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Penguindrum Episode Analyses Part 4

Disclaimers: 1) This Penguindrum project will be categorized under episode reviews, but it won’t work the same way as my usual episode reviews. Each entry in this blog…

Anime Rants

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Penguindrum Episode Analyses Part 3

Disclaimers: 1) The Penguindrum project will be categorized under episode reviews, but it won’t work the same way as my usual episode reviews. Each entry in this blog…

Anime Rants

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Penguindrum Episode Analyses Part 2

Disclaimers: 1) This Penguindrum project will be categorized under episode reviews, but it won’t work the same way as my usual episode reviews. Each entry in this blog…

Anime Rants

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Penguindrum Episode Analyses Part 1

Thanks for stopping by Anime Rants! I’m quite excited about starting this new blog series, but before I jump right into it, a few things need to be…

Anime Rants

Re:Cycle of the Penguindrum Hits UK Cinemas This May for One Day Only

The good folks from anime distributors Anime Limited have revealed that they'll be releasing Re:Cycle of the Penguindrum in the UK exclusive...

Otaku News - World Edition

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13 Existential Anime To Contemplate Philosophy With

Whether you are a student of philosophy or just wish to put an entertaining salve on your own existential crisis in progress, then give these wonderful

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Re:cycle of Penguindrum

Ultimately, this is still the same Penguindrum people already know and love, just condensed, slightly restructured, and with just a bare minimum of new material.

Anime News Network - Views

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Weekly Round-Up, 22-28 March 2023: Age of Consent Raised, Josei Recommendations, and Japanese Novel Translations

AniFem Round-Up The Infantilization and Sexualization of Inoue Orihime in Bleach A case study in how an increasing amount of fanservice affected the quality of Orihime’s character arc.…

Anime Feminist

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Ugly Things Cannot Be Loved: Penguindrum and the dilemma of Yuri

Yuri’s assault of Ringo show us how the tensions and arguable flaws in Penguindrum point to unresolved questions in our movements for liberation.

Anime Feminist

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What I Watched This Week – 3/5-3/11

Penguindrum – While I haven’t seen everything Ikuhara has done, of the four I’ve seen, this is far and away my favorite. I was enthralled with it pretty…

The Romantic Goldfish

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Penguindrum – One by One The Penguins Steal My Sanity

Genre: Beautifully undefinable Episodes: 24 Studio: Brain’s Base I don’t know what a Penguindrum is. Not exactly. We’re never told in clear terms. That’s the type of story…

I drink and watch anime

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An Anime Otaku Guide and Itinerary For Tokyo

If you're an anime fan, then a visit to Tokyo is not just a visit to Japan, but a bit of a pilgrimage to the heart of Anime…

Tokyo Excess

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Chainsaw Man and Penguindrum - Found Families, Purpose and Grace

Lots of people have been telling me that Chainsaw Man's anime adaptation failed, didn't live up to the manga, missed the point, ect. Just a short video to…

clearandsweet

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A Very GLORIO trip to Scotland Loves Animation 2022

Scotland Loves Animation returned this year, bringing a curated selection of movie premieres and classics to the big screen. Three of us attended the latest instalment, where we…

The Glorio Blog

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10 Anime Series About Characters With Serious Illnesses

While there are certainly a number of anime characters who manifest the mysterious anime cough of imminent death, anime series featuring sickly characters

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Anime Series Like Yurei Deco

The city of Tom Sawyer is an augmented reality society where citizens buy and sell services and appearance augmentations with Love, a currency akin to

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Re:cycle Penguindrum

By Andrew Osmond. In Penguindrum, a dorky penguin hat – that’s a hat that looks like a penguin, not one made out of penguins – brings a beautiful…

All the Anime

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Fanart Friday: Princess of the Crystal

It’s been more than ten years since Mawaru Penguindrum premiered and it remains one of the most creative and best anime ever produced. Re:cycle of Penguindrum, a re-editing…

Beneath the Tangles

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Character Analysis: Momoka Oginome

As weird as it is, there is A LOT A LOT to like about Penguindrum. The main trio of characters, Shoma, Kanba, and Himari, are really well-constructed characters…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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Unhealthy Obsessions in Mawaru Penguindrum

Mawaru Penguindrum is filled to the brim with colorful characters and their wacky and/or dramatic interactions with each other. There are many flavors of struggles and challenges these…

Mono's Anime Rants

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Ranking 12 Times Dvorak’s New World Symphony was Used in Anime

New World Symphony is a hype piece. Many people know it for the slow and pastoral Second Movement, “Goin’ Home,” but when I think of it, I think…

The Moyatorium

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Penguindrum – Messy Characters Who Try To Hold Onto Something

I’ve only ever written about Utena a while back and a little bit about Sarazanmai when it was airing a while back, but I haven’t discussed all of…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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Tomohiro Furukawa, Revue Starlight The Movie, And The Legacy Of Experience-Centric Anime

Tomohiro Furukawa draws from the philosophy and methods of living legends like Mamoru Oshii, Hideaki Anno, and his mentor Kunihiko Ikuhara. He reconstructs their teaching and his influences…

Sakuga Blog

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22 Mindfuck Anime Series Designed to Leave You Ponderous

Mindfuckery – You're supposed to avoid swearing in articles you are writing. It's not professional. However, there is no better way describe some anime

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Character Analysis: Ringo Oginome

