Feature Ryan Lambie 12 Jul 2013 - 05:37
There's an international theme to this week's Crowdfunding Friday, with a captivating anime project from Japan among the selection...
It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when anime and manga were extremely difficult to get hold of. Japanese culture was a distant, exotic and exciting thing in the 80s and 90s, occasionally glimpsed on children's television or in magazines, but largely on the cultural periphery , at least in the UK. The arrival of Akira and Manga Entertainment began the trickle of Japanese comics and animation into the UK, but the internet has since unleashed a flood.
All of this is a means of introducing the first offering in this week's crowdfunding selection - 20-minute film from the Japanese animation house, Studio Trigger. It's proof that, not only does the internet give us ready aspect to all sorts of wonderful things from all over the world,...
There's an international theme to this week's Crowdfunding Friday, with a captivating anime project from Japan among the selection...
It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when anime and manga were extremely difficult to get hold of. Japanese culture was a distant, exotic and exciting thing in the 80s and 90s, occasionally glimpsed on children's television or in magazines, but largely on the cultural periphery , at least in the UK. The arrival of Akira and Manga Entertainment began the trickle of Japanese comics and animation into the UK, but the internet has since unleashed a flood.
All of this is a means of introducing the first offering in this week's crowdfunding selection - 20-minute film from the Japanese animation house, Studio Trigger. It's proof that, not only does the internet give us ready aspect to all sorts of wonderful things from all over the world,...
- 7/11/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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