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FAQ (막걸리가 알려줄거야, Kim Da-min 2024) [Fantasia 2024]

The sad thing is that Dong-chun, the heroine of Kim Da-min’s charming if also searingly bleak exploration of a Korean education FAQ (막걸리가 알려줄거야), is full of questions…

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Aug 6, 2024 • Subscribe

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House of Sayuri (サユリ, Koji Shiraishi, 2024) [Fantasia 2024]

An excited family discover the perils of buying a “used” home in Koji Shiraishi anarchic haunted house horror House of Sayuri

Windows on Worlds

Aug 7, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Kizumonogatari – Koyomi Vamp – (2024) review [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]

An evocative experience that succeeds in giving the vampire and the well-explored themes a fresh coat of drama and sexiness.  

psycho-cinematography

Jul 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Popcorn Pulse 193: Mash Potatoes

You know what makes a movie work? Like really, really work? Is it well directed acting? A strong sense of shot composition or perhaps lighting? No, you film…

Anime Pulse

Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

A Samurai in Time (侍タイムスリッパー, Junichi Yasuda, 2024) [Fantasia 2024]

A lone samurai struggles to adjust after being unceremoniously transported to our times in Junichi Yasuda’s time slip dramedy.

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The Umbrella Fairy (伞少女, Shen Jie, 2024) [Fantasia 2024]

Should you be bound by the past or try to forge your own destiny? It might be an odd question seeing as the central thesis of Shen Jie’s…

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House of Sayuri (2024) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

The thoughtful manipulation of this atmospheric field is integral to create an effective and engaging genre-blend.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 11, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2024 Programme

In Montreal July 18 to Aug, 4.

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Jul 14, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Kemono Jihen Review: The Monster Mash

Studio: Ajia-do Animation Works Director: Masaya Fujimori Streaming on: Funimation Deep in rural Japan, a village has been plagued by a string of strange animal deaths, with corpses…

The Otaku Exhibition

Feb 4, 2021 • Subscribe

Kemono Jihen

Baby Assassins: Good Days (2024) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

Yugo Sakamoto successfully mixes up the formula that structured his previous two action narratives. Highly Recommended.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Fantasia 2024: 6 Japanese films you should not miss.

n this short article, we want to introduce two of our recommendations and four films we look forward to and you should do.

psycho-cinematography

Jul 10, 2024 • Subscribe

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Mashle - Episode 16 - Mash Punches Deadservant Goat

The Deadservant monsters were immune to magic attacks, but that didn't bother Mash. Too bad they healed instantly. Mashle - Episode 16

Joeschmo's Gears and Grounds

Jan 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Fantasia 2010

Tuesday, Fantasia announced the highlights of its programming and posted all the details on its website . The 14th edition of the Fant...

Protoculture News & Updates

Jul 3, 2010 • Subscribe

Bleach, Naruto, King of Thorn, Metropolis, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror

Golden Fantasia

detective fiction, 推理小説、games,

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Brave Citizen (용감한 시민, Park Jin-pyo, 2023) [Fantasia 2024]

A former boxer turned schoolteacher rediscovers the strength to fight back when faced with unchallenged bullies in Park Jin-pyo’s cathartic dramedy.

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Aug 16, 2024 • Subscribe

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Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심, Park Chan-wook, 2022)

Love is a perpetual haunting for a insomniac detective in Park Chan-wook’s achingly romantic noir.

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Oct 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Limecrime (라임크라임, Lee Seung-hwan & Yoo Jae-wook, 2020)

Two teens bond through shared love of hip hop but find their connection strained by class differences in Lee & Yoo’s indie coming-of-age drama

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Baby Assassins: Nice Days (ベイビーわるきゅーれ ナイスデイズ, Yugo Sakamoto, 2024) [Fantasia 2024]

After beginning to conquer the demands of adulthood, Mahiro (Saori Izawa) and Chisato (Akari Takaishi) are taking a well-deserved break, or more like a working holiday to be…

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Our recommendations: Fantasia 2023

Any cinephile should watch these 5 Japanese movies at the Fantasia Film Festival.

psycho-cinematography

Jul 12, 2023 • Subscribe

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Day 10 of Otakutober: It’s a Monster Mash!: Shoujo “monster” tropes

I bet you’ve looked at this title and wondered one thing: why is monster in quotations? Well my friends of the spook season, I’m about to tell you…

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Oct 28, 2020 • Subscribe

Monster

B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA – REVIEW

B-Project is a visual novel that follows the point of view of our heroine Tsubasa Sumisora who works for the 14 idols that are part of four different…

Otome Adventures

Jul 14, 2024 • Subscribe

B-PROJECT

Eureka Seven Ep. 36: Fantasia

Summary At the capital, an Ageha Squad member reports to Dewey that theEnd came into contact with the Nirvash during the firing of Orange 02. They apologize for…

MAHQ

Oct 15, 2023 • Subscribe

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Kizumonogatari -Koyomi Vamp- (傷物語 -こよみヴァンプ-, Tatsuya Oishi, 2023) [Fantasia 2024]

A young man walks into an empty subway station already ominously strewn with blood and finds there the corpse of a woman shorn of her limbs. The corpse…

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Aug 13, 2024 • Subscribe

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B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA is Coming Digitally to Steam and Nintendo Switch on July 15th, 2024!

