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NEWSWIRE: June 2023 Pre-Orders
Hi folks! We hope you’ve had a great bank holiday weekend, and that those of you who made it to MCM London Comic Con are suitably recovered after…
Anime Limited MCM London Comic Con May 2023 announcements
ANIME LTD. ANNOUNCES THEATRICAL PLANS FOR “EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME”, “GREAT PRETENDER” HOME VIDEO, AND MORE THRILLING RELEASES AT MCM COMIC CON LONDON EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A…
The Bullet Train
By Tom Wilmot. There’s a bomb on the Hikari 109! Tetsuo Okita (Ken Takakura) and his band of jaded blue-collar bombers attempt to extort money from the government,…
Princess Jellyfish
By Andrew Osmond. Princess Jellyfish is an unusual name, which fits a most unusual anime. This eleven-part series is a sitcom that might turn into a romcom, in…
Books: History of Modern Manga
By Jonathan Clements. “The history of manga,” notes the back-cover blurb for Matthieu Pinon and Laurent Lefebvre’s new book, “is inextricably tied to Japan’s social, economic, political, and…
Books: Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video
By Jonathan Clements. Tom Mes’s new book begins in 2022 with Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car winning an Oscar, followed by a flood of gushing articles about how…
Anime Limited returns to MCM London Comic Con this May!
It’s been a long time since we last attended MCM London Comic Con (October 2019, no less – can you believe it?), and to say we’ve missed you…
Future Boy Conan at the Ghibli Museum
By Andrew Osmond. For all fans of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, we’d like to remind you that Miyazaki’s first anime, the adventure series Future Boy Conan, is available…
Books: Speaking in Subtitles
By Jonathan Clements. The sub-versus-dub debate was first truly ignited in August 1960, when Bosley Crowther in the New York Times issued a broadside against having to read…
Plan 75
by Jeremy Clarke. Chie Hayakawa‘s dystopian drama Plan 75 examines some of the social fallout of a government policy whereby Japanese people can voluntarily have themselves terminated after…
Tunnel to Summer
By Andrew Osmond. In the film The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit to Goodbye, a modern Japanese boy and girl are caught up in a new version of…
NEWSWIRE: May 2023 Pre-Orders
It’s May the 1st, and you know what that means? It’s time for us to Morris dance for you announce our latest round of Early Bird pre-orders! It’s…
Looking for Magical Doremi
By Andrew Osmond. Looking for Magical Doremi is an anime about three women and their friendship. Unusually for a “friendship” anime, the characters are all past school age,…
“The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes” in competition at Annecy Film Festival
“THE TUNNEL TO SUMMER, THE EXIT OF GOODBYES” IN COMPETITION AT ANNECY FILM FESTIVAL Inspired by the award-winning novel of the same name, the bittersweet sci-fi romance will…
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
By Shelley Pallis. What if you could stop the world? What if you had the ability to freeze time for everyone else, but had the power to stay…
Free! The Final Stroke
By Andrew Osmond. Free! The Final Stroke is the three-hour long finale to Kyoto Animation’s franchise about male competitive swimmers. This conclusion was released in Japanese cinemas as…
Garden of Words
By Tom Arden. Now released in an Anime Limited steelbook, Garden of Words was the last film that Makoto Shinkai made before he was boosted to blockbuster status…
Manga: Crescent Moon Marching
By Shelley Pallis. To escape the stress of city life, high school, and her overbearing mother, Mizuki runs away from home to spend spring break with her aunt.…
Shinkai’s Trilogy
By Andrew Osmond. Makoto Shinkai has made anime since the 1990s, but his three latest features – Your Name, Weathering with You and now Suzume – form their…
NEWSWIRE: April 2023 Pre-Orders
It might not quite be time to break out the t-shirt and sunscreen, but spring is certainly… well, springing, which also means we’re now on the verge of…
Son of the White Mare
by Jeremy Clarke. Three impatient brothers demand their inheritance from their father the king, who gives it to them on condition that they must not open the locked…
Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023)
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first taste of fame was in the late 1970s, when his band Yellow Magic Orchestra competed with Kraftwerk to become the kings of electro-pop. With synthesiser…
Jujutsu Kaisen 1.2
By Tom Wilmot. You’ve seen it all before, but not quite like this – or at least that seems to be the general consensus concerning Jujutsu Kaisen, a series…
March Comes in Like a Lion
By Andrew Osmond. March comes in like a lion resists obvious categorisation. You could call it a “slice of life” anime, but that’s a pretty useless heading these…
From Up on Poppy Hill, March Comes in Like a Lion, Azumanga Daioh: The Animation
