Compared to his contemporaries, Keiichi Hara's anime films are often overlooked. Kevin Cormack shares why its time to correct that mistake.
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Five years after its UK home video debut, Anime Limited offers a new edition of Miss Hokusai, now with an English dub.
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Mirai Days Is More Precure than Precure
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How RahXephon is more like Gundam than Eva
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