Tag: Scotland Loves Anime

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 […]

October 18, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Akane (Riho Yoshioka) is a small-town lady in rural Chichibu, surrogate parent to her teenage sister Aoi (Shion Wakayama), and an enthusiastic part of the local community. And somehow she’s been drafted into a local publicity initiative to bring in a big lounge-singer star to jump-start the local tourist business. But this […]

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 […]