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Fullmetal Alchemist AGAIN?!
I consider myself a pretty accepting person. Sure, lots of stuff irks me, but for the most part I try my hardest to not eviscerate an idea that I don’t like. I like to keep an open-mind, as I recognize...
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Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Even in movies I like, there are occasionally times when it feels like they hit on a fantastic idea that goes to waste. Makoto Shinkai's first feature film, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, has a...
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Fire Emblem Heroes (iOS)
It's almost unimaginable that, less than 5 years ago, Fire Emblem was, for all intents and purposes, a niche series almost on the rocks-whilst beloved in its native Japan, it struggled to make it...
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Whitewashed in the Shell: The Namewashing That Keeps on Giving!
Oh Hollywood, how you never fail to disappoint me! A while back, I wrote an article discussing the casting of Scarlett Johansson as Motoko Kusanagi in the live-action Ghost in the Shell. Recently,...
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Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: 5 Centimeters Per Second
It feels really weird to call 5 Centimeters Per Second a divisive movie. It's such a minor piece, only wishing to be about the distance between two people that threatens to ruin the life of one of...
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Conversations with My Brain About Anime: Smoking Culture
As you may well know by now, I happen to be a frequent writer for Infinite Rainy Day. The reason for this is quite obvious, I’m an over-thinker and a rambler, but I occasionally wonder if that makes my...
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"Meth Boat": Lost in Translation?
Who’s excited for Ghost in the Shell being in theatres? I’m not. Not only was this a train wreck, but it had the audacity to ruin the original premise in favour of a whitewashed, C-grade knock-off of...
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So, the Death Note Movie Finally Happened...
About a decade ago, Death Note because one of the most popular things among western teens, and it's truly something to be embarrassed about. Despite the series masterful handling of twists and thrills,...
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The Good Ones: Valkyrie Drive Mermaid
Welcome back to the Good Ones, a series that aims to list out some good characters in god awful franchises. For those new to this format, the idea is that I pick out a particular anime, manga, game, or...
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Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Children who Chase Lost Voices
Ever since I was a newspaper critic, a variety of problems with a rating system have always nagged at me despite the public's demand for it. The blatant misunderstanding over how a star rating is not a...
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Why Speed Racer is the Only Good Hollywood Anime Adaptation
You know, with so many terrible anime live action adaptations coming out that have almost no chance at being good, it's important to remember that they still have a chance. History says there's no way...
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Disaster Report: DRAMAtical Murder
Adapting visual novels to animation is not an easy task. There have been dozens of shows over the years that have tried their hands at it and the results have been decidedly mixed. How do you condense...
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After all this retrospective-ing, it is finally time to discuss Makoto Shinkai's behemoth that put him on the echelon of the people he's been compared to his entire career (Much to his horror and...
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Persona 5 and the Challenges of Translation
I'm sure by now that you've all noticed the utter madness that is Persona 5 discourse, but I'm not here to get too deep into that. No, I'd rather focus on one particular aspect as a springboard. The...
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Aftermath in the Shell: When Hollywood Meets Japan
So, how about that Ghost in the Shell movie? Y’know, the movie that came out a while back? The one with Scarlett Johansson? The one where she played a Japanese woman? The one that opened to abysmal...
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The Outdated Regional RPG Terminology
Have you ever noticed how you have to clarify what you mean when you say you like playing RPGs? Do you like Fallout or Shin Megami Tensei? Dragon Age or Final Fantasy? Mass Effect or Dragon Quest? The...
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Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Garden of Words
This retrospective ends on a somewhat anti-climactic note with The Garden of Words. When I first got the Blu-ray disc years ago, I popped it in immediately, watched it, and threw in storage where it's...
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Smut That Doesn't Suck: Milda7
So, who wants to hear about some super queer smut? I don't just mean gay, I mean gender destroying. There is literally not another artist out there I can think of like today's subject, Milda7, also...
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Disney and Studio Ghibli: Talent Recognizing Talent
May 23rd marks the 19th anniversary of Studio Ghibli's dubs under Disney. Beginning with Kiki’s Delivery Service in 1998, the partnership would include every Hayao Miyazaki movie prior, two of Isao...
View ArticleThe Work of Kunio Kato, Anime's Other Oscar Winner
It is easy, with the degree to which Hayao Miyazaki is lauded, not only in terms of anime as a form of animation, but among the pantheon of animators, from Park and Lasseter to Bird and Chomet, to...
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