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 …
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 …
Just Your Ordinary Kick-Ass Anime Film Ma’am! When you look at ‘Animation’ as a whole in this present day, it is highly arguable to state that the overall market for animation, is particularly advertised and monopolised by family members. In no way shape or form am I saying that this is a …
The Best Of The Rest? I think it’s fair to say that throughout ‘Anime’ history, there really hasn’t been an ‘Anime’ show that has offered up a unique concept in terms of implementing an original style that is near to perfect other than Cowboy bebop. It’s truly amazing and cool that Cowboy …
What Devotees Wanted? It’s weird to think that in this present day that Pokemon, A Nintendo prized gaming Gem and a popular kids animated T.V series is very much still around and is still popular. If you don’t know, I am 20 years old, so pretty much I was one …
Intangible Marriage Of Styles It’s interesting looking at Netflix in this time and day and realising just how many different type of T.V/Films they have an offer that surprisingly can be 90% of the time be really good. The one kind of downside to the content that they don’t offer a lot …
