Disney’s 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, was born at a Mexican restaurant. During lunch in 1996, it was there that producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk Wise and...
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire — Twenty Years, and It’s Still One of Disney’s Most Unusual Films
Preface: I was going to post this sometime in June, when the movie would actually hit its twentieth anniversary. However, I feel like my posts have been getting…


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The news of Matsumoto Leiji’s death shocked me. While the passing of an 85-year-old shouldn’t be too surprising, it still makes me contemplate so many things. The number…


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First Look: Tearmoon Empire
Tearmoon Empire tells the story of a selfish, rich princess who is jailed and executed by a revolution at the age of 20. She’s then sent back in…
Moving Heaven and Earth – A look back at Castle in the Sky
While Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind may be the first original film project cited in Miyazaki’s canon, the honor of being the first true Studio Ghibi…
A Look Back at the 2010’s Part 1: Creators and Franchises
When I originally was thinking about doing this, I didn’t want to create yet another list of shows from the 2010’s that people loved. All for a wide…


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I know I said I probably wouldn’t ever cover western animation again, but this is an exception I have to make. A while back, I found an interesting…


A Thankless Passion: Look Back
Why is it that we create art? Certainly not for the adulation of the crowd; for beyond the theoretically accommodating audience of your close family and friends, there…


A LOOK BACK ON 2024
Hello friends! I was supposed to finish the recap I mentioned last Friday yesterday, but oh well. I wanted to reflect on the partly tumultuous but mostly whatever…


A look at Lackadaisy
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This Week in Anime - A Look Back at Tatsuki Fujimoto Of The Prophecy
Director Kiyotaka Oshiyama will adapt Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back manga into an anime film this year, so there's no better time for review the inimitable creators' other one-shots.


So, I’m a Fujoshi: A Look Back at My Growth Within the Boys Love Fandom
Growth is a normal part of life. I am not the same person I was a year ago, a week ago, or even yesterday. Everybody goes through changes…


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A Look Back on the Armored Core Series
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Summer 2024 Anime Week 7: A Look Back at Winter & Spring 2024
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Due to the sudden appearance of the seductive Succubi, the Academy begins to collapse due to the influence of the Dream World, becoming a dream-like setting where fantastic…
A First Look at YashaHime
For a brief moment in the early 2000s, Rumiko Takashashi’s InuYasha was the shonen franchise in America. It was a constant presence on cable television, where it anchored…


A look at HoloCure 0.7
Even with the world on fire, there was at least one thing I was looking forward to this month: the release of the 0.7 update to the free…


A Look-See at Azuki
New digital manga service Azuki is out, and Krystallina checks out the web, iOS, and Android apps in this week's Please Save My Money.


A Look At – Re;Lord
This is a story where demons lived among the denizens of the world. And it’s the demon realm that was about to face an unprecented crisis when three…
A Look At – Shuusaku – The Original DDLC?
Following a chance encounter with Mr Kato, the caretaker of a prestigious dormitory of the all girls Shukusei Music Academy, Shuusaku, a letch derived of morality, has infiltrated…


Tearmoon Empire: Saving the Nation One Coincidence at a Time
Enter in the conquerer! Or…not. Off with her head! Yeah. That’s more like it. In this anime re-imagining of Marie Antoinette, the story gives “Marie”, or, in those…


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Look Back (ルックバック)
Today’s review was inspired by a combination of two very different things. Various folks having mentioned this book in Yuri-friendly spaces online and, by complete coincidence, the fantastic…


An Objective* and Comprehensive** Look Back at the 2022 Anime Year
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A Look At “Eroko-san on the Attack”
AstroNerdBoy takes a look at the manga series, Eroko-san on the Attack, spun off from Henjo - The Strange Female High-Schooler Amaguri Senko.


A Quick Look At The Notable Blumhouse Productions
I’m not a big fan of going to the cinema and much prefer watching films from the comfort of my own home. However, I’d be lying if I…


A Look at the Cliffhanger LaserDisc Arcade Game
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A Look at Shonen Battle Protagonists
This post has really been something that I’ve only had the thought processes to think about and write recently. You know, despite the fact that I’ve been a…


A Look at Japan’s Jomon Period
The Jomon Period is the era before writing that extends from the late Pleistocene to 410 BCE. Little is known about the religious and daily life of the…


A look at Kizuna no Allele
Not a “currently watching” this time as it usually would be for a running anime, no, and for a reason. I just remembered that I’d planned to check…
A Look At – NTRPG2 – “Holding On”
Mars lives a peaceful everyday life in his quiet village. Fascinated by the nearby ruins, he’s determined to unlock its secrets. Accidentally undoing a magic seal, Mars and…
Concrete Revolutio: A Look at Heroism
At this moment, I don’t think any of you would be surprised to hear that my brain has two different sides on how I feel like I can…
2016: Don't Look Back
We are not doing an annual look back piece this year, because nothing really happened in Japan. But maybe that is what makes Japan so great right now.


Film Review: Look Back
Look Back reorients the coming-of-age story in a subtle, yet profound way, redefining what it is that propels the human heart from childishness to maturity. While it hits…


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2016: Don't Look Back
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MAPPA: A look at a modern anime studio
Written by Saumar Praan Saikia MAPPA (Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association) is a Japanese animation studio founded in the year 2011. It was founded by Masao Maruyama, who…
A Look At – Nangoku Dominion – I’m a Survivor
You play as Aloha, a young man with amnesia who is stranded on a volcanic tropical island with nine other people (six girls and three men), and the…
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As we come to the end of 2013, it’s time to look back on the year. Here’s a post dedicated to looking at some of the exceptional 2D…