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• The Last Chapter
  on Mar 18, 2010 in Film 1UP 20th Century Boys Death Note James Mielke Manga Monster Naoki Urasawa Q Entertainment
  This is kinda long winded and I don’t suppose it really matters but here’s how I came across 20th Century Boys. To begin with, I hadn’t ever read a manga before, I was far too much of a literary snob to take any interest in them in...
• Basilisk
  on Mar 16, 2010 in Television Afro Samurai Animé AnimeTV Japan Neon Genesis Evangelion Revision3
  Along with watching “The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God” I’ve also been distracting myself with an old animated show from Japan called Basilisk. It was reviewed recently on AnimeTV and having never heard of it before I thoug...
• The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God
  on Mar 16, 2010 in Film Girls On Film Japan Japan Foundation London Ryuhei Matsuda Sheffield The Foreign Duck The Native Duck And God Train
  On the three hour train journey back to Sheffield from London, I decided that I’d fill the time with a film. I’ve been sitting on “The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God” for a while now. I only picked it up on the loose d...
• Jonny Greenwood
  on Mar 14, 2010 in Film Literature Music Anh Hung Tran Haruki Murakami Jonny Greenwood Norwegian Wood Radiohead The Guardian There Will Be Blood
  The Guardian report that Jonny Greenwood from my favourite band, Radiohead will make a return to film scoring. He’d previously worked on “There Will Be Blood”, for which he received a Grammy-nomination. What’s the new film he...
• Tokyo Glow
  on Feb 28, 2010 in Film Japan Stop-Motion Tokyo Tokyo Mango Video
  I came across this short stop motion video that I thought I should share with you all. (Thanks, TokyoMango)...
• Akihabara Majokko Princess
  on Feb 25, 2010 in Art Music Exhibition Japan Kirsten Dunst McG Music Video Pop Life Takashi Murakami The Vapours Tokyo
  The McG, Takashi Murakami and Kirsten Dunst collaboration video has finally surfaced online. I found it through Trends In Japan, check it out (if only to check out Kirsten Dunst, I’ve had a crush on her since forever).
• Vimeo
  on Feb 18, 2010 in Film 2009 25 List Video Vimeo
  The creative video sharing website, Vimeo compiled a list of their favourite user creations from last year, some of them are absolutely gorgeous. Below are some of my favourites.
• Panelfly
  on Feb 13, 2010 in Literature Technology Akira Alan Moore App Store Apple Death Note iPad iPhone Katsuhiro Otomo Manga Monster Naoki Urusawa Panelfly Robert Kirkman Takeshi Obata The Walking Dead The Watchmen Tsugumi Ohba
  Much like the iPhone, I wasn’t quite convinced with Apple’s first attempt although I would still have described it as a ‘game-changer‘. It wasn’t until subsequent iterations and more importantly the App Store that the iP...
• Art Of Akira
  on Feb 12, 2010 in Art Design Film Akira Animé Exhibition Gallery Japan Katsuhiro Otomo Manga
  Akira belongs in my list of top ten films of all time, straddling somewhere near the very precipice, it’s certainly my favourite animation ever created. A lot of people have been inspired by Akira and one fan in particular hopes to set up an e...
• Norwegian Wood Pictures
  on Feb 10, 2010 in Film Haruki Murakami J D Salinger Norwegian Wood The Catcher In The Rye Tran Anh Hung Wildgrounds
  You may vaguely remember me talking about the news that Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, was soon to be turned into a film by Tran Anh Hung. Since then not much has been heard about the production until now, with Wildgrounds coming to the re...

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