How Do We Live? Never would I have imagined back when I reviewed When Marnie Was There in 2014 that, in the current year of 2024, I would be reviewing yet another Studio Ghibli film directed once again by one of its renowned leaders and figure-heads in the form of …
Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Fire There’s no denying that, once-upon-a-time, My Hero Academia was the eye-catching Shōnen babe that proudly stood tall amongst its other Shōnen sweethearts due to not only its simple-yet-effective super-heroic milieu, but how it insolently boasts its inviting premise in manner that …
Rewarded Revenge Alongside the medium’s way of enticing me with its fantastical flourishes, expression and fluency in the unique animation style it so proudly bestows, another manner in which anime has always appealed to me is its craft in story-telling and how there are a plethora of different sub-genre of …
Rekindled Love? Truth be told, within recent years of viewing different films and television series, my once keen fidelity into scoping and watching an anime series that immediately catches my attention isn’t as potent as it should be. As much as the long-running anime series of Attack On Titan, Demon …
Emotionalism And Growth What’s feasible to comprehend on this current generation of anime, in particular the shonen strain of shows, is how varied the aforesaid sub-genre has become and how much more accepted it is to generally watch series that are formulaic, yet self-aware in presenting motifs that audiences can …
Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice… In looking back at my preceding Film Review of Your Name published four year ago now, and what I subsequently went onto mention in regards to the landscape of the Japanese animated landscape seamlessly changing ever since Hayao Miyazaki seemed to had departed from the directing …
Fuelling The Fire Despite it being one the anime scene for a few years, it’s safely arguable to affirm how much Kohei Hirokoshi’s manga and Studio Bones’ series of My Hero Academia is a conception that’s gained both fan and critical acclaim and has steadily risen to point of it …
Hitchcock in Disguise? In having the pleasure in discoursing through the many differentiating intricacies of Japanese animation, whether it’s through my own thesis work on Hayao Miyazaki’s palpable economical and thematic influence on Western film-making or simply writing a review of a specific anime that has caught my personal attention, …
Reinventing The Norm? Admittedly, whilst I’ve had the pleasure in viewing the likes of both The Promised Neverland and Attack On Titan this year which have each respectively presented narrative formats filled with suspense, mystery and awe, it can’t be helped to mention how lacking I’ve pursued myself in viewing …
Profound Transition While it seems as though the lauded anime series of Attack On Titan has been around for a rather long time, it’s uncanny really how the said Tetsurō Araki animated series only released six years ago – back in 2013; a year in which the Harlem Shake was …
