Andrez Bergen is senior editor of Impact magazine in the UK. He’s a long-term writer on Japanese pop culture, music, anime, movies and weird stuff who has covered the space since 2001. Andrez also runs Tokyo-based IF? Records, makes music as Little Nobody, writes a personal blog called JapaneseCultureGoNow!, and can be found on Twitter @andreziffy
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- WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CAPES OF HEROPA?
- August 24th, 2013Category: Events
- Former GaijinPot scribe Andrez Bergen, a resident in Tokyo over the past 12 years, is about to publish his third novel through Perfect Edge Books in the UK. Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? Is, as the title infers, a paired homage to 1940s detective noir ... » Continue Reading
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- Blood-C: Production I.G gets the CLAMP
- April 11th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Just got this rather brilliant news from my insider at Production I.G here in Tokyo: there's going to be another take on the Blood anime franchise. According to the teaser press-release notes I received, Blood-Cis a creative collaboration between Production I.G (the ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan Quakes
- March 14th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- OK, so I've seen my fair share of Japanese disaster flicks; in fact I'm a fair bit of a fan. I loved Godzilla movies when I was a kid - the way in which he walloped little balsa-wood versions of Tokyo and Osaka - and I still DJ out the awesome theme song to Mothra (モ ... » Continue Reading
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- Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings
- February 4th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- If the image (below) doesn't grab you straight away, take my word for it - as cheap as it sometimes is. This was was an interesting series. I always love my Production I.G stuff, and it's great to see it getting the attention it deserves outside Japan. The complet ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan’s National Diet Building
- January 27th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- No, it has nothing to do with calorie control or losing weight, not even in the current global financial straitjacket - but has everything in common with the U.S. Congress and British Parliament, both of which have been adapted, to some degree, into the system of gove ... » Continue Reading
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- Doraemon vs. Mobile Suit Gundam?
- January 21st, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- The latest Doraemon movie will hit cinema screens across Japan in early March, when I'm fairly certain it'll surge straight to the top in box office receipts in the very first weekend it plays. That process is actually like clockwork every year in this country. But ... » Continue Reading
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- Entame Look: Yakuza Hunters
- January 7th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Actually released last May but currently doing the rounds of the cinema circuit (including the recent Tokyo Film Festival and the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival before that), the Yakuza Hunters calls itself “a new action, violence, and gore-packed film s ... » Continue Reading
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- TOP 10 JAPAN!
- December 29th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Well now, ‘tis indeed that time again – the hilariously silly, completely self-indulgent Yuletide season that rounds out yet another year passed by; a few weeks in which people reflect and wax nostalgic over the past 12 months, bandy about inane Top 10 lists, thank-ta ... » Continue Reading
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- Is this the greatest thing you could ever buy someone for Christmas?
- December 10th, 2010Category: Culture
- “I'm was so impressed by Millennium Actress. The outstanding part of it was the sensation that the characters were ‘acting’ – I really felt as if I was watching a genuine actress when I watched that movie.” So enthused Ryuhei Kitamura, the director of films like Vers ... » Continue Reading
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- Anime Look Back: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- December 3rd, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Writer/director Hayao Miyazaki dabbled with plucky women in his anime previously, most notably with the character of Fujiko Mine in the Lupin III series – see The Castle of Cagilostro (1979) just for starters. He also had younger heroines like the Pippi Longstockinge ... » Continue Reading