You may or may not like Penguindrum – it’s certainly weird, that’s for sure – but as I watched it I was struck by how many characters with…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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Weekly Round-Up, 26 January – 1 February 2022: Pokemon Legends, Tokyopop Anniversary, and Penguindrum

AniFem Round-Up Anime Feminist Recommendations of Fall 2021 It’s short but this season also had one of the best anime of the year. Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for…

Anime Feminist

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What Penguindrum Can Teach Us About Extremism

When the series was originally released in 2011, it was hard to separate this message from the packaging: one of the most bizarre and traumatic events in modern…

Anime News Network - Views

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The Power of Three: Penguindrum

Penguindrum is one of those thing, like Wonder Egg Priority, that people have been recommending to me, like, forever. Really. Seriously. For ever. A Certain Retailer had two…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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Natsu no Sora: Tokyo in the Summer

If you’ve watched anime before, you’ve probably seen Tokyo on screen. It’s the neon cityscapes of Akira, the mechanized skyline of Tokyo 3 and the underground train system…

Isn't It Electrifying?

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Penguindrum (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing

After a few messy 1080i Blu-rays and a DVD only release from KAZE UK, Penguindrum is back with a 1080p transfer and collector’s packaging from Anime Limited.

The Normanic Vault

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Penguindrum (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing

After a few messy 1080i Blu-rays and a DVD only release from KAZE UK, Penguindrum is back with a 1080p transfer and collector’s packaging from Anime Limited.

The Normanic Vault

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Ten Year Anniversary: Tribute To 2011’s Greatest Anime Series (Part 2 of 2)

Celebrating 2011 anime-- part 2. Penguindrum, Future Diary, Nichijou, Steins;gate, Yuru Yuri

Anime Rants

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Anime Series Like Sonny Boy

One normal day during summer vacation, the school and the 36 students inside began to drift into another dimension. Once there, many of the students begin to develop…

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“The Box Scene”– Penguindrum Anime Rant

An analysis of the scene in penguindrum where the boys are in boxes-- plus some other concepts.

Anime Rants

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Weird Anime: 20 Ridiculous and Bizarre Anime Series Ever Made

If you watch enough anime, as I have been doing over two decades at this point, your are bound to run into some weird ones. Admittedly, anime has…

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Mawaru Penguindrum MBTI

It's time to explore the MBTI personality types of Penguindrum characters!

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Penguindrum

By Andrew Osmond. In Penguindrum, a dorky penguin hat – that’s a hat that looks like a penguin, not one made out of penguins – brings a beautiful…

All the Anime

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[Tagless Tag] My Pirate Crew is 2 Years Late but Still Very Powerful

As the title says and as you should learn to expect by now, this tag has been in my backlog forever before I randomly decided to engage with…

The Moyatorium

Manga the Week of 5/5/21

SEAN: May Comes In Like a Tiger! What manga do we have next week? Airship has an early digital release of Hello World, a one-shot SF novel about…

Manga Bookshelf

Manga the Week of 4/21/21

SEAN: The end of April, and the daffodils are blooming. What manga do we have? Airship gives us a print version of the 10th Mushoku Tensei novel and…

Manga Bookshelf

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Why Mawaru Penguindrum makes sense – when it shouldn’t

In many ways Mawaru Penguindrum defies attempts to make sense of its plot details, but it doesn’t care. It wants you to cry alongside its cast.

Alo's Watchlist

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Mawaru Penguindrum – Nothing but love itself is as it seems

The twists and turns in Mawaru Penguindrum will take you to places you’d never believe in this incredibly imaginative anime.

Alo's Watchlist

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Fanart Friday: Mawaru Penguindrum 10th Anniversary Film

One of our favorite anime series here on Beneath the Tangles is Mawaru Penguindrum, Kunihiko Ikuhara’s colorful, sometimes dark, sometimes whimsical series involving terrorists, magical girl …

Beneath the Tangles

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The Episode 1 anime dice roll (rolls 4 – 7)

Today I keep on rolling rolling rolling through my lists of anime that I haven’t watched yet to find something promising. This time I ended up with a…

Everything is bad for you

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Anime Series Like Wonder Egg Priority

After the death of her best and only friend, Ai Ohto became a shut in. One night while on a walk, she is convinced by a mysterious entity…

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The Kunihiko Ikuhara school for teachers (why Wonder Egg Priority’s Sawaki is bad actually)

Is Shuuichirou Sawaki all that bad? I’ve seen this question asked fairly frequently as Wonder Egg Priority has continued to air. Sawaki, who is protagonist Ai Ohto’s teacher…

atelier emily

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Ai Ohto’s room and safety in Wonder Egg Priority

Private rooms and home decor can be used in pointed ways to tell us more about the characters they belong to and Wonder Egg Priority once again seems…

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A (relatively) short Ikuhara primer, Naoko Yamada, and the “egg” in Wonder Egg Priority

This season’s latest critical darling, Shin Wakabayashi’s Wonder Egg Priority, has been described as, if Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum) and Naoko Yamada…

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Favourite Anime I watched in 2020– They may have come out years ago

Once again it’s time for a favourite anime of the year post. I have a bit of a tradition with these posts! It’s a pretty straight up tradition,…

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Anime Series Like Arakawa Under the Bridge

Kou Ichinomiya, as the son of a wealthy businessman, has vowed never to become indebted to anyone. However,when he falls in the river under Arakawa Bridge, someone dives…

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