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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Episode 5 – The Familiar and the Unfamiliar

This astonishing episode, the most genuine and heartbreaking display of emotion I’ve seen in TV anime in a long time, cements Tokyo Magnitude 8.0‘s place…

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Hirano Aya – BEAM!

From ANN & Sankaku Complex – Aya Hirano Ideal vs Actuality …with the above comparison shot demonstrating that the reality differs… Aya Hirano, Satomi Satou…

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I want to teach Engrish not English

Just in case you haven’t seen this before – Gaki no Tsukai High School, 2005. Ray’s Take: I taught English in Japan and nobody was…

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Anime Diet Radio Episode 40 – Satisfaction Guaranteed [Possibly NSFW]

[display_podcast] That’s right. Anime Diet Radio celebrates its 40th episode with…something to help along that midlife, or quarterlife, crisis–at least for some otaku. Let’s just…

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Commite Seppuku before it sinks!

From Sankaku Complex – Japan is Sinking: “Death Before Foreignness!” …“Japan will sink in one month! But the kind countries have agreed to take in…

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Endless Power Level 8000

From Sakaku Complex – “If We Do A Haruhi Movie, It’ll Be Endless Eight Again” …………………………………Ishihara: “Endless Eight… 🙂 Can’t we do that again, adding…

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