Tag: cinema
It’s weird to think it has been eight years since I last got to sample a Naoko Yamada production via the amazing A Silent Voice. That film blew me away with it’s simultaneously touching and gripping depiction of adolescence....
20 years ago saw the airing of Gundam SEED Destiny, the sequel to the phenomenally successful Gundam SEED. Designed to usher Gundam into the newly dawned century, it was unsurprising when the second series was followed by news of...
After having premiered in Japan this January and claiming the record for most successful theatrical outing in the franchise, Anime Limited will be bringing Gundam SEED Freedom to select cinemas in the UK and Ireland this March.
After almost two decades of...
Any sizeable pop culture franchise will likely reach the point where it has at least one piece of lost media, an instalment lost to time. Reasons for this vary but all tend to stem from behind the scenes politics....
In the near future the internet has evolved into U, a massive virtual reality second existence where avatars are created based on user's biometric data. The most popular celebrity in U is Belle, a breathtakingly beautiful and talented singer....
During the global COVID-19 pandemic the entertainment industry has had to find new solutions. Although various productions have been delayed, some inventive opportunities have emerged. One of these is Screen Anime, a UK and Ireland focused online streaming anime...
Anime Limited have announced their acquisition of distribution rights covering the UK, Ireland and France for Masaaki Yuasa's latest film INU-OH. An adaptation of Hideo Furukawa's novel Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh, the film is described thusly:
Inu-Oh was born with unique...
It’s been a while since Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name took the world by storm. An imaginative and heart breaking love story that pretty much everybody had praise for and raised the question of what exactly he’d produce next? The...
Surprising as it may seem, it’s now been half a decade since the animated adaptation of Gundam Unicorn came to an end. An animated adaptation of the pre-war chapters of The Origin would follow soon after but sadly doesn’t...
Mamoru Hosoda is a globally celebrated animation director, known for his vibrant character animation and tales where reality meets the fantastic. Both these elements are on display in his latest title, Mirai.
Kun is the spoilt child of a Japanese...