Entries from October 2007

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Anime Films, Then and Now:

Anime commonly takes the form of thirteen, twenty-six and fifty-two episode series - with the majority appearing on Japanese, and increasingly on foreign television sets.
Most anime fans have also enjoyed the feature-length films that have come out of Japan though - which are a mainstay of anime, regardless of whether they are the standard or [...]

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Box sets, So what about quality?

Over the past two years the Anime industry has gone from strength to strength. Almost every area of the DVD market has undergone some sort of change or development in the last 24 months. I’m trying to think of anything that hasn’t been tinkered with but I’m firing blanks [sic].
So today I’m going to take [...]

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Fan culture and hype ruining anime?

In a time when the pursuit of anime was often limited to a couple of beardy old men and a third-generation video tape, I can’t imagine they spent much (if any) time arguing over what to watch; simply that it was Japanese and animated was enough; after all, beggars can’t be choosers. 15 long years [...]

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Music and Translation - A dying art?

Since this is my first post on this brand spanking new blog I decided to cover an issue that I had completely forgotten about until a few days ago. As I was roaring along the road running over various species of wildlife and pensioners one of Gwen Stefani’s records came on the radio. As you [...]