How anime imagines the afterlife
Visions of heaven, hell and the realms between have been cropping up in our stories since stories have been recorded, and almost definitely before that. We are cursed with [...]
Angel Beats!
Revival reveries: our top five anime that need a sequel
Who would have thought we’d be hanging out with Cardcaptor Sakura again, after all this time? It’s a special feeling to be reunited with a show and characters [...]
Forget me not: anime’s amnesia problem
Tropes help form the vital architecture that enables a storyteller to weave a narrative, but in so doing they become part of a wider dialogue. Art, as they say, doesn’t [...]
Jun Maeda’s True Angel Beats! manga to follow spin-off Heaven’s Door
The manga spin-off to the original 2010 anime Angel Beats!, Jun Maeda and Yuriko Asami’s Angel Beats! Heaven’s Door, ends in this month’s issue [...]
Update: CLANNAD and Charlotte writer Jun Maeda needs heart transplant despite being discharged from hospital
Jun Maeda, writer and composer for visual novel studio Visual Art’s/Key, was hospitalised late in February this year, but on July 2nd, he posted on Twitter to let his [...]
Event: Hyper Japan comes to London’s Olympia this Friday
The Hyper Japan festival is coming to the Olympia in London this weekend, bringing otaku fun, games and merch in their Game & Anime Park area, and with Crunchyroll and [...]
Event: Vocaloid IA returns to Hyper Japan this year
The Hyper Japan festival has announced another beloved musical guest, after welcoming My Neighbour Totoro singer Azumi Inoue. The sweet Vocaloid IA, who also made an [...]
Charlotte and CLANNAD scenario writer Jun Maeda hospitalised
The visual novel and anime writer/composer Jun Maeda recently posted on Twitter notifying his followers that he has been in hospital since Monday. His exact illness hasn’t [...]
