The Last Blossom isn't just a gangster story. It's a sharp look at 1980s Japan, a vanishing Tokyo skyline, and a heartfelt exploration of what truly matters in life. #scotlandlovesanime www.geeknative.com/2...
It's hard to make a time loop story feel fresh. All You Need Is Kill manages it, right up until the final, surreal moments. A worthy watch. #scotlandlovesanime
How do you follow up a massive Gundam war? Endless Waltz tries with a new revolution and some truly angelic robot designs. Here's our breakdown. #scotlandlovesanime
We checked out Golgo 13: The Professional at Scotland Loves Anime. It's a film that's part artistic masterpiece, part 80s action cheese, and part problematic relic. A strange mix. #scotlandlovesanime
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Kenji Iwaisawa’s 100 Meters maintains but also reframes his drastic shifts from stillness and mundanity to heightened, visceral rotoscoped energy. Another fiery entry into the latest sports anime canon and a celebration of being alive; the Look Back analogies ain’t exactly wrong.
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The Last Blossom - Baku Kinoshita’s endearing style and to a lesser extent a wisecracking balsam bring an eccentric flavour to a small and reserved yet emotionally mighty heartwarmer, that steadily observes sacrifice and the uncertain passage of time, reaching a profound payoff.
Scotland Loves Anime has announced its Edinburgh schedule for November! The festival will run across two iconic venues, the Cameo Picturehouse and the newly reopened Filmhouse. See the full film list and plan your week. #scotlandlovesanime
The Last Blossom
All You Need is Kill
100 Meters
Gridman Universe
London's #ScotlandLovesAnime doesn't appear to offer much in the way of new animation either: it's mostly just repertoires and remasters. Plus, I'm seeing ChaO at LFF. But I will be checking out The Last Blossom, All You Need is Kill, 100 Meters and the UK (theatrical) premiere of Gridman Universe!
Watch @rdfilms5.bsky.social video interview with Shinnosuke Yakuwa director of Totto-Chan: The Little Girl In The Window #anime #ScotlandLovesAnime wp.me/p1L8ZS-13se
Final #ScotlandLovesAnime review @rdfilms5.bsky.social reviews #anime Kuramerukagari >> wp.me/p1L8ZS-13iw
Another #ScotlandLovesAnime review @rdfilms5.bsky.social watched Kurayukaba @Crunchyroll #anime
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We have the final #ScotlandLovesAnime reviews @rdfilms5.bsky.social here's SAND LAND #AkiraToriyama #anime wp.me/p1L8ZS-13io
Shoutouts to the Wi-Fi hotspot chat at the screen room in Scotland Loves Anime, London #SLA2024 #ScotlandLovesAnime
#ScotlandLovesAnime ranked:
- Look Back
- Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
- The Colours Within
- Sand Land
- Ghost Cat Anzu
- The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
- Kuramerukagari
- Kurayukaba
- Trapezium
- A Few Moments of Cheers
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The Q&A was pre-recorded because POPREQ is camera shy (same), and all his answers were subtitled but the projectionist left the whole Q&A cropped down to the film’s aspect ratio so we……..couldn’t read the subtitles. Everyone was losing their minds and it was too late to fix this
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A Few Moments of Cheers meticulously explores the burden of taking commissions from what could only be a gifted young animator’s viewpoint, although as unique as POPREQ’s approach to 3DCG mocap is, it doesn’t mesh with even a short feature length, and services a generic romance.
THE SUBTITLES ARE CROPPED OUT FOR THIS A FEW MOMENTS OF CHEERS Q&A‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ @lovesanimation.bsky.social #SLA2024 #ScotlandLovesAnime
Absolute tragedy with the Moments of Cheers prerecorded Q&A where the subtitles for the director are placed so low you literally cannot see even a bit of them #ScotlandLovesAnime
On the one hand, if Picturehouse promoted this London edition of #ScotlandLovesAnime better, these screenings would certainly draw more people in.
On the other hand, good lord, some of these audience members are TERRIBLE
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Trapezium - Don’t be famous. Follows a snake who takes advantage of others to achieve her dream, is a little nicer towards her than it should be. A lesson on empathy that holds little value other than morality, although it isn’t not entertaining for how demented it is deep down.
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Imagining how spirits would actually integrate into society, Ghost Cat Anzu hardly rejuvenates the “girl meets ghost” genre and struggles to coalesce as a whole, yet the absurd effect it emits in combining realities is something to behold. Deadpan and breezy before they see hell.
Just watched Look Back (2024) at Scotland Loves Anime, London
I felt personally attacked like I did with the one-shot but it was kino 🥲
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Don’t know if the Sand Land movie will ever release here given that the extended ONA is already streaming, so I saw it on the big screen out of respect for Akira. Toriyama’s Tank Girl. Fun! Curious to see the added lore in the show but a 100-minute runtime is all you really need!
Shinnosuke Yakuwa
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Much like Totoro, Totto-chan gets that plot is not integral when you are observing children’s behaviour. Even when it feels fairly overdone, animation like this could not be more perfect for bringing this ADHD queen to the screen; it looks wonderful, and it will surely wreck you.
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While The Birth of Kitaro will resonate better with fans of GeGeGe, this dark diversion is not only self-contained but surprisingly visceral and gruesome. If Mizuki could see how this represents his scars from the war and his anger towards the Japanese elite, he would be proud.
It's hard to like the main character Yu Azuma in "Trapezium" because she schemes to use other people to achieve fame. Even the trailer begins with an apology for her actions. #scotlandlovesanime www.geeknative.com/1...
Look Back is a great anime. These two girls are worlds apart and yet connected through manga. #scotlandlovesanime www.geeknative.com/1...
Ghost Cat Anzu was, I think, the second best feature-length anime at #ScotlandLovesAnime during the Edinburgh week where it got its UK premiere. www.geeknative.com/1...
The Totto-chan anime had its UK premiere in Glasgow and then aired again in Edinburgh for Scotland Loves Anime. #scotlandlovesanime www.geeknative.com/1...
Kuramergukagari had its UK premiere on Sunday at #ScotlandLovesAnime in Edinburgh. It was a gamble by the organisers. www.geeknative.com/1...