Those of you who have been with me for a while may have read that I didn’t get on with Hi-Score Girl. So when the series returned with a 9 episode run for a second season, I didn’t immediately jump on it. My issues with it were mainly with the lead character, Haruo, whom I […]
Category: Anime
Spirited Away
On Friday I had the pleasure of seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away at the cinema, its not my favourite Miyazaki (or Studio Ghibli) movie, that goes to Princess Mononoke, but its not often that many of us get to see these films on the big screen, especially somewhere like Bedford (there’s a showing of Princess […]
Thank fuck the Hollywood Akira is on hold again
Hah! I think that title says it all doesn’t it? For a bit of background, Akira is one of my favourite films of all time, I have a rough top 10 of all time affair, and alot of them move around, but there are two films that are definetly at the top of that table […]
Why don’t I like Hi-Score Girl?
I’ve written this after watching all twelve episodes, plus the three OVA’s but having never read the Manga. Everything I’ve watched is available via Netflix. At its heart Hi-Score Girl is a romantic love triangle, lead character, Haruo Yaguchi, is a videogame obsessed kid who spends every moment he’s not at school in his local […]
Flavors of Youth
Flavors of Youth is an anthology movie, collecting together three short tales (The Rice Noodes, A Little Fashion Show and Love in Shangai) with a core theme of love and loss. Each of the three films is set in a different part of China, although the over riding themes surrounding love and loss encompass friends, […]