Tag: Scotland Loves Anime

October 15, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anime is full of fraught love stories, where characters cross oceans of time, fight fierce duels, or turn the universe on its head, all for the one they love. Typically, these lovelorn heroes seem drawn by fate along their journeys, or are they forging their own fate? For the online season of […]

October 13, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Kaoru Tono hates the summer. He hates the heat, and the way that the ice creams always sell out in the tuck shop, and the fact that nobody at school has anything to do or say. He hates it when the train up ahead hits a deer on the line, because it […]

October 9, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In Penguindrum, a dorky penguin hat – that’s a hat that looks like a penguin, not one made out of penguins – brings a beautiful girl back to life. This miracle starts an adventure that’s insanely odd even by the standards of anime. The girl is Himari Takakura, the angelic sister of […]

October 6, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Naoko Yamada is the best-known female director in anime. Most of her directing credits are for TV series made at Kyoto Animation, where she spent most of her career. Her breakout was on K-ON! in 2009. Following that hit, she directed Tamako Market (2013) and Sound! Euphonium (2015), the latter as “series […]

October 3, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This summer, I interviewed the director Atsuko Ishizuka in London about her new film Goodbye, Don Glees, which is screening at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival. It’s the story of three boys in a Japanese country village, who are falsely blamed for causing a forest fire. To clear their name, they […]