And off I go to Glasgow to introduce the films in the first leg of this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival, which features post-apocalyptic lesbian vampires, a samurai ballerina, a loveable Italian stalker, doomed teenage nurses, talking swamp-gas, a condemned fireworks factory (what could possibly go wrong…?), Rashomon with school kids (although the director says it’s not Rashomon) and a welcome return from everybody’s favourite toxic-blooded lady ninja.

And that’s just the staff. What’s it really like? It’s sort of like this: