another anime movie review

By Andrew Osmond. March comes in like a lion resists obvious categorisation. You could call it a “slice of life” anime, but that’s a pretty useless heading these days; Wikipedia’s list of such anime covers everything from Azumanga Daioh to A Centaur’s Life via From Up on Poppy Hill. Pinpointing March more, I’d say it’s […] http://dlvr.it/Slhsnz

by Jeremy Clarke. This animated feature based on six Haruki Murakami short stories comes not, as you might expect, from Japan, but rather from one of the few other countries that can reasonably be said to have an animation industry: France. Writer-director Pierre Földes, whose father Peter is an award-winning animator, further confounds expectations by […] http://dlvr.it/SlWzrf

By Jonathan Clements. Ironically, there is nothing new about the plot of Rootport’s Cyberpunk Peach John. Despite a media frenzy about the way it was created, a year’s worth of colour artwork assembled in just a couple of months by a pseudonymous creator using artificial intelligence software, the story itself is as old as the […] http://dlvr.it/SlNrVl

By Tom Wilmot. It wasn’t so long ago that Gakuryu Ishii was a somewhat obscure figure in the West, despite being one of Japan’s most influential modern filmmakers. However, with the director’s seminal punk films Crazy Thunder Road (1980) and Burst City (1982) receiving stacked Blu-ray releases in recent years, Ishii is experiencing something of […] http://dlvr.it/SlCm5V

By Shelley Pallis. Back in town for the summer vacation, would-be medical student Toto is reunited with his former middle-school bestie, Roma. In the intervening months, their roles have been reversed – Roma was once the sophisticated city-slicker transplanted to Hicksville, but now he’s just a farmer’s boy who has to muck out the cows, […] http://dlvr.it/SkvVG0

Sight and Sound's "Greatest Films of All Time" list for 2022 may not have featured anime at the top of the list, but the growth of the medium speaks to its increased footprint in film canon and popular culture. http://dlvr.it/SklRXk

Takahiro Kimura, who died on 5th March, first got the idea that animation might be the career for him when he saw episodes of Armoured Trooper VOTOMS and Blue Meteor SPT Layzner in his student days. “As for the university,” he later remembered, “well, I realised that if I wanted to graduate at the rate […] http://dlvr.it/SkdmpS

By Andrew Osmond. In Levius, boxing meets steampunk; or to put it in anime terms, Megalobox (or Tomorrow’s Joe) meets Fullmetal Alchmist (or Violet Evergarden). It’s a series by the Polygon CG studio, which many readers will know for its space opera, Knights of Sidonia. Like that series, Levius was produced by Netflix and first […] http://dlvr.it/SkbLr6

By Jonathan Clements. Kyoto teenager Naomi Katagaki’s world is invaded by a wholly unexpected arrival – an avatar of his older self, transported from a garish, rainbow coloured other realm to the year 2027, a man on a mission to save a girl’s life. For Naomi’s classmate Ruri is fated to suffer a terrible accident, […] http://dlvr.it/SkXZlp

By Jonathan Clements. In the far future, the human race is extremely long-lived, but infertile. One by one, they are dying off, with no sign of a solution. In a last-ditch effort to find an answer, a cyborg agent is dispatched below ground, to the wainscot society of artificial creatures that were once the servants […] http://dlvr.it/SkNQwY

By Andrew Osmond. Over The Sky, a cinema fantasy adventure, is a close relative to Keiichi Hara’s 2019 film Birthday Wonderand. They’re both family-friendly anime, without violence or vulgarity, though Over the Sky has threats and even anguish in its closing stretch. They’re both films about teenage girls entering fantasy otherworlds that do not use, […] http://dlvr.it/SkD3Rq

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, but the time is nigh to catch-up on what to expect from the coming month here at Anime Limited, as we move inexorably towards the second quarter, which of course includes April hosting our annual spring sale. We’ll have more on that and the dates […] http://dlvr.it/SkBypQ