Tag: Scotland Loves Anime

September 12, 2019 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Hinako has moved to Chiba to pursue her studies as an oceanographer – she just loves the sea, unaware that Minato and Wasabi on the shoreline have been watching her early morning surfing ventures with wide-eyed amazement. Both of them are trainee firemen, but its Minato who gets the chance to play […]

September 9, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. It is difficult to overstate the impact of the author Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) on Japanese literature, and anime. He was still in his thirties when he died, a largely unknown poet living in provincial obscurity, and only really read outside local newspapers after the publication of a Complete Works a decade later. […]

September 6, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond One of the century’s great philosophers sang that everything you know is wrong, black is white, up is down and short is long. Patema Inverted, by director Yasuhiro Yoshiura, confines itself to Weird Al’s middle axiom, that up is down. The heroine Patema begins in an underground world, falling ‘down’ a chasm […]

September 4, 2019 · 0 comments

Glasgow (September 4, 2019) – Anime Limited, the UK’s leading independent distributor of anime, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the distribution rights to the UK and Ireland of the much anticipated animated feature WEATHERING WITH YOU, the latest film from Makoto Shinkai, the director of 2016’s international hit Your Name.  Anime Limited will […]

June 16, 2019 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Mamoru Hosoda’s Oscar-nominated film Mirai is a time-travel fantasy that might look like Hosoda’s own journey into his past. After all, his breakout film was another time-travel yarn. But whereas 2006’s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time featured a familiar kind of anime protagonist – a mishap-prone schoolgirl with some confused feelings […]