Tag Archives: anime

Theme Tune Tuesdays

Theme Tunes Tuesdays: Vol. 5

Cowboy Bebop is hands down one the coolest shows ever conceived, and a large part of that is down to a killer sound track from  Yoko Kanno. When I first heard the leading track “Tank” I knew I was going to like this show, and like it I bloody did.

Theme Tune Tuesdays

Theme Tune Tuesdays: Vol. 2

This week, Theme Tune Tuesdays brings you a song that, (like its titular heroes) is “stronger than old cheese, and tougher than dirt”. That’s right I am of course talking about Samurai Pizza Cats.

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Feature

Turning Japanese

Recently I’ve been watching a show that centres on a pair of loveable rogues fighting oppression. Like so many other TV partnerships, both had their role: one was the brain, the thinker. While the other was the brawn and the mouthpiece. They were yin and yang, and one could not function without the other. So imagine my shock when just eight episodes in one them straight up dies.

Now this wasn’t some award-winning drama from BBC. It was a cartoon. More specifically a cartoon from Japan, more commonly known as an anime.

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