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Category Archives: Consuming

Media, food, life in general

Two and a Bit Lifetimes: London’s place in manga history

York Watergate
January 13, 2013 150th anniversary Charles Wirgman Christopher Wren Hayao Miyazaki Japan London London Underground manga River Thames Samuel Pepys Victoria Embankment Yokohama Leave a Comment

The Man In The Black Hat: Hayao Miyazaki and the ultimate antagonist

Dead or alive?
January 6, 2013 Amber Spyglass Catbus death and children Hayao Miyazaki Japan My Neighbor Totoro Philip Pullman Studio Ghibli Toshio Suzuki 2 Comments

1963-2013: TV Anime’s Golden Jubilee

Tetsuwan Atom on TV
January 1, 2013 adult anime Astro Boy Ciscorn Oji Eightman Evangelion Fujiko Fujio Galaxy Boy Troop Hideaki Anno Jiro Kuwata Ko Kojima Okami Shonen Ken Osamu Tezuka Sennin Buraku Toei Wolf Boy Ken 1 Comment

New Makoto Shinkai feature-length anime in 2013

Kotonoha no Niwa
December 24, 2012 animation anime Christmas Hayao Miyazaki love Makoto Shinkai Leave a Comment

End of a Golden Year, Start of a Golden Era

Ciscorn Oji manga
December 21, 2012 anime Ciscorn Oji Disney Fujiko Fujio manga Moto Abiko Native American Okami Shonen Ken Osamu Tezuka Toei Wanwan Chushingura Wolf Boy Ken 2 Comments

Studio Ghibli announces new movies from Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata

kazetachinu
December 14, 2012 Hayao Miyazaki Isao Takahata Japan Kaguya-hime Kaze Tachinu Mitsubishi A6M Zero My Neighbours the Yamadas Ponyo Studio Ghibli Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Yamada 4 Comments

Goodbye Jacky

Japanese storybook with images from the anime
December 6, 2012 anime childrens' TV Ernest Thompson Seton Gulliver's Space Travels Hayao Miyazaki Japan Jiro Taniguchi manga Nippon Animation Toei Yoshiharu Imaizumi Yoshio Kuroda 6 Comments

Great and Dreadful Customer Service: same company, same day

December 4, 2012 BT Business consumer experience Customer Management Customer service Daily Mail Daily Telegraph 6 Comments

First Translated Manga?

The dated title page proves it: manga, published in France, in French, in 1970.
December 1, 2012 Budo Europe Magazine comics France Frederik L. Schodt Japan manga Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics Mike Friedrich Richard J. Arndt Star*Reach 5 Comments

Wolf Boy Ken and the year that changed anime

Ken on disc - the theme tunes
November 26, 2012 Astro Boy Edgar Rice Burroughs Gulliver's Space Travels Hayao Miyazaki Isao Takahata Jungle Book Junichi Sato KnacK Productions Mushi Pro Okami Shonen Ken Osamu Tezuka Rudyard Kipling Tarzan Toei 14 Comments

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  • @ImJustGerald Thank you! I had a great time, and without you it wouldn't have been as much fun. Wonderful learning more about music! 5 hours ago
  • RT @io9: Sarah Connor needs to tell Doctor Who there's no fate but what we make on.io9.com/366q8u0 23 hours ago
  • Time to go and take my final bow at#AnimeCentral 2013! 23 hours ago
  • @BadrNasir He was a great director, and a protege of Tezuka (like his brother) so no competition. How does a son surpass his father? 23 hours ago
  • @simona_com So now you can work for the BBC as well... Pity there isn't more cricket in Japan. ;-) 23 hours ago
  • Learning and sharing at my panel on Charles Wirgman & co at #AnimeCentral. Great group of people to share with. 23 hours ago
  • RT @WWEnd: Dead Witch Walking is $2 on North American Kindle Daily Deal, today: j.mp/18VbIQN 23 hours ago
  • @Kosmikat Or maybe it was Smokey Robinson & the Miracles? 1 day ago
  • @Kosmikat Pity nobody ever did a close harmony version of Last Train to Clarksville... 1 day ago
  • @Kosmikat Yes, the follow- up to Midnight Train To Georgia. Great harmony work but the dancing was a bit dodgy. 1 day ago
  • @otaku_news @Reaper_gI @pablo_0151 Hanna-Barbera was one of #Tezuka's models: he had to sell cheap to compete with them in Japan. 1 day ago
  • @Kosmikat Rubbish bus service these days, eh? I can remember when you could get a night bus to Chicago... Or was that just the drugs? 1 day ago
  • @Kosmikat Going to do that very thinks tonight in Chicago. Er, don't suppose you can come & join me? 1 day ago
  • @otaku_news @pablo_0151 But how much something costs isn't always an indicator of how good it is #TalesFromEarthsea 1 day ago
  • @Regris_Kallen No worries, just sorry you weren't well. Wish the venue had been quieter so we could have talked more! 1 day ago
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Helen

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