More Than Meets The Eye If there’s one genre of Japanese animation that engulfs the viewing gaze of the West and, as such, has become the perception of general anime viewing, it is that of the Shōnen animation series. In being primarily aimed at the pre-teen and teenage boy demographic, Shōnen animated …
Patience Is A Virtue In similar vain to how popular film franchises have to construct sequels to be just as compelling and enthralling as the preceding features that made a positive impact, T.V. series also have to establish a precedent where the particular story arc has to go down a …
Anime For The Masses? If there’s one thing to note in relation to the films that are shown today and the many different film-making practises that are utilised, it’s how much directors ‘pay homage’ to other works that have come to print their mark on this lauded artistic medium. As …
Leaving You Wanting More As much as the likes of Attack On Titan, Sword Art Online and One Punch Man have maintained the arguable notion that Japanese animation still has a viability towards Western audiences due to their respective popularity, it’s still disconcerting to come across a ‘lesser-known’ anime in this present day that would …
Stamping A New Future For Japanese Animation? Ever since one of the great conjurer’s of animation, Hayao Miyazaki, departed from the directing high-chair in 2013, after making what was meant to be his last feature film in The Wind Rises, the most loyal of audiences have been pursuing a successor for …
Ghibli In Disguise? Shinchiro Watanabe, Mamoru Oshii, Osumu Tezuka, Satoshi Kon, Makoto Shinkai, Isao Takahata and of course, Hayao Miyazaki. These are the many different Japanese animation directors that have each laid the ground-work for what Japanese animation represents in the West and how much they’ve all changed the way …
Zombies Meet Attack On Titan? More and more, whether it is within the medium of Video-Games, T.V. or films, the genre’s of horror and or dystopian-sci-fi, have indeed flooded our personal viewing space. Whether you like them or not, for the past 5 to 10 years, it’s arguable that we’ve …
A Fitting Swansong For Ghibli’s Final Bow Just recently, I did a one-off Blog Post about ending sequences and climaxes to films and how the best of these closing scenes, can simply manage to not only finish-off the contextual aspect of the narrative, but also provide meaning and emphasis towards …
Wasted Potential It’s not really surprising to state firstly that anime and video games over the years, whether it is within a Japanese animated film or T.V. show, that both entertainment mediums very much work in conjunction with each other. The obvious examples I have mentioned in the past, such …
A Mine-Field of Violence and Fluidity I think it’s fair to say that you don’t normally see anime get the acclaims that it normally doesn’t get but should do. Obviously in terms of the filming world, the films that Hayao Miyazaki has constructed for Studio Ghibli is the main example of how …
