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8 Anime About The Dark Side of Show Business

There's no business like show business—a glittering world of fame, fortune, and ambition where dreams are made and broken in the blink of an eye. Yet, behind

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Your Favorite Shoujo Came From This Magazine

This May is the 50th anniversary of one of the most popular shoujo manga magazines in Japan, Hana to Yume. To celebrate I took a deep dive into…

Colleen's Manga Recs

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The Apothecary Diaries Opening Reminds Me of Something

I watched the first episode of The Apothecary Diaries, and the opening is very reminiscent of a different and much older anime: The 1984 Glass Mask TV series.…

OGIUE MANIAX

Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu

Here's another project that has been stuck in limbo for a very long time: the 2001 movie Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu ( Life on Earth...

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#125 - Glass Mask (1985) feat. Basil from the OSMCast!

Entering stage left is the Third Impact Anime podcast! Tobias and Bill are joined by Mr. Pain Train himself–Basil of the OSMcast! The boys catch up with what…

Third Impact Anime Podcast

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Third Impact Anime Episode # 125 – Glass Mask (1984)

Entering stage left is the Third Impact Anime podcast! Tobias and Bill are joined by Mr. Pain Train himself–Basil of the OSMcast! The boys catch up with what…

Third Impact Anime

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Anime Series Like Dance Dance Danseur

After watching a gripping performance by a male ballet dancer as a kid, Junpei Murao fell in love with dance. However, after being pressured into finding

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Anime Series Like Heroines Run The Show

In order to continue pursuing track and field, Hiyori left her small hometown and moved to Tokyo. After her father gets injured, she takes a part-time job

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Ranking Retro Anime Watch Priority

List of anime: • Aim for the Ace • Akage no Anne • Akira • Angel’s Egg • Ashita no Joe • Barefoot Gen • Beck • Belladonna of Sadness • Berserk • Birdy the Mighty • Bubblegum Crisis •…

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Kanojo, Okarishimasu: Utter Rubbish

Kanojo, Okarishimasu is a late 2020 anime from TMS. We know them from such series as Sengoku Otome, Glass no Kamen & Wizardry. So, not the best record.…

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Yuki

Forty years ago, the famed "social realism" film director Imai Tadashi released his one and only anime movie, Yuki . It was based on a 1976 ...

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To-Y Blu-ray

To-Y is a 1987 OVA about a Japanese indie rock band and its lead singer. It is based on a ten-volume manga by Kamijou Atsuji. To-Y …

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Anime Series Like Opera Girl

After being forced out of her idol group due to a stalker fostering her discomfort with men, Ai Narata seeks to use her talents at the prestigious Kouka…

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The Secret of the Scarlet Hand

detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,

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Rivalry In Glass no Kamen (1984)

A rival is a trope you can find in any medium, including anime. But just because it's a common trope, that doesn't mean that it's always done well.…

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First Impression: Kageki Shojo!!

The Red Flower Opera Music School (Kouka for short), trains young women for the all-female acting troupe of the same name, and is auditioning its 100th class. With…

Beneath the Tangles

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B.B. Fish

There just aren't enough anime about scuba diving. Yes, there was Grand Blue , but it was primarily a gross-out comedy. And there was Amanch...

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Glass no Kamen: Christians of Spring and Winter

Glass no Kamen (2005), one of the adaptations of Suzue Miuchi’s 1976 manga, has recently brought me back to the joys of my time as an amateur theater…

Beneath the Tangles

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Weekly Round-Up, 20-26 January 2021: Glass Mask Sake, Yamada Naoko’s Influence, and Tokyo Mew Mew

AniFem Round-Up  All Folks Bright and Beautiful: The casual gender diversity of Heaven’s Design Team Dee highlights what makes this edutainment manga so charming. Cozy Campfires, Bitter Broth:…

Anime Feminist

2020 In the Rear View Mirror (and Holiday Giveaway Winner)

 First of all, I have to thank everyone who participated in this year's Holiday Review Giveaway.  I've never gotten so many responses in the 8 1/2 years I've…

The Manga Test Drive

Manga Made for Theater: Maku Musubi

Whether it’s Glass Mask or Beastars, there’s something exciting about seeing theatrical performances in manga. Perhaps it’s because we’re viewing a medium that thrives on ingenuity in presentation…

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Chatty AF 124: Glass Mask Watchalong – Episodes 18-22

Vrai, Megan, and Marion reach the finale of Glass Mask and talk about the history of disability drag in acting, the (still running) manga, and their feelings on…

Anime Feminist

Chatty AF 123: Glass Mask Watchalong — Episodes 12-17

Vrai, Megan, and Marion continue to make their way through the 1984 shoujo series. Maya plays a doll, every love interest is terrible, and the fated rivals…

Anime Feminist

Chatty AF 121: Glass Mask Watchalong – Episodes 6-11

Part two of our watchalong of the 1984 classic, Glass Mask! Vrai, Megan, and Marion talk about stage moms, scene stealing (in-universe and out), and why this ’80s…

Anime Feminist

Chatty AF 120: Glass Mask Watchalong – Episodes 1-5

Vrai is joined by classic shoujo fans Megan and Marion to watch the 1984 classic, Glass Mask! Acting has never been so much like a shounen training arc.

Anime Feminist

Weekly Round-Up, 26 February – 3 March 2020: Glass Mask Retrospective, Accessibility at Cons, and JK Rowling Misunderstanding Japanese

AniFem Round-Up Power, Oppression, and Victimhood in The Twelve Kingdoms versus The Rising of the Shield Hero Caitlin compares two isekai about a protagonist betrayed by everyone and…

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Banana Fish Part 1 (with Marion Bea)

Covers volumes 1 through 11 of Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida It’s a perfect day to discuss Banana Fish, the revived classic about how everyone — except some select…

Shojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast

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40c. The Mobilization of Shōjo Culture pt. 2

The theatrical elite that seek to shape Maya’s destiny have, quite literally, no regard for her genetic family, only for how her social relations might be reshaped so…

What is Manga?

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OtakuGeneration (Show #241) Avatar (movie)

  Shownotes :: (show 241) :: () :: () :: () :: () WithJames Cameron's Avatar (movie), recorded live January 17th, 2010. This week we went to the movies to see…

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Glass Mask (2005): NEW ROLES ARE BORN FROM PAIN.

When I started poking around Crunchyroll several months ago, the first oddity I noticed was not that they carried Fist of the North Star or even Galaxy Express…

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