Tag: Winter 2020
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My anime diary: A Place Further than the Universe & Smile Down the Runway
Read More →: My anime diary: A Place Further than the Universe & Smile Down the RunwayI suppose I’m not the only one turning to the comfort of their anime backlog right now? I don’t feel like I have much patience at the moment and would much rather digest a finished story than be left hanging by one that’s still on-going. Anyway, I figured I’d watch Smile Down the Runway since…
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Winter 2020 anime season: a final say
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Read More →: Winter 2020 anime season: a final sayThe snow outside is melting, the birds are singing and the flowers are blooming. Ever so quietly, even as the world feels like it’s frozen in time, Spring has crept up on us guys, and with us now on the eve of another wave of new anime, I thought it would be fun to rundown…
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The End of Blade of the Immortal: a merciless fate, stained in blood
Read More →: The End of Blade of the Immortal: a merciless fate, stained in bloodAt times, extreme and horrifying, at others, awe-inspiring and beautiful, but does 2019’s Blade of the Immortal anime capture the strange magic of Hiroaki Samura’s chanbara epic?
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Humanity between the lines: Tsubame in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
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Read More →: Humanity between the lines: Tsubame in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!“I realised something working on it. That to me, life is about working on stuff like this. And there’s nothing I can do about that, now.” Tsubame on falling in love with animation in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! I was still at school when I realised what I wanted to do with my life,…
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The cancelled ero anime stream: Interspecies Reviewers
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Read More →: The cancelled ero anime stream: Interspecies ReviewersWhen sex and anime collides, something has to give! Interspecies Reviewers is the horny anime that broke Funimation.
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Noi Problem: The Awesomely Weird Characters of Dorohedoro
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Read More →: Noi Problem: The Awesomely Weird Characters of DorohedoroLooking like a cross between professional wrestlers and the Cenobites of Hellraiser, the characters of Dorohedoro are awesomely weird. Weird because it’s like watching Pinhead and Freddy Krueger sit down for a cup of tea in-between murdering a bunch of people and stuffing their bloody remains in a bin bag, and awesome because, well, what…
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From manga to anime: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
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Read More →: From manga to anime: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is probably the best anime of the Winter season, so let’s review what we can of its manga and learn a bit more about how a certain mangaka came to live out the dreams of his lively characters.
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Dorohedoro episode 1 anime review
Read More →: Dorohedoro episode 1 anime reviewQ Hayashida’s bewildering horror manga is finally animated! Dorohedoro is a dismal, filthy anime that’s teeming with cheerful monsters and we wouldn’t have it any other way!
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Haikyuu!!: To the Top episode 1 anime review
Read More →: Haikyuu!!: To the Top episode 1 anime reviewIt’s been four long years but finally, the majestic Haikyuu!!, one of the best sports anime of the last decade, returns for its fourth season.
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ID – Invaded episode 1 anime review
Read More →: ID – Invaded episode 1 anime reviewID – Invaded is caught between two worlds. One, an awesomely weird dreamscape modeled after Inception and Minority Report; the other, an overly-wordy police procedural.