Aku Karpala (Aku Korhonen) is a super-efficient, polyglot concierge at the high-end Hotel Lyx, who prides himself on always making his customers’ stays go perfectly. He is just preparing for a ...
“I have transitioned into a new animal.” No, not radiation. Not the struggles of war and the agonies of constant trauma, transforming into a rampaging, city-stomping beast. Because that would...
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/25/godzilla-vs-beyonce/
“The ability to buy into the ‘ownership’ of a new anime while it is being made can save a canny investor hundreds of thousands of dollars at the distribution end.” Over at Variety, Mark S...
Up at 0630 for the two-hour drive around the lake to the village where Yang Shaohua has his gallery and workshop. I blunder in late, thanks to having the wrong address, and find him holding court...
Jonathan Clements var ikke helt så tweedklædt og stiff upper lip en brite, som jeg havde forestillet mig. Han var tværtimod en utroligt imødekommende herre i T-shirt og med gråt strithår.
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/14/the-mystery-of-totoro/
A weeping young emperor is escorted to his palanquin by a stern-faced warlord, on the grounds that there are “bandits everywhere.” The warlord in question has already burned another prince al...
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/11/braidhead-caitiffs/
Today’s Sunday Times (paywall) picks my Rebel Island as one of its Five Essential Books on Taiwan. “Jonathan Clements’s Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan takes a concise journe...
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/10/interesting-times-2/
“I had a pretty tough life until I became popular with Maruko. I had so many part-time jobs, and even when I debuted as a voice actor, I was good at being poor, but… I was happy because my vo...
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/09/tarako-1960-2024/
“People often say that drawing on a computer is tasteless,” he once quipped, “but it’s not like I’m creating a work of art!” Over at All the Anime, my obituary for Akira Toriyama, the...
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/08/akira-toriyama-1955-2024/
“There was… an initial explosion of Japanese animation on Chinese television, spearheaded by Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, which Li characterises as a delivery system for adverts for Casio watc...
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2024/03/07/animes-knowledge-cultures/