Archive for September, 2011
Posted on September 17, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, comics, events, history, Japan, manga | Tags: anime, Candy Candy, Cannon Fodder, China, Cool Japan, Force Five, Hakujaden, Lao Tzu, Macross, manga, Maya The Bee, Rose of Versailles, SMAP, soft power, Star Blazers, Toei Animation |
Japn’s “soft diplomacy” has come a long way – from ‘Hakujaden’ in 1958 to SMAP in Beijing in 2011. But can a pop song, a cosplay, or an urgent desire to make manga outside Japan really change the world?
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Posted on September 11, 2011. Filed under: anime, manga, Japan, Consuming, comics, events, history | Tags: anime, manga, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, World War II, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, calligraphy, Shaolin, contemporary dance, Sadler's Wells, Taiki Ueda, Tsubasa Horie, Kodo, Park Woo Jae, Olga Wajciechowska, Asano Taiko, Nitin Sawhney, Tosui Suzuki, Sasa Kovacevic, Bonnie Bassler |
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s new work TeZukA premiered at Sadler’s Wells last week. It opens a door into manga for a whole new audience.
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Posted on September 2, 2011. Filed under: anime, books, Consuming, films, history, Japan | Tags: Barbican Japanimation, Borrower Arrietty, dancing about architecture, Hayao Miyazaki, John Lydgate, Mai Mai Miracle, Makoto Shinkai, Mary Norton, My Neighbor Totoro, Optimum Releasing, Ponyo, Sunao Katabuchi |
Comparing three recent anime movies: odious or enriching? A contest where Hayao Miyazaki comes in third means three films well worth watching.
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