A Silent Voice, also known as Koe no Katachi and also translated as The Shape of Voice is the latest romantic drama film from director Naoko Yamada and animated by Kyoto Animation. It’s full of emotion, has a diverse cast of characters and contains themes not often expressed in anime. The story follows a teenage boy, Shoya Ishida, who in … Read More
Mary And The Witch’s Flower is the first film released by famed Japanese animation studio, Studio Ponoc. At first look you could easily be mistaken thinking this was the latest film out of Studio Ghibli. Containing fluent animation, incredible backgrounds and similar character designs. That assessment wouldn’t be entirely incorrect though, Studio Ponoc was founded in 2015 after Studio Ghibli … Read More
Planned To Hit Screens In 2018 Announced at Jump Festa 18, an annual event held by Shonen Jump publisher Shueisha to showcase various anime and game titles was a new Dragon Ball movie. So far the movie has just been revealed to be a big celebration of the franchise, being the 20th Dragon Ball film. No trailer or visuals were … Read More
A Must Play For All JRPG Fans Recently awarded Best RPG of 2017 at last week’s Game Awards. We decided we want to give someone the chance to experience this masterpiece so we’re doing a Persona 5 Giveaway, giving you the chance to win a copy of Persona 5 on PS4. LIKE our Facebook page and complete your entry on … Read More
A Long Time Coming Crunchyroll have revealed the first trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card. Morio Asaka is returning from the first television anime series and two films to direct the new series at Madhouse with CLAMP still working on the writing, character and card designs. The series is due to premiere on January 7th … Read More
If you grew up as a 90’s kid like me, there’s a good chance that you spent some of your mornings waking up early to catch the Digimon series. It was a pre-school ritual for me and got me out of bed early even on the weekends. The Digimon series was initially stamped as a Pokemon clone. While there are … Read More
Three Leaves, Three Colors is a slice of life anime revolving around the everyday lives of three high school girls. Yoko Nishikawa has recently had to adopt the life of a poor person after her father’s company goes bankrupt. Giving up the maids and butlers completely and attending a regular high school. Yoko initially finds it hard to drop her … Read More
Fair Warning: While this review won’t go deep into any plot spoilers, I do urge people interested in watching Your Name to go in knowing as little as possible about the plot. Just know that it’s a brilliant film, go and watch it if you haven’t seen it and then come back. Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) is the … Read More
Often cited as “the next Miyazaki” by many that view his films (even though I’ve heard he doesn’t necessarily liked being called so), Mamoru Hosoda’s latest film The Boy And The Beast is the closest yet to something you would see come out of Studio Ghibli. It has great characters, colourful environments, worlds that run parallel to the human world … Read More
In most types of modern entertainment there are trusted people that when attached to a project or piece of work you know it has a high chance of being great due to past achievements, whether that be your favourite actor, author or film director. In recent years, Mamoru Hosoda has truly cemented himself as one of the best directors in … Read More