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(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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This is not Hideaki Anno's Gundam, everyone please stop calling it that
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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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"(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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(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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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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The Christmas party at the parlor is one of the mahjong-lightest episodes yet, second only to maybe the barbecue.
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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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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.
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A lot of anime that take place in remote, picturesque Japanese towns are specifically trying to push tourism to their real-life settings, betting on the “otaku pilgrimage” effect proven most famously by Girls & Panzer. Pon no Michi— which, if you didn’t notice, is actually punning on the name
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Nothing is impossible in mahjong, though. Play long enough and you will see some things.
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