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Jeremy Clarke. This animated feature based on six Haruki Murakami short stories comes not, as you might expect, from Japan, but rather from one of the few…
Manga: Cyberpunk Peach John
By Jonathan Clements. Ironically, there is nothing new about the plot of Rootport’s Cyberpunk Peach John. Despite a media frenzy about the way it was created, a year’s…
Electric Dragon 80.000v
By Tom Wilmot. It wasn’t so long ago that Gakuryu Ishii was a somewhat obscure figure in the West, despite being one of Japan’s most influential modern filmmakers.…
Sight & Sound & Anime
Sight and Sound's "Greatest Films of All Time" list for 2022 may not have featured anime at the top of the list, but the growth of the medium…
Takahiro Kimura (1964-2023)
Takahiro Kimura, who died on 5th March, first got the idea that animation might be the career for him when he saw episodes of Armoured Trooper VOTOMS and…
Levius
By Andrew Osmond. In Levius, boxing meets steampunk; or to put it in anime terms, Megalobox (or Tomorrow’s Joe) meets Fullmetal Alchmist (or Violet Evergarden). It’s a series…
Junk Head
By Jonathan Clements. In the far future, the human race is extremely long-lived, but infertile. One by one, they are dying off, with no sign of a solution.…
Over the Sky
By Andrew Osmond. Over The Sky, a cinema fantasy adventure, is a close relative to Keiichi Hara’s 2019 film Birthday Wonderand. They’re both family-friendly anime, without violence or…
NEWSWIRE: March 2023 Pre-Orders
It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, but the time is nigh to catch-up on what to expect from the coming month here at Anime…
Books: Studio Ghibli
By Jonathan Clements. Producer Toshio Suzuki was entertainingly underwhelmed when he was approached by agents for the pop stars Chage and Aska, who asked if Studio Ghibli would…
Books: Hell Mode
By Shelley Pallis. Kenichi is a gamer suffering from that common modern malaise, a frustration with games that make life too easy for him. He’s just spent three…
Books: I Surrendered My Sword
By Shelley Pallis. He was the greatest swordsman in the world. He advanced through every stage, mastered every trick, and learned every technique. He reached the highest possible…
Leiji Matsumoto (1938-2023)
“Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto has departed for the sea of stars.” That was how his daughter Makiko Matsumoto, who heads his office Studio Leijisha, announced Matsumoto’s death on…
Music: Trigun Stampede
By Andrew Osmond. Just days after the news broke that Anime Limited licensed the soundtrack to Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume, the company has announced it also has the soundtrack…
Books: Rebuild World
By Jonathan Clements. When we first see Akira, he is gripped in the jaws of a mutant dog. Nafuse’s Rebuild World ditches the tiresome induction scene of many…
Manga: I Fell for a Fujoshi
By Shelley Pallis. Ichi and Tae are a pair of those perennial manga clichés, “childhood friends.” And, this being the self-aware, post-modern 2020s, Ichi has read enough manga…
121st Century Bloodsucker
By Tom Wilmot. Few long-running franchises touch as many mediums as Vampire Hunter D. The brainchild of prolific author Hideyuki Kikuchi, the series has spawned over thirty novels,…
The Time-Bending Tales of Makoto Ueda
By Tom Wilmot. Writers tend to have a motif, an idea or theme that persists throughout their work, distinguishing their projects and allowing them to form an artistic…
Music: Shinkai’s Suzume
By Andrew Osmond. Makoto Shinkai’s new film Suzume isn’t in British cinemas yet – as of writing, it’s scheduled for release on 14th April. However, Anime Limited is…
Anime Limited to Distribute Vinyl and CD of Suzume Motion Picture Soundtrack
Director Makoto Shinkai reunites with RADWIMPS for the soundtrack of his latest feature film, as well as internationally acclaimed film composer Kazuma Jinnouchi GLASGOW, JANUARY 31, 2023 – …
Books: Tatami Galaxy
By Tom Wilmot. Any mention of The Tatami Galaxy usually brings to mind Masaaki Yuasa’s much-loved 2010 anime. The charming series has become something of a modern classic,…
Interview: Sawao Yamanaka
By Andrew Osmond. For the benefit of readers who discovered your band, the pillows, through the music on FLCL, which pillows albums would you especially recommend as a way…
Japan Foundation Tour 2023
by Jeremy Clarke. This year’s Japan Foundation (JPF) Touring Programme, which runs throughout February and March and is celebrating its 20th edition, contains three manga-related live-action films and…
George Takei’s Allegiance
By Helen McCarthy. Art is a time machine; it shows us other versions of history. The ones we like least are usually the ones we need to remember.…
Books: She and Her Cat
By Andrew Osmond. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself,…
Manga: Natsume & Natsume
By Jonathan Clements. There’s something not quite right about Natsume Shiranui. Sometimes he stands too close to people. Sometimes he doesn’t quite read the room right. He’s troubled…