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The rise and stall of motor racing anime

The history of motor racing is itself a history of the automobile industry. The dawn of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine in the late 1800s fired the starting [...]
The post-war kids: anime after annihilation

1952 was a key year in Japan’s cultural identity, marking the end of the American occupation and the publication of the first chapter of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. With [...]
The cute corruption of the anime zombie

Zombies provide an outlet for that most mortal of fears and fascinations; death, and what comes after. It’s a universal thread that’s tugged by all cultures, linking all [...]
Making sense of my pregnancy through anime

It’s not just strangers, family or friends who see me differently now; every aspect of my life and view of myself has been altered by the fact that I’m a mother. During [...]
The comfort and companionship of AI in anime

In time, artificial intelligence could make our art, provide our services, and learn our means of thought. It will alter the nature of creativity, relationships and life [...]

Tainted love: top five anime mad scientists

September 15, 2019

We all love a mad scientist. They’re extraordinary, tormented souls who accomplish the sorts of feats that we could only dream of, if not make us wake up in cold sweats in [...]
The odd couple: our favourite unlikely anime friendships
Revival reveries: our top five anime that need a sequel

Review: Kizumonogatari Part 3 – Reiketsu

September 9, 2019

I’ll be the first to admit that my viewing of the Monogatari franchise is patchy at best. Over the years I’ve reviewed parts of it for this site (see here, here and here) and for other publications. In all those years I’ve built up an admiration for the anime, and the three-part Kizumonogatari film series may be the franchise at its most disturbing and sublime. The movies together serve as a prequel to the beloved Bakemonogatari, the first of studio SHAFT’s adaptions of Nisio Isin’s [...]
Review: Devils and Realist Collection
Review: Eromanga-sensei Volume 1
Review: Okko’s Inn
Review: UQ Holder!

Why watch … given?

September 13, 2019

given is, in many ways, like one of its central characters, Mafuyu – quiet, distant, full of pain, regret and longing and beautiful to behold. Like most of us, Mafuyu carries his emotional baggage around with him, only in his case its physical; a guitar. All spoilers aside, it’s clear from the outset that this guitar has an emotional significance as he hugs it, sleeps with it and carries it everywhere. He can’t even play, but that’s the catalyst needed to ignite a relationship with [...]
Why watch … Laid-Back Camp?
Why watch … Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens?
Why watch … Hakumei and Mikochi?
Why watch … A Place Further than the Universe?

The rise and stall of motor racing anime