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Mikane and the Sea Woman (Update)
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the new series I was reading, Mikane and the Sea Woman, and how it went from typical love/coming-of-age shenanigans to horror…
Mikane and the Sea Woman (Manga Review)
Mikane, a boy on the cusp of manhood, returns to the small-town island community where he was born to live with his father. Walking along the beach, he…
Mikane and the Sea Woman is a promising romance manga
Thuy’s Vapor Rub was playing when I came across Mikane and the Sea Woman. How fitting. This is a really sweet manga, with some undefined undertones about to…
Urusei Yatsura – 40 – The Young Man Dressed Like a Woman and the Sea
When the newly-resurrected Nagisa has no place else to go, Ryuunosuke and her dad invite him into their house, but he proves to be an annoying freeloader who…
Children of the Sea – When the Sea and Stars Meet
Here is another look at an anime film from Netflix. I am very behind on anime films that have appeared on the streaming service. Here is an attempt…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 8 [Lost at Sea]
Welcome everyone, to another week of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! This is a slow week all thing considered, which is weird when you realize it’s also…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 4 [Conflict at the Snow Sea]
Welcome everyone, to another episode of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! This week we finally reach civilization, as Kaina escapes the Valghians and gets pulled deeper and…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 2 [Princess of the Snow Sea]
Welcome everyone, to my 2nd show of the season, Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! For the sake my sanity, and word count, I’m just going to call…
Love of Kill – 05 – A Pest On Land and Sea
Hou takes Chateau hostage and sticks her in the back of a car with a bomb, but as soon as she spots the bomb, she’s able to escape…
Oh, So Tropical: The He-Can’t-Love-Me Woman
In a lot of ways romance animes are some of the dumbest on the air. I mean, seriously? You have Person A and Person B and everyone knows…
Parade Parade and the Phallic Woman Fantasy
The narrative violence of the film, to those of us who relate to Kaori’s position, is not at all unlike how the world outside of Parade Parade treats…
The Sea Mystery
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
Sensou Douwa: The Boy and the Sea Turtle
Sensou Douwa ( War Tales or War Fables ) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In…
Nora, Noramimi, Yakeato no, Okashi no Ki, Blade of the Immortal, Boku no Boukuugou
Sea You, Sea Me
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs (Volume 17) – That’s the Woman I Fell in Love With!
Kogarashi is excited about the school trip to Kyoto since the last time, he was being possessed continuously. However, all of the girls seem to have decided this…
Josee, The Tiger and the Fish - Between the Beasts and the Sea
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is an oft-adapted piece of writing. Originally penned by Seiko Tanabe and weighing in at only a handful of pages, its multiple…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 10 [The Builder]
Welcome everyone, to the penultimate episode of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! This week sees some questionable decisions, both in universe and out. What am I talking…
Yohane The Parhelion Episode 4: Air and Sea
Makes sense to take a little breather after the absolute perfection that was Episode 3. You and Kanan time!
The End of Kantai Collection ~Air/My Purest Love for Sea~
The photo album feeling is deliberate.
Yuki, The Snow Woman
In a village of Musashi Province, there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku and Minokichi. At the time of which I am speaking, Mosaku was an old man; and Minokichi,…
Children of the Sea
By Kambole Campbell. When compared to the decompressed pace of a manga series, the film adaptation Children of the Sea could never feasibly provide all the answers a…
'The Old Man and the Sea' Is a Tremendous Spectacle
Plus: international animation news.
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 5 [Rescue Mission]
Welcome everyone, to another week of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! Continuing its upward rise through the season, this was another good episode for Kaina, with a…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 7 [Fortress Nation]
Note: Turns out, I forgot to hit post on this earlier this week. Um… Oops? Welcome all, to another week of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! This…
The Otakusphere: Love, love, love and loneliness
It looks like I’m doomed. I simply can’t escape Valentine’s Day this week. Love (or at least cards and romance shows) is in the air across The Otakusphere…
Ash Woman
灰の女 (hai no onna, Ash Woman , 1970) is a detective story by TAKAGI Akimitsu (高木 彬光) featuring his series detective, prosecutor KIRISHIMA Sab...
