The Rabbitte Perspective

Rising From The Ashes? For those who are commonly acquainted with Studio Ghibli's plethora of animated features and the said studios recent circumstances involving film-making and co-operating with other niche animated projects, it'll come as no surprise how discouraging it is to not see the famed Ghibli logo of Totoro popping onto the silver-screen in recent memory. While cinematic efforts in the forms of Makoto Shinkai's Your Name and Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast  have supplemented anime-lovers' interest in the said medium and have subsequently exhibited to general audiences the diversity of Japanese animation other than the acclaimed Ghibli, the initial departure of Hayao Miyazaki in 2014, following his release of The Wind Rises , and the resulting re-structuring of Ghibli in producing films has indeed left a void that no one, as of yet, has seized upon. However, it is with a conclusion that also brings a new beginning and this comes in the form

The Moment I Became Infatuated?! Ever since I can remember, animation has always been something that has infatuated me. Whether it was the many numerous times I would wake-up on a Saturday morning as a little mini-Alex to watch either Pokémon  or Batman: The Animated Series  with my older brothers or this time now, where I actively pursuit animated films or T.V. series (specifically anime-related) that can fill my own pleasurable void, animation - specifically drawn/cel animation - has always managed to beguile my own interests and, in return, has made me curious of the medium to watch more and even study its intricacies at an academic level. This goes specifically for Japanese animation; a genre in itself that although occupies an inherently alluring visualisation that seemingly balances fantasy with reality, it encourages stories and concepts that are mature yet engaging to perceive. Unlike the practise of Western animation, Japanese anime caters to all audiences by enveloping

Cinematic Supremacy It's been six years since we saw a group of individually likeable superhero's first congregate with each other in the form of Avengers Assemble  that was as good as the audience's hype for it suggested. From that time, Marvel have continued to assert their cinematic dominance by producing an array of super-heroic features that have smashed box-office records, turned unknown or unlikable characters into fan-favourites, and have been bold enough to articulate stories that are distinctively appealing in their own right. Indeed, there's no going around the notion that the cinematic universe which Marvel have constructed for the last ten years, starting with Jon Favreau's Iron Man in 2008, is a franchise behemoth that many like-minded and ambitious series of films would like to emulate. How fitting of them then, to consolidate their blockbuster supremacy by introducing their grand end-game, Avengers: Infinity War ; a tremendously ambitious cine