THIS WILL BE SPOILER-FREE UNTIL THE UPCOMING WARNING 15 months. It’s been that long since I last entered a cinema, to watch My Hero Academia The Movie: Heroes Rising. As much as I appreciate the deluge of high quality TV anime we’re currently blessed with, my first love remains cinema. There’s something extra special about the bright … Read more
Here’s a fateful quote from my 10-month old My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review: “The first part of 2020 has certainly been great so far for cinematic anime… I hope the rest of the year can keep up with this relative feast of theatrical Japanese animation”. I’m sorry. I jinxed it. 2020 was my fault. A little … Read more
What with an unprecedented surge of patient demand assailing the UK health service latterly, I’ve barely had time to think — let alone write the last couple of months. However, I have kept up with seasonal anime. Sometimes vegetating in front of the pretty moving colours at the end of a busy, stressful day is the best … Read more
A whole year of anime is almost over, and what a weird year it’s been. Winter 2020 started well with shows like Get Your Hands Off Eizouken! and Somali and the Forest Spirit, only for the SARS CoV2 novel coronavirus/COVID 19 to derail many of the shows due to air in the following Spring and Summer seasons. Now that … Read more
This season, I started off pretty despondent at the lack of anime, hence the obviously exasperated tone of my halfway impressions article. Now that Summer 2020 is over (and the evenings are getting dark again — boooooo) I can look back and say that despite the great contraction in the number of new shows, some … Read more
Originally I was hyped to see this film back when it was meant to have been released cinematically in the UK in April. Had my tickets bought and everything. Then 2020 decided to do its thing and normal societal functioning was pretty much cancelled. I worried that perhaps I’d have to wait until next year … Read more
I don’t know about you, but I’ve just experienced my worst ever summer, and the pandemic-assisted drought of decent anime to distract me from spiraling stress levels has not helped. My job has rocketed in intensity and my recent 2 weeks of disappointing, non-restful holiday have been spent in paranoid lockdown, hiding from the rampaging … Read more
Spring 2020 has ended and although the constant spectre of COVID19 threatened to cancel or postpone all the shows we love, at least some of our anxieties proved unfounded. It seems that the upcoming Summer 2020 season will bear most of the brunt of the pandemic’s effects, with a substantially reduced roster of shows announced … Read more
How’s life out there in lockdown land? For me, life is as busy as ever. As a healthcare worker, I don’t get to hide in my dark bunker — and for that I’m very grateful, as I think I might go crazy otherwise. For those of you locked away, anime is a useful anaesthetic — … Read more
If naked plastic smoothed-crotch automaton brawling is your idea of a good time, look no further than Netflix’s new Cyberpunk Barbie anime, also inexplicably known as Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. It boasts incredible photo-realistic backdrops filled with awkward, unnaturally shiny doll-people who look so laughably out-of-place that even after 12 episodes it is impossible … Read more