Anime
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Mayhem – Satoru Gojo as the Trickster Archetype in Anime
By Philip Jean-Pierre I can already hear you nerds coming after me about, “What about Tanuki-the raccoon dog?”, What about Kitsune, the fox? What about them? The world is a big place with room for all of them. Around the world, there are hundreds of trickster figures. There is Hermes in Greece, the Coyote in…
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Series Appetizer: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a joy to watch, bringing new life to the SP-verse and paying glorious homage to the original movie, while making something entirely its own.
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Blue Eye Samurai
The pages of history are filled with women who posed as men to fight wars, either political or artistic. Not trans men (who also populated history), but women who donned the armor of masculinity that allowed them to move freely. Blue Eye Samurai is a fictionalized version of stories like these.
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Lupin Part 3 (Let’s call it The Third)
Season 2 of Lupin starts with Assane in hiding, separated from his family, and yet still unreformed. Things kick off with a heist and never stop rolling.
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The Straw Hat Grand Fleet Returns: One Piece Gets Renewed For season 2
You already know the One Piece live-action news is good.
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One Piece (2023 – Season 1)
We’re in foreign waters now, folks. You’re probably like, this is a bad pun, or what do you mean by that? Well, we’re in a good live-action Anime adaptation world. With getting that out of the way, adapting anime is a hard thing to do. First of all, most of the time, the dialogue is…
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Is it One Piece? Questioning the Live Action Series
When a live-action version of an anime, manga, or comic book happens, the fans ask one question first. Did they get it right? So, Is this One Piece?
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Suzume – Julian’s Review
Suzume is a wonderfully told story about a teenage girl named Suzume. After seeing a beautiful young man, she ends up on an adventure to save Japan by quelling restless spirits that cause disasters around the country.
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Suzume – Sherin’s Take
From Makoto Shinkai (writer/director of Your Name), the new anime feature Suzume questions the weight of memory, how it reshapes us, and the ways it stagnates.
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Watch This Week – 11/1/21
This week: The Harder They Fall, Chicago Med, Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi: Holiday Edition, Narcos: Mexico, Big Mouth, Animaniacs, Finch
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Watch This Week – 10/18/21
This week: 9-1-1, Queens, Chicago Med, Snoop & Martha’s Very Tasty Halloween, The Next Thing You Eat, Dune, Locke & Key, Adventure Beast
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Watch This Week – 8/23/21
This week: The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Motherland: Fort Salem, Count Me In, Clickbait, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed, Motel Makeover, grown-ish, Family Reunion, He’s All That, PEN15 Animated Special, Vacation Friends
