Tag: Shelley Pallis

May 19, 2020 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Fans of Japanese sci-fi TV were in for a lockdown treat when the Toei company announced a new channel on Youtube, posting 70 different shows from several decades, ranging from the early black-and-white super-hero show National Kid (1960) to the robo-cop insanity of Winspector (1990). As the title of this article reflects, […]

April 20, 2020 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Kathryn Hemmann’s new book, Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze, quotes an incident oft-cited in discussions of fandom – Anne Rice’s complaint that critics of her vampire novels were “interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.” Rice was famously furious that many of her readers disapproved of the direction her books were […]

April 14, 2020 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. In the introduction to their latest collaboration, Animating the Spirited, Tze-yue G. Hu, Masao Yokota and Gyongyi Horvath recall the discovery that they were all separately working on papers on the “spiritual aspects of creative work,” and their joint decision to pool their resources. I’m not sure, however, that they necessarily agreed […]

September 27, 2019 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Thirty years ago, a cataclysm destroyed half the world. A new race was born from the flames: the Burnish, fire-starting mutants who present a danger to society. Set against them to keep modern society safe is the Burning Rescue fire squad. Galo Thymos (Kenichi Matsuyama) is their newest raw recruit, a hot-headed […]

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 […]