does Blue Thermal soar? Does the Tunner to Summer take a U-turn? Will you want to say Goodbye […]

October 21, 2022 · 0 comments

By Kambole Campbell. In the eyes of contemporary viewers, anime as an industry and as a medium has had an increasingly intertwined relationship with the online space. While there’s no taking away the after-school broadcast slots and treasured home releases that defined my own interactions with anime throughout my childhood, many people today see anime […]