Don’t Lose Heart, Jinx!!!, There’s Nothing to be Afraid of, Yokohama Story,...
This week has consisted of me working or writing future trailer posts because next week I’ll be at the gallery every day plus I’m starting the winter 2014 anime season guide for AUKN… I am very much...
View ArticleMore Japanese Gothic: Kuroneko and The Ghost Story of Yotsuya at the BFI...
Winter is a time for ghost stories and the BFI has its Gothic season underway across various venues in the UK. The real meat is down in London where there are lots of talks and films that three...
View ArticleRepublic of Thieves Read-Along Week Four
Hello once again dear audience and welcome to the penultimate Republic of Thieves read-along where revelations are revealed, Sabetha and Locke get closer to doing the horizontal tango and there were...
View ArticleKyousogiga I Love You
Kyousogiga has been mentioned on this blog multiple times, the first was with the ONA that was released back in 2011 followed by a joyous post when I found out that the one-shot ONA was due to get...
View ArticleIt All Began When I Met You, Madame Marmalade’s Mysterious Puzzle Answer...
I’m splitting this trailer post up again but not because there’s too many in number but too many interesting films. The real meat comes tomorrow but just ahead of their release is one great looking...
View ArticleThe Story of Princess Kaguya, Tamako in Moratorium, The Extreme Sukiyaki,...
This is my second trailer post of the week! The first post contained a quirky selection of titles but this is where we get to the big names, anime and alternative programming. In anime terms we have...
View ArticleDoctor Who 50th Episode The Day of the Doctor
The War Doctor (John Hurt): “Hello” Doctor Who (David Tennant): “I’m the Doctor” Doctor Who (Matt Smith): “Sorry about the Dalek” Clara: “Also the showing off” Spoilers (slight ones, at least)...
View ArticleRepublic of Thieves Read-Along Week Five
Hello once again dear audience and welcome to the final Republic of Thieves read-along post where the curtain is brought down on Sabetha and Locke’s romance, the play in Espara and the election in...
View ArticleSamurai Flamenco’s Turning Point
Massive Spoilers It has been five days but I’m still trying to recover from episode seven of Samurai Flamenco. In the future, when humanity lives in their sky cities maintained by tsundere robotic...
View ArticleSamurai Flamenco Loses the Plot?
This is a reaction post to episode 8 and it follows up yesterday’s post analysing my thoughts on the direction of the series because… Samurai Flamenco has truly gone off the map? I’m still trying to...
View ArticleSPEC: Close – Crisscross Version, Asa Hiru Ban, Story of a Butcher Shop...
I’m splitting the trailer post up again and will continue doing this because it’s better to have shorter posts than huge ones with lots of videos and text. There are three Japanese films released today...
View ArticleGhost in the Shell: ARISE border:2 Ghost Whispers, Flying Bodies – a Hiroyuki...
This week was a bit of a transitional period, wrapping up the Republic of Thieves read-along, sating my desire to write about Samurai Flamenco and getting my reactions before and after episodes 7 and...
View ArticleGenki Christmas Season 2013
This is my annual Christmas season post but I should be honest and call it the catch-up season. Last year I was able to watch lots of Korean horror films but this year I will be posting lots of...
View ArticleLog Horizon
Log Horizon Director: Shinji Ishihara, Series Composition: Toshizo Nemoto, Original Creator: Mamare Touno, Character Designer/Chief Animation Director: Mariko Ito, Art Director: Yuki Nomura, Story:...
View ArticleSake-Bomb
Sake-Bomb Seen as part of the Raindance Film Festival Running Time: 91 mins. Director: Junya Sakino Writer: Jeff...
View ArticleGenkina Hito Interviews the Director of Sake-Bomb
While I was at the Raindance Independent Film Festival 2013 I got the chance to interview two directors. The first one I interviewed was Junya Sakino, director of Sake-Bomb which I reviewed yesterday....
View ArticleAsk This of Rikyu, A Girl in the Apple Farm, Passion, Lupin the Third vs....
The first trailer post for December is a continuation of my breaking the weekend releases into two posts because there are usually a lot of releases for readers to wade through. I would normally chuck...
View Article1BR Love Hotel, Chai Koi, Kissing, 008, Tokyo Bitch I Love You, Nice!, In the...
I spent this week getting the Genki Christmas season reviews underway in the build-up to my films and anime of the year! First I actually had to make the announcement of my Genki Christmas season...
View ArticleGigan Magazine
I’ve briefly mentioned that I write for Gigan magazine in previous posts but neglected to tell you guys just what it is. Gigan magazine is named after a monster that fought Godzilla. The magazine is...
View ArticleGenkina Hito’s Winter 2014 Anime Selection
My Winter 2014 season preview is up and running on Anime UK News and while writing it I noticed that the number of shows was up on previous years and that among them are a nice selection of titles...
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