Tag: magical girl
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Puella Magi Madoka Abstract Subversion Nyanyan Death
Read More →: Puella Magi Madoka Abstract Subversion Nyanyan DeathJust be brave, everyone, but especially you, Japan.
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Seeing the forest through the trees with Sailor Moon
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Read More →: Seeing the forest through the trees with Sailor MoonIf you haven’t done yourself the favour of reading the original Sailor Moon manga, I suggest you drop whatever stigmas or preconceptions you have of the series and find yourself a copy. Naturally, it suffers from the cliches it helped to establish: baddies-of-the-moment, elaborately named attacks, and a penchant for all the bad parts of…
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Princess Tutu will dance her way into your heart
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/ ReviewsRead More →: Princess Tutu will dance her way into your heartWhen I realized I had the opportunity to spend this most precious of weeks working my way through a long-ignored anime series, I could have wasted ages agonizing over the decision, yet it was quite the opposite – two elegant words immediately jumped (or should I say, danced?) to mind: Princess Tutu.
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Red Garden – Only in death do they find true happiness
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/ ReviewsRead More →: Red Garden – Only in death do they find true happinessI’ve been an advocate of Red Garden since the first episode, but until this past weekend I hadn’t seen beyond episode three. Red Garden isn’t easy to watch – if the characters aren’t paralysing my brain with screaming, tearful grief, they start singing instead. I like that the show is trying something different with the…
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Red Garden – 3 – Theatrical heart break
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/ ReviewsRead More →: Red Garden – 3 – Theatrical heart breakEpisode 3 of Red Garden is the best yet; the viewer leaves this instalment drenched in suspense, mystery and blood, and all the while we’re slowly beginning to understand what’s happened to the girls – or rather, how they died! There are still big question marks hanging over why they were all together on *that*…
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Red Garden – 2 – Expensive shirts and werewolves
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/ ReviewsRead More →: Red Garden – 2 – Expensive shirts and werewolvesI do love mysterious horror stories, especially when the viewer is as much at a loss as to what is going on as the characters themselves. The supernatural Red Garden is growing with this creeping intrigue, it’s bizarre and confusing and a lot of my interest is now centred on eventually finding answers. In some…
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Red Garden – 1 – Colourful teenage exuberance
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/ ReviewsRead More →: Red Garden – 1 – Colourful teenage exuberanceMany people couldn’t be bothered with Vision of Escaflowne because the character designs sported big noses. The almost-ignored Fantastic Children suffered from this same shallow discrimination. I dare say both of these are modern classics, and now Red Garden will face the exact same battle against a community that largely considers the likes of Kanon…
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Mahou Shoujotai – Magical girl anime done good
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/ ReviewsRead More →: Mahou Shoujotai – Magical girl anime done goodHaving stumbled across the passionate rants and pretty pictures over at the Star Crossed anime blog, I decided I’d take a chance on a magical girl anime called Mahou Shoujotai (also known as Tweeny Witches or Magic-Girl Squad – Alice). Up until checking out Mahou Shoujotai, my only other experiences of the traditional magical girl…