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A Very GLORIO trip to Scotland Loves Animation 2023

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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Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White 30th Anniversary Edition Manga Review

Taiyō Matsumoto's Tekkonkikreet is a powerful manga, one unique and beautiful in its off-beat presentation and heartbreaking/warming in its characters and themes.

Anime News Network - Views

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Pick of the Week: Josei and the Street Punk Cats

MICHELLE: It's 100% My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku for me. So much josei nowadays! SEAN: I'll pick the other josei title, then. Not only do I…

Manga Bookshelf

Tekkonkinkreet

By Jasper Sharp. Directed by the LA-born Michael Arias, and adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto’s cult manga of the same name, Tekkonkinkreet depicts the adventures of two young street…

All the Anime

UTOPA (1080p)

Recently, a fellow who goes by the handle Ioroid has been uploading high-quality 1080p webstreams of a number of Orphan's releases. We've al...

Collectr's Blog

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Tekkonkinkreet (鉄コン筋クリート, Michael Arias, 2006)

A pair of orphan street kids find battle to save their town from gangster developers in Michael Arias’ atmospheric adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga.

Windows on Worlds

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No. 5: Spectacularly Weird

If you’re an anime nerd, you’ve probably heard of Taiyo Matsumoto’s classic manga Tekkonkinkreet; it was made into a critically acclaimed movie after all. Of course, me being…

Weeb Revues

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Which Art Style is “Better”: Stylised or Realistic?

Quite often online, especially within the twitter space, I'll see a tweet asking "Which manga has the best art?". It's more a question that can be answered based…

lines in motion

Summer 2021 – Week 7 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time! I’ve got a couple choice film cuts for you all today, as we explored an old American classic, and…

Wrong Every Time

Pick of the Week: Five Alive

KATE: If you’d told me five years ago that VIZ would be re-issuing Taiyo Matsumoto’s No. 5, I’d have chuckled and thought, “Boy, is this person naïve! VIZ…

Manga Bookshelf

Ep. 10: TekkonKinkreet Black & White

Perhaps our most anticipated episode, TekkonKinkreet is a manga that’s had a powerful effect on many readers and comic creators, including this week’s host Christopher. Will Chip Zdarsky…

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Caturday Treat: Why You Should Read Cats of the Louvre

I know a great manga or graphic novel when it continues to stick in my head long after I’m done reading it. Cats of the Louvre is that…

Bloom Reviews

299 – Yu Yu Hakusho part 6

On this episode Seamus finishes rereading Vinland Saga, Morgana enjoys BL Metamorphosis, and dakazu loves creepy girls with mind powers in Meiko no Asobiba! And we’ve finally arrived…

Manga Machinations

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Anime On the Big Screen: “Children of the Sea”

Venue: Dendy Cinemas, Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City, ACT Date: Sunday 22 December 2019 Dist...

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

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r#130 – tekkonkinkreet

Today movie recommendation is a Winter-ish movie which had released more than a decade ago, won the Best Film at the 2006 Mainichi Film Concours, and a year…

#moe404, the not so great anime BLOG

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Taiyo Matsumoto talks shop with one of his favorite artists, Fumiko Takano

This conversation was published December 2006, when the Tekkon Kinkreet movie came out in theaters and Matsumoto was in the early stages of Takemitsu Zamurai. The artist he’s talking…

manga brog

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Ao no Exorcist (Blue Exorcist) Movie: Directed by Atsushi...

Ao no Exorcist (Blue Exorcist) Movie: Directed by Atsushi Takahashi, Art Directed by Shinji Kimura(Tekkonkinkreet). Created by A-1 Pictures.

AnimeBackgrounds

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Secret Santa: House of Five Leaves

For those who don’t know Secret Santa… In my first year of participation, I got to choose between Tekkon Kinkreet, Manabi Straight, and House of Five Leaves. Since…

Numbers and space

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OtakuGeneration (Show #210) TEKKONKINKREET

  NOTE: This was also cross posted in the LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 210) :: () :: () :: () :: () With TEKKONKINKREET, recorded live June 15th, 2009. Over…

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