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The City Hunter Cinema Survey – Goodbye My Sweetheart (aka City Hunter: The Motion Picture)

While working my way through these various films, specials and OVAs there’s been an ongoing struggle to find much new to say with each iteration. There’s only so…

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The City Hunter Cinema Survey – The Secret Service

By the mid 1990s those last vestiges of 80s decadence had well and truly been overshadowed by stark reality and economic hardship. Especially in Japan, whose world-beating but…

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The City Hunter Cinema Survey – Double Feature! Bay City Wars and Million Dollar Conspiracy

The year 1990 saw a relatively significant slowdown in City Hunter’s anime output from its late 80s peak. The third TV series finished up in the Autumn 1989…

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The City Hunter Cinema Survey – .357 Magnum (AKA, Magnum Of Love And Fate)

City Hunter was doing pretty well for itself in 1989. The second TV anime adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s manga following the adventures of dirty-minded detective Ryo Saeba was…

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Summer In The City – City Hunter TV 1

  I’m an absolute mark for 80s and 90s action cinema. Representative as some of them may be of an overbearing masculinity that sought to quell the voices…

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Ireland In Anime: Folklore, Fairies and Familiar Familiars

 It’s that time of the year again, when for a brief day the far flung countries of the world bend over backwards to stake out their connections to a…

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Missteps in Welcome To The Ballroom

(Putting the delinquency in Juve-Niall Delinquency! Here’s a post that was intended for 2017’s 12 Days Of Anime challenge which, for my very first year of participation not…

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Re-Entering The Ring with Tiger Mask W

Tiger Mask is an ubiquitous figure that anime fans of a certain age have some semblance of familiarity with, either via Ikki Kajiwara & Naoki Tsuji’s manga or…

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The Pulp Fiction Priests of Vatican Miracle Examiner

Coming from Ireland I’ve been surrounded all my life by the rituals & iconography of Christianity. Our culture has been steeped in it for centuries, often to an…

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The Lucky Losers of Magical Circle Guru Guru

Make no mistake, there is a LOT of anime coming out these days. Probably too much, if not for an audience to keep up with then certainly for…

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