Girls Who Leapt Through Time
By Andrew Osmond. Readers of this blog will know The Girl Who Leapt Through Time as the seminal breakthrough film...
Manga: Shuna’s Journey
By Andrew Osmond. In the last twelve months, we’ve had the first ever English-language releases of two vintage Miyazaki works, both forty...
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
By Andrew Osmond. Speaking at 2014’s Tokyo Film Festival, Hideaki Anno mentioned that he once watched a rerun of his...
Ascendance of a Bookworm
By Andrew Osmond. Like many fantasy protagonists, the young heroine of Ascendance of a Bookworm is on a desperate mission....
Liz and the Blue Bird
By Andrew Osmond. Liz and the Blue Bird was released in Japan in April 2018, less than two years after...
Books: The Art of Pacific Rim the Black
By Jonathan Clements. Occupying a handy space between Titan Books’ habitual comics and movie work, and the more impenetrable territory...
Summer Ghost
By Andrew Osmond. The name Summer Ghost may sound oxymoronic to British viewers. We tend to associate ghosts with cold,...
Patlabor the Movie
By Andrew Osmond. Mamoru Oshii, the director of Patlabor the Movie, once described his 1989 film as pop entertainment. Any...
Fated Encounters
By Andrew Osmond. Anime is full of fraught love stories, where characters cross oceans of time, fight fierce duels, or...
Re:cycle Penguindrum
By Andrew Osmond. In Penguindrum, a dorky penguin hat – that’s a hat that looks like a penguin, not one...
