Koe no Katachi (English: A Silent Voice) is known from the story of a one-shot manga by Ooima Yoshitoki with only a single chapter until it adapted to a real produced manga with seven volumes and 6…
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Accepting Ourselves With the Shape of Voice
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Hana-chan and the Shape of the World's fascination with a child's curiosity and the fantastic artwork is worth reading.
Shape Up Ran
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The Loss of a Voice
Today, the passing of Tanaka Atsuko, was announced.Today, I cried.It’s a strange feeling, really…She had a voice that I heard often as a child and even more often…
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r#137 – the garden of words.
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Invaders of the Rokujouma!?, Vol. 31
By Takehaya and Poco. Released in Japan as “Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?” by HJ Bunko. Released in North America digitally by J-Novel Club. Translated by Warnis. And so I…
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In his first ever interview, manga creator Ryotaro Ueda goes into detail about the thin veil between the living and the dead, and the in-between world as Hana-chan…
r#131 – nausicaä of the valley of the wind
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r#83 – the secret world of arrietty
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You Will Hear the Voice of the Dead
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Sub Vs. Dub: The Voice of the people.
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the choice of pain | A Silent Voice
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The Dark Reality of Japanese Voice Acting
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One of the nice things about A Silent Voice is that it’s about kids growing up, and it treats the kids honestly as characters in that it lets…
Manga the Week of 5/31/23
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r#99 – lupin the 3rd: the castle of cagliostro
Let me admit that I have not watched many anime movies in my lifetime, not until recently with the popular films such as Your Name, A Silent Voice,…
r#60 – code geass: lelouch of the rebellion
I have earlier used Code Geass as an example to compare the similarities of it with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime. This time I’ll talk about the world’s worst…
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