Winter 2019 impressions
When it came to writing up my top anime of 2018 list, I realised that there wasn’t much from 2018 that I could really recommend. I would even go so far as...
Category: Reviews
A game of faces: The Promised Neverland episode 1
There are some early visual cues that all is not right for the orphans in The Promised Neverland.
Dororo episode 1 is superb
This is what I needed. Dororo episode 1 is a visual treat, with its Mushishi esque painterly backgrounds and moody period setting.
Anxious and otherworldly: Boogiepop and Others first impressions
My gut feeling is that Boogiepop and Others won’t be a crowd-pleaser.
Seriously?! The end of Banana Fish
“Seriously?!”
Existential sci-fi manga! Identity & control in Toward the Terra
Set in the infinite blackness of space, where single lives are like grains of sand thrown to the wind, Keiko Takemiya's Toward the Terra unfolds.
There’s just no escaping anime, is there? (Autumn 2018 impressions)
It’s Autumn in the UK now. It’s cold and wet outside, the nights are drawing in and there’s the first inkling of frost in the mornings. Don...
Great romantic fools: The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
In 2017, Masaaki Yuasa directed The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, which is a film set in the same fictional universe as his 2010 series The Tatami Galaxy. I rea...
Girls’ Last Tour
A writer needs a reader, a singer needs an audience.
The unbearable lightness of Tamako Love Story
I had a little crush, recently. He was handsome and urbane, tall and well dressed. We talked late at night over a bottle of whisky. It felt out of control. It f...