Love and lost at sea- two 2019 summer anime movies (half a year later)
I had the fortune to see two anime movies at the cinemas when I visited Tokyo for holidays this summer, which really is the way anime movies should…
The sea is the womb of the Universe- a Children of the Sea review
There are times that as fans of a manga we know that its aesthetics and its plot turns and curves aren’t easy to translate into animation- taking in…
Higehiro – 05 – The Mysterious Woman
I love the series that can replicate the same butterflies in the viewer’s stomach that the characters have in a particular scene, such as when Yoshida takes Gotou…
High School Girls, Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway
Woman in the Hand Mirror
Author: Ukari (translated with author’s permission, please visit their website to see the original Japanese works!) To say here is far, The post Woman in the Hand Mirror first…
Issue #82: Conceive the Sea
Exploring the new marucporoporo album, Shizuka Kudo's "Arashi No Sugao" and the indie-rock hits on TikTok
Ryukyu: Empire of the Sea
Shlepped myself out to Chiba last month, to the National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku) to see their new temporary special exhibit, Umi no teikoku: Ryukyu 海の帝国：琉球 ,…
The Inland Sea Documentary Review
This is a review of the 2018 Japanese documentary Inland Sea, directed by Kazuhiro Soda.
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Japanese Title: むらさきのスカートの女 (Murasaki no sukāto no onna)Author: Natsuko Imamura (今村 夏子)Translator: Lucy NorthPublication Year: 2019 (Japan); 2021 (United States)Publisher: Penguin BooksPages: 216 T…
The Woman with the Flying Head
Author: Yumiko Kurahashi (倉橋由美子)Translator: Atsuko SakakiPublisher: M. E. SharpePublication Year: 1997Pages: 159 Yumiko Kurahashi was a member of the generation of female writers whose work began a…
The Song of the Sea (Review)
Director: Tomm Moore Company(s): Cartoon Saloon, Digital Graphics, Magellan Films, Melusine Productions, Noerlum Studios Year: 2014 ...
Sea Breeze and Easy on the Mind – Houkago Teibou Nisshi
Rejoice! This anime made a quick recovery after a brief hiatus due to COVID. The series aired it’s first three episodes during the spring season, and returned rather…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 11 [Scale of Hope]
Welcome everyone, to the grand finale for Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! Or at least the most finale we are going to get until the movie in…
Kaina and the Great Snow Sea Anime Review – 61/100
CGI has had a bad rep in anime fandoms for a long time, and it isn’t undeserved. From Berserk (2016) to that bear in Golden Kamuy, studios typically…
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 3 [Traveling Down the Orbital Tree]
Welcome back, to another week of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! This week we reach the bottom of the tree, Ririha and Kaina get to know each…
Review: The Woman in the Storm (2023)
The Woman in the Storm 我经过风暴 China, 2023, color, 2.35:1, 100 mins. Director: Qin Haiyan 秦海燕. Rating: 6/10. Drama on domestic violence promises more than it delivers, but…
Lupin III The Woman Called Fujiko Mino – 3 [The Lady and the Samurai]
Welcome to episode 3 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine! Apologies for the wait on this one. This is the only series I dont have a schedule for…
The Silent Sea (2021) [Drama Review]
The Silent Sea; or, 2021: A Lunar Odyssey Not a damn thing works smoothly in this station. I have been looking forward to The Silent Se...
Rommel of the Sea of Sand
Rommel of the Sea of Sand Manga Chapter 16-3 Manga Chapter Summary: The Conductor announces the 999’s next stop as “Desert Fox”,…
Art Directing 'Song of the Sea'
A moving Irish storybook.
Review: Across the Furious Sea (2023)
Across the Furious Sea 涉过愤怒的海 China, 2023, colour, 2.35:1, 142 mins. Director: Cao Baoping 曹保平. Rating: 3/10. Overheated drama-thriller about a father hunting his daughter’s killer is ludicrously…
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....
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Kaina and the Great Snow Sea – 6 [Ririha in a Cage]
Welcome everyone, to the halfway point of the season and another episode of Kaina and the Great Snow Sea! This is a bit of a slower week, even…
Pumpkin Scissors – The Woman in the Morning Mist
Drama Pumpkin Scissors (2006)The Woman in the Morning Mist (Episode 9)Director: Katsuhito Akiyama Writer: Yoshifumi Fukushima Not only, but especially back in the heyday of sitcoms, an episode…
The Apothecary Diaries – 15 – In the (Sea)Weeds
Our mysterious monacled official, Lakan, is a good listener. He’s napping on a balcony when he overhears that the warehouse fire case wasn’t actually solved by Lihaku, but…