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Jin-Woo is About to Claim Victims

Solo Leveling Ep 6 Review Have you ever seen the “You’re a victim” meme? It comes from a SupaHotFire video on YouTube from six years ago, and is best…

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Mar 4, 2024 • Subscribe

Solo Leveling

To Your Eternity – 15 – A Victor Without Victims

Having Parona’s form brings Fushi nothing but grief, for the fact he has her form almost certainly means she died, like March, far to young. His Creator tells…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Jul 27, 2021 • Subscribe

To Your Eternity

Review: The Last Frenzy (2024)

The Last Frenzy 末路狂花钱 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 105 mins. Director: Wu Rina 乌日娜. Rating: 5/10. Black comedy about a penny-pincher who goes on a spending spree before…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

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Review: The Killing Performance (2024)

The Killing Performance 戏杀 China, 2024, colour/b&w, 2.35:1, 129 mins. Director: Niu Zhaoyang 牛朝阳. Rating: 6/10. Traditional period whodunit, with suspects seated round a table, looks good but…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

15 days ago • Subscribe

Tian Yu

Snowdrop (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A complex character portrait that touchingly illustrates how easy it is to misrecognize the logic of the subject-supposed-to-be-in-need.

psycho-cinematography

Mar 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Suton (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

Rikako Watanabe’s narrative succeeds to echo the unvocalized ‘pandemic’ truth of many.

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Mar 2, 2024 • Subscribe

Amalock (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A narrative that fluidly combines comedy and tragedy to deliver an experience of smiles and tears.

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Mar 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan to Schools: Don’t Dock Attendance for Groping Victims

Japan's government took steps this week to make it easier for school-age young women to report groping assaults.

Unseen Japan

Apr 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Kyoto Animation Christmas concert donates proceeds to arson victims

A celebration of the wonderful works of Kyoto Animation came in the form of a Sound! Euphonium Christmas concert held this week. All proceeds from the concert were…

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Dec 17, 2019 • Subscribe

Sumiko 22 (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A subtle but playful narrative about a subject who slowly tries to crawl out the hole of emptiness and diminished self-worth.

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Mar 14, 2024 • Subscribe

Sumiko

Blue Imagine (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A powerful reminder of the sexual transgressions that structurally plague the Japanese film industry

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Apr 1, 2024 • Subscribe

Wash Away (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A pleasant narrative that offers a fresh but familiar exploration of the subject’s fundamental desire for recognition/love and the problematic yet medicative function of consumption.

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Mar 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Review: YOLO (2024)

YOLO 热辣滚烫 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 128 mins. Director: Jia Ling 贾玲. Rating: 7/10. Mainland comedienne Jia Ling’s second feature as writer-director-star hits the bell again, if not…

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Review: What’s in the Zoo? (2024)

What’s in the Zoo? 动物园里有什么？ China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 94 mins. Director: An Xiaoman 安小满 [Bao Bei’er 包贝尔]. Rating: 4/10. Comedy centred on an ailing zoo in which…

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Yoko Kanno Creates Song of Comfort for Quake & Tsunami Victims

Pixiv Source The song titled Kimi de Ite, Buji de Ite was created by Kanno this week and posted on Youtube in support of those going through the…

Expo Expo – An Anime Blog

Mar 14, 2011 • Subscribe

Penalty Loop (2024) review [Nippon Connection 2024]

The way Araki resolves the narrative’s thematical questions concerning vengeance and the working-through of trauma will divide spectators

psycho-cinematography

9 days ago • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Ririka of the Star (2024) review [OAFF 2024] 

A narrative that does not merely emphasize the beauty of moving female body, but reveals that such beauty can change subjects.

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Mar 11, 2024 • Subscribe

New Joint Custody in Japan Law Worries Child, DV Victims Advocates

In a major shift, Japan plans to introduce joint custody post-divorce. Critics worry domestic violence victims and kids may be left behind.

Unseen Japan

Feb 26, 2024 • Subscribe

Review: Article 20 (2024)

Article 20 第二十条 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 139 mins. Director: Zhang Yimou 张艺谋. Rating: 6/10. Comedy-drama, set among a city’s public prosecutors, is entertaining enough due to its…

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May 12, 2024 • Subscribe

Review: Super Villain (2024)

Super Villain 大“反”派 China, 2024, colour, 2.35/1.85/1.33:1, 97 mins. Director: Bao Bei’er 包贝尔. Associate director: Zhang Zuofeng 张作峰. Rating: 4/10. Painfully unfunny comedy about an ambitious actor who…

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Review: Pegasus 2 (2024)

Pegasus 2 飞驰人生2 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 120 mins. Director: Han Han 韩寒. Rating: 6/10. More of the same and with knobs on, plus another effortless lead by…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

May 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Jinsei - Life Consulting

Review: Remember Me (2024)

Remember Me 灿烂的她 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 115 mins. Director: Xu Wei 徐伟. Rating: 5/10. Light drama between a selfless fisherwoman and her grand-daughter who went missing has…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

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Memories of this Scent (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

An endearing and fragrance rich tale of subjective change.

