Flashbacks Galore? Truly, gone are the years now where the general audience view the Japanese Animated medium as a visual outlook that is ‘niche’. While notable works by Studio Ghibli, especially in the past and more recently earmarked by Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, have long paved the …
Galloping for Glory? Out of the many and varied film franchises that I have been blessed to have been brought-up on, it’s fair to suggest that The Lord of the Rings series of films still reigns in cinematic supreme compared to other adored features of yesteryear. Indeed, whilst I was …
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 …
The Films/Anime I’m Looking Out For Well…This is a rather peculiar yet familiar position I found myself in as I am currently writing this. While it has been nearly a year since I last wrote a single word about a film or anything which had caught my fancy at the …
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 …
