The Netflix anime Delicious in Dungeon reminds us that food can be highly political – and that ‘tradition’ can be manufactured.
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Live-action anime adaptations have never been more popular. Yet there are many factors that make them difficult – but not impossible – to pull off.
Big classic romcoms feature alongside some rather more unexpected entries in our special Valentine’s movie list.
The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Pluto follows German robot detective Gesicht as he traces the mysterious killings of robots and humans.
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, the enormously successful Japanese manga and anime franchise, brings the series to a truly global audience.
Sailor Moon has been with us for over 30 years, but the series is still so popular that brands continue producing themed merchandise.
Suzume stands its ground in the large collection of films and literature coming to terms with the memory of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster.
Twenty-five years on from his promise to become “the very best”, Ash Ketchum has won the Pokémon World Championship. But for a franchise that’s always evolving, this is far from the end.
Despite the fact that many of its elements were alien to American audiences, the film became a sensation.
‘Cowboy Bebop’ drew international viewers with its genre-bending fusion of American mafia movies, Italian westerns, Japanese cyberpunk, Hong-Kong style martial arts and its eclectic soundtrack.
It’s widely known as a crowdfunding record-breaker, but the painstaking work to recreate Hiroshima in a new anime film is a nod to its traditional roots.
With the boundaries between film and game eroding, why are more people not exploiting the potential for cross-media creations?
In the wake of the atomic bombs, a number of Japanese animators would question mankind’s relationship with technology.
It is a strange and transitional time in the history of cinema. As the medium itself shifts irreversibly from celluloid to computation, the last generation of true film-makers is gradually, but inevitably…
I’m standing in a line at Brisbane Supanova 2013, a pop culture convention, when I’m approached by a young family with a tiny girl in a sparkly Snow White gown, complete with bright red hair bow. “We were…
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