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 !
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Otaku No Video Kickstarter Success (Why It Still Matters)

Upon catching up with the news via Twitter, among all the other amazing things happening yesterday, news came that Animeigo’s ambitious Blu-ray Kickstarter had ended…

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Through Older Lenses: A Candy Colored Pill They Call Shirobako

  Someone recently asked me about current anime television, and what I have been spending limited time watching lately. And they were surprised to hear…

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Ghost In The Shell At 20 (Now on Hulu Plus)

As raved about over Twitter just a short while ago, subscribers to Hulu Plus can now enjoy the recently released HD edition of Mamoru Oshii’s…

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Through Older Lenses: Letting Go Of Live Action

  Anime fans, asian cinema lovers, genre hounds. It’s time to grow a little. That’s right, I said it. It is no longer the “salad…

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Through Older Lenses: The Malleability Of Dieting

Been quite busy these last few months, and while in the office, I tend to listen to co-workers dish out what they enjoy via their…

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New Chassis/ Classic Engine – Ghost In The Shell: ARISE

Newport City: A.D. 2027 Whilst exhuming a murdered body under investigation, Chief Daisuke Aramaki of Public Security Section 9, meets a young and already dangerous…

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