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Blu-ray Review: Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon)

Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon) is a pretty, mediocre anime film, whose lovely background art and battle animation cannot quite make up for a lack of character depth and emotional connection.

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Chihayafuru: The Rules of the Shoujo Game

I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?

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Live-Action Ranma 1/2: Damage Assessment With Joy To Spare

  So it has come to pass. As the great Stephen Tobolowsky once said that was something to the effect of, “When you take a…

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Sister Moe ≥ Imouto Moe

In honor of Fête des lumières.

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Melancholy of Momoneko-sama

Tamayura Hitotose, episode 9 was funny.

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L’Arc en Ciel 20th L’Anniversary LIVE at NYC

There’s only certain groups that have made it big and stay together long enough to have a 20th Anniversary, and you can count L’Arc en…

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