To Heroism And Beyond Escapism. This is a construct which avid anime-lovers and manga-readers strive to look for in Japanese animated shows and feature-length films that not only bestow palpable grandeur, but instil story-lines which audiences can personally relate with. For sure, ever since the West have come to acknowledge …
The End Of The Road? While it can’t go unnoticed how many ‘popular’ anime’s of the past and recent history warrant blaring problems of their own, as seen within one of ‘the big three’ in Noriyuki Abe’s Bleach which, although established a rather intriguing premise for a shōnen in its first sixty …
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 …
