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Hypnosis Mic: The Movie is a multi-path anime rap battle concert movie driven by audience voting, so how could I miss that?
YOU NEED HEART TO PLAY THIS GAME 気持ちがレイムじゃモノホンプレイヤーになれねえ
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The Annotated Cipher: The Video (2/2)
I’m not sure I can really call it a criticism that these guys don’t act like any guys I’ve ever met, gay or straight. But I also suspect that this is one of those things you can file under “feature, not flaw” for the actual target reader.
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The annotated Cipher: The Video (1/2)
It’s pure mood and style, with no interest whatsoever in explaining to the viewer what the hell is supposed to be happening as the characters dance and mope and play football.
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Spoiler Space: Turkey’s opening-credits shock had me speculating all season. Now that it’s over, I have an answer
(One of the things I really like about Turkey! is the way it doesn’t shy away from the “nasty, brutish and short” of ancient life, even though it’s at heart a “cute girls have fun” anime.)
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Bonus: Tournament Report - Riichi Nomi Open 2025 but mostly it's about how 1500 point honba are a stupid rule
"I'm not worried about winning stuff from two opposing business rivals. That just means I'm decorated."
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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."