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Mar 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Ask For The Moon (2022) review [OAFF 2024]

A satisfying narrative that illustrates how the subject’s ego is but a response to his complexes and struggles.

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Mar 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Perfect・Nervous (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

An exquisitely crafted narrative that touchingly shows that a simple encounter, a simple exchange of signifiers, can turn a wish to die into a desire to life.

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Mar 26, 2024 • Subscribe

Secret: A Hidden Score (2024) review [Nippon connection 2024]

Spectators who like piano and pianists might find something to enjoy in this emotionally impotent narrative.

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6 days ago • Subscribe

Yin Yang Master Zero (2024) review [Nippon Connection 2024]

A fantastical visual experience like no other.

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18 days ago • Subscribe

GTO Revival (2024) [Special Review]

GTO Revival; or, A New Lesson      Even if you don’t have these, you are you. You’re the cutest. I have to start this review with a big…

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May 25, 2024 • Subscribe

Judge, Phoenix, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka

Review: Rob N Roll (2024)

Rob N Roll 临时劫案 Hong Kong/China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 96 mins. Director: Mai Qiguang 麦启光 [Albert Mak]. Rating: 7/10. Strongly cast down the line, this wacky Hong Kong…

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May 4, 2024 • Subscribe

Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma

Winter 2024 Anime In Review

Quick Overall Thoughts Over all this season was pretty alright. Some of the weight of how good it is comes from continuing series like Frieren and the Apothecary…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Mar 30, 2024 • Subscribe

Spring 2024 Mid-Season Review

This season has provided us with so many good anime that I feel compelled to drop one. If you guessed Yataragarasu, you would be incorrect. The Misfit of…

Medieval Otaku

a month ago • Subscribe

A Seasonal Review — Winter 2024

Didn’t Watch: See Seasonal Impressions 23. Meiji Gekken 1874 — D- What a disappointment. Why did I try to watch this… 22. Metallic Rouge — D What the…

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Apr 21, 2024 • Subscribe

Metallic Rouge, The Fire Hunter, The Witch and the Beast

Chocolatefest Knoxville 2024 Review: Sweet!

So 2024 is off to an unusual start with the conventions that I attended as I find myself at my first ever chocolate con. Now as someone who is…

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Jan 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Review: Three Old Boys (2024)

Three Old Boys 三叉戟 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 109 mins. Director: Gao Qunshu 高群书. Rating: 7/10. Gruff, northern-style buddy-cop movie has no shortage of colourful characters but too…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

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18×2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024) review [Nippon Connection 2024]

Fujii proves that the tropes of the romance genre can still be exploited in a refreshing and emotionally satisfying manner.

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12 days ago • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: On a Boat (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

The exploration of the frail stability of an obsessional neurotic does not miss its impact on the spectator.

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Mar 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Melody

Winter 2024 – Week 1 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time, as well as to motherfucking 2024. I’m hoping this year will be an improvement on the last, which, considering…

Wrong Every Time

Jan 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Winter 2024 – Week 8 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week in film screenings was defined by an unexpected themed project, owing to the recent dumping of basically…

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Feb 21, 2024 • Subscribe

Winter 2024 – Week 4 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’ve got a distinct pep in my step, as my D&D party convened for our first adventure since…

Wrong Every Time

Jan 24, 2024 • Subscribe

Winter 2024 – Week 13 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am floating on air, as the second session of our third formal DnD campaign ended…

Wrong Every Time

Mar 27, 2024 • Subscribe

Winter 2024 – Week 5 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I am feeling perhaps inordinately proud of myself, as I march ever closer to currency on my…

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Jan 31, 2024 • Subscribe

The Wind Rises

Spring 2024 – Week 11 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’m riding high on the back of another successful DnD session, as I lead my players through…

Wrong Every Time

13 days ago • Subscribe

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

Spring 2024 – Week 2 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. It seems like spring is actually getting off its ass and into some sort of motion at this…

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Apr 10, 2024 • Subscribe

One Piece

Winter 2024 – Week 6 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With the winter season nearing its halfway point, it seems like it’s about time to check in on the…

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Feb 7, 2024 • Subscribe

Spring 2024 – Week 12 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Though it is technically the end of the spring anime season, the summer heat is currently reducing my cat…

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6 days ago • Subscribe

One Piece

Winter 2024 – Week 9 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I am riding high on the conclusion of various personal projects, which most notably include my entire…

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Feb 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Faraway Family (2023) review [OAFF 2024]

A very touching narrative that explores the frail position of the father and how his structural failure can cause subjective struggles and inhibitions.

psycho-cinematography

Apr 4, 2024 • Subscribe

Spring 2024 – Week 10 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. This week my housemate at last finished his rampage through Critical Role’s second campaign, featuring The Mighty…

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20 days ago • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Winter 2024 – Week 3 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am ensconced securely in my bedroom-office, savoring one of the few aspects of winter I actually enjoy:…

Wrong Every Time

Jan 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Spring 2024 – Week 9 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. It would seem that summer has finally unleashed its fiery tendrils, as I am currently laboring under…

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Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Super