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Move over, Shakespeare! Here comes Barefoot Gen!

From Anime Corporation – You want art films? Forget King Lear! The British Museum will be launching a film series on September 7, entitled “Late…

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Pizza Hut: First We Take Code Geass. Then We Take Evangeliiiiionnnn

(Sorry for the Leonard Cohen reference.) Anime News Network reports: Pizza Hut has launched a campaign tied to the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone…

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School Days 10: A Return to Form?

Well, not exactly. There was more seriousness and slightly better emotional development in this episode, but it all rests on the ridiculous turns that the…

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The Otaking Does the (Anime) Blog Diet and Wins!

Toshio Okada–one of the founders of Gainax, and the self-proclaimed “Otaking”–used to look like this: But now he looks like this!

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Claymore 23 review pt. 2- the Defining and the application of the Shonen Thesis

(Continued from pt.1) One more shonen convention for your reference: an angry protagonist becomes stronger and will overcome his opponent by the end. Goku gets…

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Claymore 23 review pt. 1- the Shonen Thesis

Where is hope? Where’s the miracle? Why are they even here? “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we…

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