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Make Believe Mailer #127: Perfume (2014)
Allow A Little Indulgence For A Pivotal Moment In My Career
Make Believe Mailer #129: "Turning Up"
Five years since the musical end of Heisei...and beginning of Reiwa
Make Believe Mailer #123: Jock Rock
The Action Isn't Just On The Diamond!
Make Believe Mailer #122: Promotion And Catharsis
"Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night" And "Girls Band Cry"
Make Believe Mailer #121: Reol 2015 Interview
Hints Of Where J-pop Would Go
Make Believe Mailer #126: What Was FAKY?
The Group's Role In Modern J-pop History
Make Believe Mailer #128: Toshiyuki Nishida Musical Sampler
The Actor, Who Died Last Week, Found Himself Connected To Many Pop Institutions
Make Believe Mailer #125: Bandcamp Friday Special September 2024
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Make Believe Mailer #131: An Assortment Of Thoughts On NewJeans In Japan
Featuring Summer Sonic, The Powerpuff Girls, And "Plastic Love"
A Personal Look Back at Matsumoto Leiji
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…
Make Believe Bonus: Hiromi Go At Belluna Dome
Somehow, my second time seeing Hiromi Go perform after a baseball game
Make Believe Bonus: Technique At Fourth Floor II
Underground Nostalgia
Make Believe Bonus: TWICE Treats At Family Mart
SELL THE SOCKS IN BIGGER SIZES!
A Look Back At Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”
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…
Make Believe Bonus: Utada Hikaru At Yoyogi National Gymnasium
What Makes Utada Utada
Make Believe Mailer #124: Tuned In (Music Magazine's Best 100 J-pop Songs Of The 2010s)
A Weird Decade, For The Better
Employees at Seven Seas Look to Make Waves
Krystallina takes a look at something potentially historic in the manga/light novel industry space as Seven Seas workers aim to unionize.
Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Swindlers
The Show And The Soundtrack
Make Believe Bonus: The Church
I Broke A Glass Here Accidentally So I'll Probably Never Go Back...But You Should!
A look at Lackadaisy
Hey, you like me putting this one into the anime category? Well very strictly speaking it is, since the word anime in Japanese applies to our cartoons here…
Look Back
Well, we made it through another year. And, in a bit less than two months, Animétudes will celebrate its second anniversary. So, as I did last year, I…
medorē #28 – A Look Back at My First J-Music Playlist
featuring Ohashi Trio, Suchmos, WANIMA (and more!)
Year in Review: A Look Back at 2021 on Blerdy Otome
It’s crazy to think that 2021 is almost over, it kind of feels like this year just started and now 2022 is right around the corner. This year…
A Look At “The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy” Manga
AstroNerdBoy takes a look at the web manga"The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy", where a human apothecary saves an abused elf.
Make Believe Mailer 120: You Aughts To Know (Music Magazine's Best 100 J-pop Songs Of The 2000s)
Aiming For Cohesion When Everything Is Starting To Crack
Make Believe Bonus: A Night Out, In One Hour
Extended Flo Rida Remix...Please, I Have A Family
a LOOK BACK into Fujimoto's mind
! SPOILERS FOR ALL OF LOOK BACK ! Look Back by Fujimoto is probably my favourite work of his - and it begs the question "Why do you draw?".…
Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Garden Theater
Come For Malls, Stay For Emotionally Raw Encores
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CeeLo Green...Is The War Machine
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Chaos In Front Of The Family Mart
Make Believe Bonus: K-Arena Yokohama
A New Landmark For Live Music
Make Believe Bonus: NHK Broadcast Center
Watching The Kohaku Announcement Spectacle In Person
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…
Summer 2024 Anime Week 7: A Look Back at Winter & Spring 2024
August 17th, 2024 We’re past the halfway point for this Summer season! Usually, this is around when I would write my mid-season thoughts on all of the shows…
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-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 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 – Succubus Academia
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 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…
Episode 130, "Back And In Greater Numbers"
On this episode of The One Piece Podcast we celebrate the return of One Piece manga from its month-long self-imposed hiatus! We have Steve, Jason, The Dude, Funkatron,…
Episode 130, "Back And In Greater Numbers"
On this episode of The One Piece Podcast we celebrate the return of One Piece manga from its month-long self-imposed hiatus! We have Steve, Jason, The Dude, Funkatron,…
First Look: Let’s Make a Mug Too
Himeno Toyokawa’s family run a small café in the city of Tajimi, and she’s eager to encourage her new classmates to visit as she introduces herself on the…
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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…
Look Back GN
From the creator of Chainsaw Man comes a story about the passion of artists and the tragedies that shape our life.
Look Back Dub!
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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…
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.