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Disaster Report: Hellsing
There are few things more thrilling for a manga fan than to see one of their favorite series make the jump to television. It’s not just the joy that comes from seeing the story and characters you...
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Disney and Studio Ghibli: Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You...
Earlier this year, I wrote a dissertation discussing Disney’s 20 year relationship with Studio Ghibli. Later that year, I followed that with an analysis of the dubbing Disney did for their films. Now,...
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"C'mon Everyone, Let's Mosey" - Introducing The Final Fantasy Journey
We shall journey on the road that continues... to the Final Fantasy. Cid of the Lufaine, Final Fantasy Dissidia.The first moment Final Fantasy takes your breath away is some twenty minutes in. Your...
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Vic Mignog-UGH!
A while back, I wrote an article about Vic Mignogna and the dub of The Vision of Escaflowne. Despite not defending his awful behaviour, I made the decision to support his casting as Folken Fanel. I...
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A Rainy Day Chat 001: The Silver Case
Introducing A Rainy Day Chat, a new podcast here where our staff share some of our favorite pieces of Japanese and Japanese inspired media with each other and various friends and talk about what makes...
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The Legacy of Ryutaro Nakamura's Kino's Journey
Watching the new Kino's Journey TV remake like most people who loved the original adaptation, I was reminded what an incredible piece 2003's version is during the, "I sometimes wonder if I'm really...
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Batman Ninja and the East-West Discourse
There’s a Batman anime film slated for next year: Whoah! (Courtesy of IGN.)I’m sure that most of you are confused right now. Don’t worry, so am I. Simply saying “anime ninja Batman” is enough to wonder...
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Alita, Can You Hear Me?
On December 9th, 2017, the internet was graced with a trailer for Alita: Battle Angel. Despite this having been hyped for years, the trailer was met with mixed responses. Some fans were ecstatic that...
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A Rainy Day Chat 002: Okami
Whitly hosts this episode as he invites Jonathan to discuss Clover Studio's masterpiece Okami. Click the title card to listen to the episode!
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The VA Effect
With 2018 right around the corner, I figured I’d discuss something that’s been bugging me about certain subsets of the Otaku community as of late: In June of this past year, FUNimation voice actor...
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Kino's Journey -the Beautiful World- (2017)
Maybe the REAL Kino's Journey is the friends we made along the way! This seems like a cheap joke to start off a review... and it is. However, it's damn near the truth of how the new Kino's Journey...
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Which is Witch? Mary and the Witch's Wish-List
Mary and the Witch’s Flower is a film I keep forgetting about. It’s not that it doesn’t look appealing, because it does. It’s not that it doesn’t look like it’ll be good, because it does. It’s not even...
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch)
It's once again time for me to file a review on a Xenoblade game way later than everyone else because I want to actually experience the game as it should be and then discuss it rather than trying to...
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The Anime Baby: The Academy and Us
The Academy is a joke, isn't it? I ask that regretfully. On one hand, they've been finding new ways to piss us off every January for 90 years. Whether it's nominating obviously bad films in their Best...
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Best Anime Feature?
*Inhales deeply* Let's do this! Hmm… (Courtesy of YouTube user Mother's Basement.)I wasn't originally gonna write another Oscars piece. I already wrote one, and-quite frankly-I thought I summed up...
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Oy Vey Anime!
Oy vey zmir! It's no secret that I'm a proud, yarmulke-wearing Jew. I've made it obvious on multiple occasions, like when I discussed Yuri Bear Storm a while back. I pray at least twice a day, keep...
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NieA_7 (2001)
Of all the things resurrected for a physical release from the early 2000s, one of the last titles I expected was NieA_7. With the corpse of Pioneer/Geneon containing so many licenses that could be...
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Oy Vey Anime! A Follow-Up
In my last article, I used my Judaism as a springboard for discussing the controversial Tweets of anime director Kazuyoshi Yaginuma. I mentioned that while I'm disappointed in his remarks about The...
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Secret of Mana (2018)
The old man is looking at old man things again. Surprise surprise. There's plenty of "it doesn't need to be said" about Secret of Mana. It's one of the classics of the SNES and makes plenty of best...
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Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (Switch)
If you'd have told me 10 years ago that Mario, Nintendo's mascot, and The Rabbids, those obnoxious critters that double as Ubisoft's answer to Universal's Minions, would star in an RPG for a Nintendo...
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An Ode to Smashing
The year was 1999. The N64 was in its third year of circulation. Despite underperforming next to the PS1, the N64 already had an impressive line-up of first and second-party games. However, nothing...
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The Garden of Sinners (Films)
Content Warning: Discussions of the third movie will involve gang rape and the fifth movie involves scenes of domestic abuse.The Garden of Sinners is free of its bonds! Well, sort of. To say this...
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Why More Distributors Should Give Anime Films Theater Runs
In 2016, I reviewedThe Boy and the Beast. Despite really enjoying the movie, I made note that the film had a shafted theatrical release before coming to video in Canada. I still ended up owning the...
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Taikira
Every-now-and-then, I have the misfortune of striking gold by complete accident. Take last week, when, while writing up this list, I discovered the following article from November of last year....
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Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Boy, Level 5 doesn't make it easy to review a sequel. Nor should they. Joe Hisaishi score and imagery blessed by Studio Ghibli aside, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom feels like it's trying to shed its...
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