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Isekai isn’t always bad; two atypical and fun isekai series from last anime season
"The thing I hate most passionately about isekai slop is the false modesty of a fake underdog."
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Bonus: Momentary Lily Spoiler Space - what if a post-apocalypse didn't make any sense
As the guy from Hand Shakers says, this stuff just won't mesh.
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Unfortunately, GoHands' Momentary Lily is the boring kind of bad anime
...like a conversation between robots programmed only to spout catchphrases like Pokemon babbling out their own names at one another.
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What do we know about the connections between GQux and Gundam? A Missing Persons Investigation
(There’s no video release for Beginning, so I am running a bit off memory of a movie I saw last week. I will get things wrong; forgive me.) GQux Beginning wants to fit its whole alternate One Year War onto film, but as it only has so much time
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I can't explain GQux without spoilers, so you might just want to go see it yourself, but just in case I wrote 2000 words on it
This is not Hideaki Anno's Gundam, everyone please stop calling it that
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The Colors Within/Kimi no Iro is concentrated sweetness and transcendent performance
Her direction is natural, intimate, soft, gentle and sweet like a hand cradling your chin. She makes you feel like you are physically sharing the same space as the characters. It’s no surprise that her works have forged some pretty intense connections with their viewers.
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20 years ago, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence dared to be the philosophical mood piece of a blockbuster cyberpunk action series
"(Oshii's) thinking about everything we make... human attempts to build a purer, better form of ourselves without all the original sin. Something innocent."
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How the alternate universe Genshiken spinoff Spotted Flower caused fans to disown a beloved millennial otaku icon
(Just as a heads-up: I’ve kept things relatively non-graphic, but very late in this piece I describe a sexual assault in the manga in question. I'll also be talking about a comic that only exists in English in fan scans, and which for reasons we will get
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If you loved Brave Bang Bang Bravern, I’m going to recommend some robot anime
I haven’t had the chance to talk about the current anime season much, but suffice to say my favorite was easily Brave Bang Bang Bravern. Director Masami Obari and writer Keigo Koyanagi delivered a strange, self-parodic, unpredictable, yet moving narrative packed with all the explosive heroics and joyous catharsis
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi 10 - Christmas Mahjong American Style
The Christmas party at the parlor is one of the mahjong-lightest episodes yet, second only to maybe the barbecue.
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi Episode 9 - Let's Go To The Festival! But First Let's Play Mahjong All Episode
An episode that looks like it’s going to be about an unusual local festival is actually a full episode of the girls trying to out-cheat each other at the mahjong table. I find this series is frequently caught between trying to be about the girls playing mahjong and the
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi Episode 7 - Pai Means Many Things
I wanted to make absolutely sure this went up today, as today is Pi Day (3/14). It's possible that all the delays in my life have led up to this moment.