Galaxy Express 999 would have been 10-year-old me’s absolute favourite movie ever, if I’d had the chance as a kid to see it. As a UK-based anime fan, I’ve not had the same opportunities as my North American contemporaries to experience the works of legendary, and now sadly-missed, creator Leiji…

Studio P.A. Works have a formula for their “Working Series”, and Komada: A Whisky Family is their fifth installment — albeit in relatively shortened, movie format. Every previous entry in the loosely-linked series has included a 24-to-26-episode TV anime, starting in 2011 with Hanasaku Iroha (sequel movie in 2013), and…

Let me say this first — I am not a huge jazz fan. It’s not that I dislike it, it’s that I’m mostly ignorant. I don’t listen to jazz music for fun, but I like to think I can appreciate skilfully performed music. Blue Giant follows the ups and downs…

The second movie I watched at this year’s Scotland Loves Anime film festival in Edinburgh is very different to the first. Lonely Castle in the Mirror was two hours of deep adolescent angst that left me emotionally exhausted. …

Keiichi Hara isn’t one of those most widely recognised anime directors, but he reliably produces an excellent movie every few years. Once a slave to the yearly production cycle on annual Crayon Shin-chan movies, he finally broke out into more independent, creative territory with 2007’s Summer Days with Coo. In…

Earlier in the week, I covered this heavily-packed anime season’s new shows. Now it’s the turn of the voluminous number of sequels and ongoing shows we’ve been blessed with. There are so many, it’s kind of overwhelming, and once again I’ve had to be ruthless in choosing what to watch… …

It’s that time in the anime season where I take stock, and let you know which new shows I think are worth recommending, and which are either hot garbage or boring drivel. I’ll cover ongoing shows and sequels in a separate article. As the Autumn 2023 season is so absolutely…

For the final, final, (honest) final time, with Kara no Kyoukai: Future Gospel: Extra Chorus, we come to the end of studio ufotable’s animated adaptations of TYPE-MOON co-founder Kinoko Nasu’s novels. Except this 32-minute film is based on three doujinshi manga chapters, and attendees at the original theatrical run (where…

Although studio ufotable’s Kara no Kyoukai film series (an adaptation of TYPE-MOON co-founder Kinoko Nasu’s trio of late 1990’s novels) ended in 2011 with the OVA epilogue (chapter 8), they weren’t done with the story. Two years later, ufotable returned with sequel movie Future Gospel, an adaptation of Nasu’s 2008…