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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi, Episode 6: T (Tetsuman) Pose
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
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi, Episode 5: They Tell This Girl They're Gonna Play Mahjong, But Then They Don't
Nothing is impossible in mahjong, though. Play long enough and you will see some things.
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon no Michi, Episode 4: I Never Typed a Title Into This One But It's An Ad For Mahjong Soul
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon no Michi, Episode 3 - You Probably Shouldn't Just Eat Curry On The Table Like That
Though there isn’t a ton of mahjong in this episode, I managed to squeeze quite a bit out. This is actually the episode where I decided to write this series, as the subs were finding such new and exciting ways to blow it on terminology.