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Guard from Underground (1992)
Kurosawa’s early slasher is a successful stylistic experiment that anyone who calls himself a fan of Japanese horror should see.


Manga Talk: Underground from Saturday AM
I check out a new series from Saturday AM magazine called Underground. Story & Art by JR De Bard Published by Rockport Publishers Follow the magazine https://twitter.com/Saturday_am Follow…


FEATURE: The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 S/S!
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FEATURE: The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 S/S! DAY FIVE
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FEATURE: The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 S/S! DAY SIX
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FEATURE: The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 S/S! DAY TWO
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FEATURE: The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 S/S! DAY THREE
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FEATURE: The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 S/S! DAY FOUR + BAPE
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Mole Stations: Six Japanese Train Stations That Force You Underground
How far down would YOU go to catch a ride to work? Meet six "mole stations" in Japan that put the "sub" in "subway".


Underground, Encouragement of Euthanasia, Hare no kuni, Japanese Film Trailers
Underground, Encouragement of Euthanasia, Hare no kuni, Japanese Film Trailers


FEATURE: The Harajuku Line: Forgotten Fashion Monsters of Japanese V-Cinema
3 Imaginary Films That Don't Exist (But Should)


Underground: Haruki Murakami
There’s been a lot of talk about cults lately, mostly one cult in particular. And I keep seeing the name Aum Shinrikyo tossed around in that context, people…
Tokyo's Underground Labyrinth 2 - Getting From Tokyo Station to Ginza
Tokyo has a great set of tunnels, basements of buildings, and subterranean malls. In some malls and buildings you might not even realize yo...


THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 10 — WIND FROM THE MOUNTAINS
Helloooo everyone! I squeezed this review in between the Fujocon panels I attended. This has been a very fun, exciting, and sleep-deprived weekend and I’ll write about my…


The Guard From Underground (地獄の警備員, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1992)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa positions an office building as an industrial hell but suggests it’s only one of many hazards to be aware of for a woman in the corporate…


FEATURE: Japanese Teen Fashion Unspun: The Rise and Fall of Spinns in Harajuku
For the first time in twenty years, Tokyo’s youth culture mecca Harajuku has no Spinns.


Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Guard From Underground” Revived by Third Window Films’ Director’s Company Collection
Details of the Remaster of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Guard From Underground”, as released on Blu-Ray by Third Window Films through their Director’s Company Collection


Underground Strategy Report #4
Drawing conclusions Hello! I’m the Firsty Duelist, and this is my fourth installment in my weekly Undercards deck overview series. (In case you don’t know, Undercards is a…


Underground Strategy Report #6
Where did all these monsters come from? Hello there! I’m the Firsty Duelist, and today I’m doing another one of my weekly Undercards deck review posts! This time…


Underground Strategy Report #7
Plugging in to shock your foes! Hello there! I’m the Firsty Duelist, and I am doing another of my weekly Undercards deck reviews!In case you don’t know what…


Underground Strategy Report #5
Hey! Watch where you’re slinging those spells! Hey there! Firsty here, and once again I’m doing my weekly Undercards deck report! This time around it’s a deck I…


Underground Strategy Report #2
Here We Are, talking about Amalgamates Hello! I’m the Firsty Duelist, and I’m here talking about another Undercards deck I’ve been experimenting with lately. This time, it’s…


Underground Strategy Report #3
Spiders. Lots and lots of spiders! Hey there, Firsty Duelist here, with yet another installation in my weekly Undercards deck overview! In case you don’t know what Undercards…
Underground Strategy Report #8
NOW’S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A champion! Hello there! I’m the Firsty Duelist, and I am herby making my triumphant return to blogging after I took the last…


Underground Strategy Report #1
Is Mettaton EX worth your Gold? Hey there! I’m the Firsty Duelist, and recently I’ve gotten super invested in a digital card game inspired by the UNDERTALE and…
Eureka Seven Ep. 43: The Sunshine Underground
Summary Several military craft fly over Temple City. Dominic, who is on the ground with some other soldiers, says the world has completely changed. He says he thought…
Taking notes from my 2017 seasonal viewing – 9th Day
It was a nice year for anime series, or at least, it seems that way to me while looking at years past. Nearly every season had dazzling animation…


The Guard From Underground 地獄の警備員 (1992) Remaster Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Guard From Underground 地獄の警備員 (1992) Remaster, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is a solid slasher film that features a psychotic sumo wrestler smashing the world of corporate Japan.…


Japanese Animation, 1937-1958: or, more notes on Akira Daikuhara
The origin and core of this piece is my personal interest in Daikuhara, but it will not be another biographical piece like my previous one. I will rather…


Best Anime Feature?
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Underground FANTASY in Hollow Knight
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Feature: A painter behind the curtain
I came for a romance story and A painter behind the curtain gave me even more than that.


Notes from AX 2022 Coming Soon! (No blog post today)
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Notes before the new year
Nothing special today; I just have a few comments to make about where the site might be headed in the coming year. • I’ll likely keep mixing the…


4 Life Lessons From Japanese Playgrounds
There is a lot a day at the playground can tell you about Japan and parenting.
Japanese club receives praise from Ofsted...
Japanese club receives praise from Ofsted Ofsted have ...


Japanese Verb From "I Can't" #learnjapanese
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Spy X Family – 10 [The Underground Tennis Tournament: The Campbelldon]
Welcome back, to another episode of SpyxFamily! This is late, I know, I’m really slowing down this holiday season and I apologize for that. Lots of irons in…


Seiyuu Feature: Mariya Ise
Next on our list is a Seiyuu with versatility. And I mean it. You don’t see her name often as she has made her mark in the voice…


New feature: Trending anime
Hello! On Friday, I dropped a new feature… Trending anime. It’s just a nice way to see, at a glance, which (new) anime series are proving popular with…


Seiyuu Feature: Katsuyuki Konishi
What is the first thing when you hear his name? A leader? A hero? A mecha pilot? A brother? A Pokémon? If you guess them all, then you…


New feature: My subscriptions
I’ve got rather an exciting new feature to announce for Anime Blog Tracker today: subscription feeds! You should now be able to subscribe to your favourite blogs and…


Underrated Manga Double Feature
Today I cover both Run With Your New Legs and Parham Itan. discovered these two manga back in May and 'm surprise we don't talk about them more!
Ishiro Honda Double Feature
by Jeremy Clarke. Out now on Blu-ray alongside the standalone release of Mothra (1961) comes a double bill of two more Toho science fiction movies, The H Man…


Seiyuu Feature: Kenjiro Tsuda
Seiyuu (声優)A person who provides voice-overs for characters and narration for various types of media. Includes anime, video games, audio dramas, radio, live-action stints, and dubbing for non-Japan…
Protected: Reorienting Japanese Studies with Views from the Nan’yo
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Double Feature Memories, Part 2: The 1970s
In an earlier post this year, I recounted some of the great double bills I got to see in the 1960s in New York theaters. For Part 2,…


Double Feature Memories, Part 1: The 1960s
Turner Classic Movies has an eight-minute interstitial called “Two for One: The Tradition of the Double Feature,” and features Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg recalling the great double…
Demo Disc Vol. 22: Underground & Underexposed?
Debuting on March 12, 1991, Monthly Shonen Gangan marked the start of Enix's foray into publishing, and it's still running to this very day ...