Barry Divola
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My obsession with Japan’s famed robot led me to this great city (opens the original)
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My fascination with Japan started as a child, and it came exclusively through television. The Samurai and Phantom Agents featured hilariously terrible dubbed English, but introduced Australian kids to ninja and samurai. Then there were cartoons such as Astro Boy, Prince Planet and Marine Boy, with big-eyed characters, simple animation and goodies-versus-baddies plots. One cartoon has stuck with me to this day. Gigantor was about a giant blue robot who fought evil, but he was controlled by a 12-y
My obsession with Japan’s famed robot led me to this great city (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My fascination with Japan started as a child, and it came exclusively through television. The Samurai and Phantom Agents featured hilariously terrible dubbed English, but introduced Australian kids to ninja and samurai. Then there were cartoons such as Astro Boy, Prince Planet and Marine Boy, with big-eyed characters, simple animation and goodies-versus-baddies plots. One cartoon has stuck with me to this day. Gigantor was about a giant blue robot who fought evil, but he was controlled by a 12-y
My obsession with Japan’s famed robot led me to this great city (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My fascination with Japan started as a child, and it came exclusively through television. The Samurai and Phantom Agents featured hilariously terrible dubbed English, but introduced Australian kids to ninja and samurai. Then there were cartoons such as Astro Boy, Prince Planet and Marine Boy, with big-eyed characters, simple animation and goodies-versus-baddies plots. One cartoon has stuck with me to this day. Gigantor was about a giant blue robot who fought evil, but he was controlled by a 12-y
My obsession with Japan’s famed robot led me to this great city (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My fascination with Japan started as a child, and it came exclusively through television. The Samurai and Phantom Agents featured hilariously terrible dubbed English, but introduced Australian kids to ninja and samurai. Then there were cartoons such as Astro Boy, Prince Planet and Marine Boy, with big-eyed characters, simple animation and goodies-versus-baddies plots. One cartoon has stuck with me to this day. Gigantor was about a giant blue robot who fought evil, but he was controlled by a 12-y
The true story behind the record label that defined pop in the ’80s and ’90s (opens the original)
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Siân Pattenden still remembers her life flashing before her eyes. This was back in the early ’90s, when she was a young writer for English pop magazine Smash Hits. She was doing a story on boy band East 17. The bad boy of the group, Brian Harvey, realised he had to move his car, as it was illegally parked, and encouraged Pattenden to accompany him. He proceeded to put the pedal to the metal and the car careened down the street at dangerously high speed, Pattenden hanging on for dear life, vision
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