Otome Fam we have a release date for B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA! PQube and MAGES are excited to announce that sparkling idol-filled visual novel ‘B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA’ is coming to Steam, & Nintendo…

Blerdy Otome

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Fly Me To The Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love (2023) review [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]

A fun romp that works well as an introduction to the cultural diversity that enriches the Japanese archipelago.

psycho-cinematography

Jul 24, 2024 • Subscribe

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It’s a recession…no more Fantasia!

Instead of spending more money on Fantasia I decided to just roll a new toon on a different server. (I’m really cutting down on extra expenses.) This doesn’t…

INJIGO

Jul 15, 2022 • Subscribe

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B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA GAME REVIEW

Release Date: 7/15/24 Developer: MAGES Inc. Genre: Visual Novel, Joseimuke Platform: Steam or Nintendo Switch First off, thanks to the wonderful team at PQube for gifting me a…

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Jul 14, 2024 • Subscribe

B-PROJECT

Shin-Ultraman (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

Higuchi and Anno deliver an impressive love letter to their childhood, yet their devoted love, which is sensible in every aspect of the narrative, might not be able…

psycho-cinematography

Jul 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

First Impression: Fantasia Sango – Realm of Legends

The episode opens with a mighty yell as a beast with glowing horns runs rampant and a musician tries in vain to reason with it. Death is the…

Beneath the Tangles

Jan 11, 2022 • Subscribe

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Tokyo Revengers (2021) Review [Fantasia Film Festival]

“An exciting blend of satisfying violence, tensive moments, surges of pleasing lightheartedness, and touching emotional moments.”

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Aug 16, 2021 • Subscribe

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Shari (シャリ, Nao Yoshigai, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A red monster roams the landscape smearing its blood wherever it goes in Nao Yoshigai’s surreal documentary hybrid.

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Sep 17, 2022 • Subscribe

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Seire (세이레, Park Kang, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A new father finds himself haunted by paternal anxiety and old transgressions in Park Kang’s eerie folk horror.

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Sep 3, 2022 • Subscribe

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River (2023) review [Fantasia Film Fest 2023]

If you like low-key humour and some time-twisting fun, you should not miss Yamaguchi’s latest.    

psycho-cinematography

Aug 1, 2023 • Subscribe

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Fantasia Sango #01 — Mouryou Mouryou Mouryou Mouryou

  I don't like this drinking game. Impressions: Do they get paid every time they say mouryou? My god. It was like they realized that the setting was…

Tenka Seiha

Jan 10, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA, soon in English!

Take 14 young members under your wing, each with different personalities and struggles. It's your job to support them, help them grow, and allow them to flourish!

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Jun 30, 2024 • Subscribe

B-PROJECT

Mad Cats (Reiki Tsuno, 2023) [Fantasia 2023]

The captive felines of Japan are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore in Reiki Tsuno’s absurd action comedy.

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Aug 5, 2023 • Subscribe

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My Broken Mariko (2022) [Fantasia Film Festival]

Tanada offers a compelling exploration of the emotional turmoil a female subject caused by the sudden death of someone important.

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Aug 12, 2022 • Subscribe

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First Look: Fantasia Sango – Realm of Legends

In the Three Kingdoms period of China, a group of ragtag misfits must hunt down the demons that are possessing people and turning them into rampaging monsters.

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Jan 14, 2022 • Subscribe

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Fantasia Sango – Realm of Legends – Episode 1

Fantasia Sango somehow makes The Three Kingdoms boring by being the most tepid video game adaptation to ever air.

Anime Feminist

Jan 12, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Finding the Good in Bad Media or, a treatise on Interspecies Reviewers by Mash Whitehouse

Mash Whitehouse is a transwoman who never updates her blog at mashforxp.com and has written several tabletop RPG books. She can also be found refusing to say anything…

Okazu

Jan 31, 2024 • Subscribe

Interspecies Reviewers

Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2023 Programme

In Montreal July 20 to Aug. 9.

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Jul 7, 2023 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021) [Fantasia Film festival]

“A great animation film that offers an emotional and moving celebration of the strength of the bond between a daughter and a mother.”

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Aug 22, 2021 • Subscribe

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Seobok (서복, Lee Yong-ju, 2021) [Fantasia 2021]

A terminally ill former government agent reckons with mortality while bonding with a clone birthed to cure humanity’s ills in Lee Yong-ju’s high concept thriller

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Aug 11, 2021 • Subscribe

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Shin Kamer Rider (2023) review [Fantasia Fest 2023]

Anno delivers an action-hero experience that is both incredibly fun and emotionally touching.

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Jul 26, 2023 • Subscribe

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Fantasia Film Festival: 7 Films not to miss.

This year, we, once again, explored the wide selection of films screening at the festival to select some films that we, psychocinematography, duly recommend to the audiences.

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Jul 26, 2021 • Subscribe

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Fantasia Confirms Second Wave of Titles for 2022

Runs in Montreal, Canada, July 14 to Aug. 3.

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Jun 13, 2022 • Subscribe

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Follow The Light (2021) review [Fantasia Festival 2021]

The narrative might not offer anything new at a thematical level, but stands out due to his refusal to spell things out and, instead, imply certain subjective truths…

psycho-cinematography

Aug 3, 2021 • Subscribe

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Fantasia Confirms First Wave of Titles for 2023

Runs in Montreal July 20 to Aug. 9

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May 11, 2023 • Subscribe

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