Kuchu Bur­anko (Trapeze, lit. Sky Swing) is like a late night bevy of cock­tails: all bright col­ours and mind alter­ing effects. The first three epis­odes are an all out assault on aes­thet­ics, everything is awash with lumin­ous col­ours and tex­tured with polka dots or gar­ish swathes of clash­ing pat­terns. Some­times barely discernible […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• abstract,
• Anime,
• bizarre,
• calendar,
• colourful,
• dementia,
• disorder,
• kuchu buranko,
• mindfuck,
• ocd,
• psychological,
• psychology,
• review,
• surreal,
• tear,
• technicolour,
• trapeze

Given such an aus­pi­cious and con­fus­ing open­ing three epis­odes, it would have been easy for ef to fall into obscur­ity and abstrac­tion with deep sym­bol­ism and obscured plot; thank­fully this is not the case and the series man­ages to make the absurdly styl­istic sym­bol­ism part of itself while still a some­times unique, […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• abstract,
• art,
• beach,
• ef,
• ef a tale of memories,
• memories,
• review,
• romance,
• shaft,
• shinbo,
• skies,
• snow,
• stylish,
• sunset,
• symbolism

It’s not a stretch to say that Paprika is the movie that Satoshi Kon has been build­ing up to. Simply attach­ing his name to a film indic­ates its con­tent: a trip into the human psyche where per­spect­ives blend and ques­tions about the nature of “self” are posed. This is no dif­fer­ent and […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• abstract,
• Anime,
• circus,
• dreams,
• fantasy,
• interpretive,
• milennium actress,
• paprika,
• parade,
• perfect blue,
• psychology,
• review,
• satoshi kon,
• symbolism,
• technicolour,
• visual,
• wonder