This article originally appeared in Newtype USA magazine in August 2003. I have always felt a trifle guilty for not previously acknowledging Carl Gustav Horn, from whom I’m pretty sure I stole the “T-shirt” comment.
The Eyes of Texas
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
One to Tango
A new extract from Schoolgirl Milky Crisis. An article from Newtype USA in 2006 about Japan’s dwindling child population.
N-N-N-N-Nineteen
This article first appeared in Newtype USA in October 2007.
Theater of the Absurd
This article was originally written for the August 2008 issue of the cancelled PiQ magazine. It is publishedhere for the first time.
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Grave Mistakes
Isao Takahata’s Grave of the Fireflies is one of the pinnacles of modern anime, and arguably the greatest of the war-story sub-genre. Its live-action TV remake is, well… a travesty. Made in 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the war, this NTV drama special plays not as an adaptation of the original novel, but as a homage and commentary on the anime classic.
Questions from the Big Giant Heads (Part Five)
Foley Moley
Courtesy of the Big Giant Heads, here’s another extract from Schoolgirl Milky Crisis; an article that originally appeared in Newtype USA back in 2005.