Author: wintermuted

Part-time wandering artifact, part-time student, Wintermuted's travels from the wastelands of California's Coachella Valley have crystallized his love of all-things soulful & strange. A child of the VHS era, and often working for the anime man, his voyages continue onward in the name of bridging generations of Japanese popular art together. Can also be found via twitter.com/winterkaijyu , as well as wanderingkaijyu.blogspot.com !
Posted in Anime Reviews

The Convergence Miracle of Blade Runner Blackout 2022

Well over twenty four hours since it landed, and I remain in that rare place. A place where something one remembers in fragments, but is…

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Your Name(2016): A Telling Tale (Film Thoughts)

In the race for anime box office domination (a race largely reserved for studios, and the occasional anime industry wonk), the unexpected can often be…

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Kabaneri Of The Iron Fortress: Same Club, New Woofers

Everything Is A Remix, as the touted video series suggests. Not unlike how favorite music finds itself warped into a virtually endless number of permutations,…

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Evangelion at 20 – That (Brutal) Age

Being young hurts. Never let anyone tell you different. We can wax nostalgic all we want, but youth is the place where all the muscles…

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Who Killed The World? – The Bureau Of Proto Society Delivers

When anime has such a clear-eyed perspective on the zeitgest, I perk up. Imagine my bemused surprise when a medium so often concerned with appeasing…

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Sense Impressions: NGE 20th Anniversary Celebration at AX 2015

If you had asked me two weeks ago if I was headed out this year toward the Los Angeles Convention Center for the anime celebration…

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