Lately I’ve been staying at home a lot. Oh who am I kidding, I’ve always been staying at home a lot… And I figured this was a prime opportunity for some quality time with my consoles. We don’t get to see each other enough and I would hate for us to drift apart. I was... The post East meets West – Playing Kingdom Hearts for the First Time appeared first on I drink and watch anime.
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You ask and you shall receive! Some of you guys wanted me to play ULTRAKILL on stream, so I decided to check it out for your watching pleasure…
East Meets West #10: Nichijou .vs. The Looney Tunes
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Playing Majoras Mask For The First Time
the title is pretty self explanatory.
East Meets West #25: Little Nemo .vs. Slumberland
Last November, I learned that Netflix released a live-action adaptation of Windsor McCay’s Little Nemo comics, and my first response was “What?” It seemed odd that producers would…
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East Meets West #27: Summer Wars .vs. WarGames
Before Mamoru Hosoda released Summer Wars, the concept of an “evil AI” is a trope that had been explored countless times in Western media over the past decades.…
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East Meets West #8: Konosuba .vs. South Park
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East Meets West #1: Dragon League .vs. The Mighty Ducks
In professional hockey and basketball leagues like the NHL and NBA, two conferences exist: the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference, each with their own set of teams…
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East Meets West #16: Anime Sanjushi .vs. The Three Musketeers
Wishing everyone a blessed and happy Easter on this fine Easter Monday. Christ indeed has risen from the grave, and conquered death at the same time, giving us…
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East Meets West #6: Digimon Adventure .vs. The Last Airbender
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East Meets West #9: Lucky Star .vs. Spongebob Squarepants
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East Meets West #12: Your Name .vs. 17 Again
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East Meets West: The Western/Japanese Animation Collaborations of the ‘80s
Outsourced and In Demand While anime fandom didn't truly explode in the United States until the 1990s, future fans were getting their first taste of anime
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East Meets West #2: Steins;Gate .vs. Back To The Future
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East Meets West #30: Little Witch Academia .vs. The Worst Witch
Some shows, while thematically different, can nevertheless contain elementally similar to one another. I’ve already pointed that out plenty in this series of posts: starting from the first,…
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East Meets West #26: Japanese Digimon Movies .vs. Digimon – The Movie
Ooooh, I think it’s time for another Digimon post. For this month’s East Meets West, I’m going to be doing something that I’ve never done before here (surprisingly…
East Meets West #13: Spirited Away .vs. Alice In Wonderland
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East Meets West #18: Your Lie In April .vs. Amadeus
I was only a few months into high school when I first watched the 1984 film adaptation of the Peter Schaefer’s biopic Amadeus, which chronicles the career of…
East Meets West #19: Neon Genesis Evangelion .vs. Pacific Rim
Since the advent of literature, epochs of man fighting monsters has been a popular storytelling genre. Greek legends feature the exploits of figures thwarting mythical creatures, medieval knights…
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East Meets West #5: Vatican Kiseki Chousakan .vs. Father Ted
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East Meets West #28: Mewtwo Strikes Back .vs. Detective Pikachu
For the first time in this blog, I am going to address media from the Pokemon franchise. Arguably considered the most prominent of Japan’s anime, video game and…
East Meets West #3: Boku No Hero Academia .vs. The Karate Kid
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East Meets West #17: 5 Centimeters Per Second .vs. The Great Gatsby
Many of us are familiar with the works of Makoto Shinkai, the famous Japanese director of modern hits like Your Name or Weathering With You. Throughout parts of…
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East Meets West #11: My Neighbor Totoro .vs. The Wind In The Willows
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East Meets West #21: Sonic The Hedgehog 1996 .vs. Sonic The Hedgehog 2022
Today’s comparison covers another video game film, namely that of the Sonic The Hedgehog series. Although many associate his first movie appearance to have occurred in February of…
East Meets West #23: Sword Art Online .vs. Ready Player One
Five days prior (6 November 2022) marked the start date of the events of the inaugural Sword Art Online (hereafter SAO) anime. It was on that Sunday when,…
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East Meets West #15: Boku No Hero Academia (Reprise) .vs. The Avengers Quintology
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East Meets West #14: Castle In The Sky .vs. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
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East Meets West #4: Super Mario Bros. Super Show .vs. Sonic X
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East Meets West #31: Dark Side Of Dimensions .vs. Pyramid Of Light
To my readers:The last time I posted on Monday was Easter Monday of 2022 (April 18) – coincidentally, that was also an East Meets West post! However, today…
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Godzilla: The East and West Dilemmas
I have seen this topic get a bit heated from time to time and recently it really got deep into my head. This is very much because of…
East Meets West #24: The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya .vs. It’s A Wonderful Life
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First Time Playing Death Come True
Starting my Kodaka game playthrough with, uh, this one I know basically nothing about! Start/End/Break Animations from Dwarf Fortress Music from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFA9AfikOcE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/craftsdwarf Twitter: https://twitter.com/Craftsdwarf MAL: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Craftsdwarf
East Palace, West Palace (Intro)
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East Meets West #20: Super Mario Bros (1986) .vs. Super Mario Bros (1993)
It’s been more than a year since I last discussed the Super Mario Bros. anime, sub-titled The Quest To Rescue Princess Peach. It’s a colourful, yet unassuming anime…
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East Meets West #22: Children Who Chase Lost Voices .vs. Journey To The Center Of The Earth
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Keijo!!!!!!!! (Episode 8) – The Dramatic East-West War!!!!
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TheOASG reviews the manga version of Kingdom Hearts III, where we see Sora, Donald and Goofy once again travel to various Disney worlds.
Kingdom Hearts 102 | BGE University Lecture
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Ariel was originally meant to be a Princess of Heart, but in order for this to happen she needed to be captured by Maleficent – and this meant…
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