Posted on October 24, 2010. Filed under: anime, appearances, costume, events, manga, travel, writing | Tags: Akira, anime, Anime Los Angeles, Anime UK, Christopher Priest, Eastcon 90, Eastercon, Fist of the North Star, Fred Patten, Gerry Anderson, Katsuhiro Otomo, Los Angeles, manga, Manga Entertainment, Peter Goll, Philip Strick, science fiction, Space Battleship Yamato, Star Trek Correspondence Club |
Helen’s fannish past is long gone, but not forgotten, as a recent convention invitation shows.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Posted on March 12, 2010. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, Japan | Tags: Alice Walker, Anne Geddes, Astro Boy, Denis Friedman Productions, Gisaburo Sugii, Hakujaden, Harmagedon, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Katsuya Terada Rakugaking, M. C. Escher, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Madhouse, Mai Mai Miracle, Metropolis, My Neighbour Totoro, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Neo-Tokyo Manie Manie Labyrinth Tales, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Osamu Tezuka, Ponyo, Rintaro, Salvador Dali, Sunao Katabuchi, The Peanuts, Toei Animation, Tomoko Konparu |
Rintaro has made a masterpiece for children that adults can enjoy. Not since My Neighbour Totoro has a film aroused Helen McCarthy’s sense of wonder in the same way.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Posted on August 10, 2009. Filed under: anime, comics, Consuming, Japan, manga | Tags: Anime Encyclopedia, Barbara, Be-Boy magazine, Captain Tsubasa, Club Dorothee, Editions Asuka, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, Marilyn Monroe, Nicole Kidman, Olive et Tom, Osamu Tezuka |
France is the land of romance – more so than ever, with the launch of a French edition of Be-Boy magazine.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Posted on July 5, 2009. Filed under: anime, comics, Consuming, films, Japan, manga | Tags: 2007 Japan box office, Akihiko Shiota, Akira, Ally Kerr, anime, Artland, Barbican, Domu, Dororo, Hiroshi Nagahama, Joe Odagiri, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, movie, Mushishi, Norobu Ishiguro, Osamu Tezuka, Peter Jackson Effect, Phoenix, Satoshi Kon, Sitges Film FEstival, Steam Boy, Takahide Shibanushi, Yuki Urushibara |
Mushishi is a magical manga which was turned into a magical animated series by the craftsman at Artland. When Katsuhiro Otomo re-made it as a live action movie, there was certainly no lack of magic. Logic, however, turned out to be a more important ingredient than might have been assumed.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Posted on May 27, 2009. Filed under: anime, films | Tags: Adolescence of Utena, anime, Barbican, DeForest Kelley, gender issues, Gene Roddenberry, Harry Potter, High School Musical, J.J. Abrams, Karl Urban, Katsuhiro Otomo, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Mushishi, relationships, Simon Pegg, Spock, Star Trek, Utena, Zachary Quinto |
one was absolutely a boys’ movie and the other just as absolutely a girls’ movie, in terms of aims, methods and viewpoints, and yet both were enjoyable for the opposite gender…
Harriet Potter at the Chalet School, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in his little known Rococo Barbie period.
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