Hit Japan anime genre offers escape, second chances

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Arima said a core audience for Kadokawa’s novels is “salarymen” – Japanese office workers – in their 30s and 40s. They may be dreaming of “just switching to jobs that recognise them better”, in defiance of Japan’s ingrained lifetime employment system, he said. “Since this kind of way of livingContinue Reading

Anime luminary Maruyama warns Japan’s top spot at risk

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The upcoming series for Netflix, of which he is executive producer, is steeped in themes such as war and discrimination that some feel are particularly relevant today. Maruyama is unapologetic about his view that he is “the most authentic inheritor of Tezuka’s DNA”, from his blithe ignorance of budgets toContinue Reading