An Interview with Makoto Shinkai
Makoto Shinkai has had an interesting year, to put it lightly: Your Name (two years in the making) was released in Japan, first as a novel in June, then as a full anime feature film the following…
Makoto Shinkai has had an interesting year, to put it lightly: Your Name (two years in the making) was released in Japan, first as a novel in June, then as a full anime feature film the following…
“Those of us who are geeks, OK, real geeks, who earned our geekhood at school through sweat and loneliness and wedgies will no long stand idly by and watch our geekly identity taken from us be people…
“About time!” screamed Gundam fans when Gundam Reconguista in G was announced. Yoshiyuki Tomino, the man behind the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam series, was returning to write and direct…
“Just like you said, we might not be able to turn in a performance that we can live with. But we’re going to play. So long as we have a chance to play, and an audience that will listen, I’m…
In the future, after a nuclear war and disease have destroyed most of the world; Japan has adopted a new modern way of living called ‘lifeism’. The aim is to preserve life at all costs via implants…
“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.” – James Rollins
It rather rare to see a yuri anime released in the UK. I, for one, don’t recall ever…
“When you were here before Couldn’t look you in the eye You’re just like an angel Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather In a beautiful world I wish I was special You’re so very special”
– “Creep”…
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Vol. 1 © coolkyousinnjya 2013
Everyone who has ever gotten drunk has probably done something they have come to regret, whether it’s making drunk texts to ex-loved…
“Will you find your own way or will you be pulled by the winds of the Dragon Vein Vortexes?” Leonardo da Vinci to Jeanne Kaguya d’Arc
Jeanne Kaguya d’Arc (the one who hears voices) is whisked…
Autumn Season 2016 – the leaves are falling and just as we finish watching and discussing Mob Psycho 100 or Re:Zero or Sweetness and Lightning, the anime studios are already tempting us …
Arata Kusaga’s life changes when the sun turns black and his world (ours?) – and his beloved cousin Hijiri – are swallowed up by the Breakdown Phenomen. Gifted with a grimoire by Hijiri, Arata …