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Phoenix – Quantity 1 | Incorrect Each Time

I’ll admit I do know embarrassingly little about Tezuka’s life and work, past the apparent impression he had as each one of many pioneers of manga and the originator of TV animation. There was short-form anime earlier than Tezuka, however …

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Twintig jaar later | Elke keer fout

Twenty Years Later is het verhaal van João Pedro Teixeira, een leider van de landelijke boerenliga’s in Brazilië die start jaren zestig enige bekendheid verwierf. Teixeira streed voor rechtvaardiger voorwaarden voor de arbeiders van zijn stad Sabe, die op gruwelijke …

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Welterusten, Punpun – Deel 3

Het derde deel van Goodnight Punpun begint en eindigt met berusting. De voorkant bepaalt grotendeels het drama dat gaat komen: Punpun verdwaald in een drukke menigte, slechts één (weliswaar vogelachtig) gezicht tussen de vele. Op de basisschool verwonderde Punpun zich …

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Neon Genesis Evangelion – Episode 17

Reasonably than referring to some psychoanalytical idea or opaque descriptor of the drama to return, Neon Genesis Evangelion’s seventeenth episode is known as, fairly merely, “Fourth Youngster.” It’s a identify that refers to NERV’s conceptually imprecise but tonally particular designations …

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A pale mirror: Maborosi | Incorrect each time

Hirokazu Kore-eda makes somber, majestic movies about quietly sad individuals, individuals whose lives have not delivered every thing they hoped for, however who nonetheless maintain a candle to tomorrow. You possibly can draw a direct line from his work to …

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Chainsaw Man and the Nation Mouse

Late in Chainsaw Man’s fifth quantity, Denji and Aki are every introduced with a quick parable, the story of the nation and the town mouse. “The nation mouse will get to stay in security,” they’re advised, “however doesn’t get to …

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The Aesthetics of Grief in Goodbye, Eri

Tatsuki Fujimoto is a connoisseur of what you may name “dirtbag compassion.” Although his works discover advanced and tough matters with elevated nuance, his perspective at all times hangs close to the muck – dicks getting kicked, rest room jokes, …

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Suspension: Kubitsuri Excessive Faculty | Incorrect Each Time

And so we return to the archives of the nonsense-using quasi-detective Iitan, who begrudgingly solves the murders that at all times appear to darken his doorstep. I’ve usually had a considerably tempestuous relationship with this sequence, as whereas I like …