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The Childe (귀공자, Park Hoon-jung, 2023) [Fantasia 2023]

A boxer finds himself in a precarious position after travelling to Korea in search of the father who abandoned him in Park Hoon-jung’s bloody thriller.

Windows on Worlds

Aug 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Night in Paradise (낙원의 밤, Park Hoon-jung, 2020)

A fugitive gangster encounters a terminally ill young woman in idyllic Jeju in Park Hoon-jung’s melancholy gangster noir.

Windows on Worlds

Feb 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Next Sohee (다음 소희, July Jung, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A policewoman investigating the suicide of a teenage girl uncovers a dark web of corporate exploitation in July Jung’s hard hitting drama.

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Aug 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Tinker Ticker (들개, Kim Jung-hoon, 2013)

A jaded young man finds himself torn between continuing to fight the system and a total capitulation to it in Kim Jung-hoon’s explosive debut feature.

Windows on Worlds

Nov 26, 2023 • Subscribe

Seire (세이레, Park Kang, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A new father finds himself haunted by paternal anxiety and old transgressions in Park Kang’s eerie folk horror.

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Sep 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

The Killer (더 킬러: 죽어도 되는 아이, Choi Jae-hoon, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A cynical hitman stumbles on a dark conspiracy when the teenager he’s supposed to be babysitting is kidnapped in Choi Jae-hoon’s retro action thriller.

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Aug 8, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Collectors (도굴, Park Jung-bae, 2020)

An intrepid tomb raider becomes embroiled in an elaborate plot to steal a precious sword from a tomb in Gangnam in Park’s hugely enjoyable crime caper

Windows on Worlds

Nov 10, 2021 • Subscribe

The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (다섯 번째 흉추, Park Sye-young, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A mouldy mattress gradually becomes sentient while traversing vistas of human loneliness in Park Sye-young’s experimental feature.

Windows on Worlds

Sep 12, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Devils (악마들, Kim Jae-hoon, 2023) [Fantasia 2023]

A detective consumed by thoughts of vengeance suddenly wakes up in the body of the serial killer he’s hunting in Kim Jae-hoon’s twisty thriller.

Windows on Worlds

Jul 31, 2023 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Fantasia Film Fest 2022: Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún

WIT Studio brings this intriguingly abstract world, about a man finding small joys with his ward, to life with resplendent animation.

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Jul 17, 2022 • Subscribe

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Mother Land (엄마의 땅: 그리샤와 숲의 주인, Park Jae-beom, 2022) [Fantasia 2023]

A little girl becomes the spiritual defender of her traditional culture in her quest to cure her mother’s mysterious illness in Park Jae-beom’s stop motion fairytale.

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Aug 16, 2023 • Subscribe

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Hunt (헌트, Lee Jung-jae, 2022)

Two men circle each other in search of an elusive double agent in Lee Jung-jae’s intensely paranoid political thriller.

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Nov 1, 2022 • Subscribe

Not in This World (이 세상에 없는, Park Jung-bum, 2019)

A dejected young woman finds a kindred soul in a forest-dwelling holy fool but is eventually pushed towards the dark side in Park Jung-bum’s epic of human misery

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Nov 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Alienoid (외계+인 1부, Choi Dong-hoon, 2022)

Alien cyborgs and feudal magicians battle cosmic disorder in the opening instalment of Choi Dong-hoon’s epic science fiction fantasy.

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Aug 26, 2022 • Subscribe

The Girl From the Other Side (とつくにの少女, Yutaro Kubo & Satomi Maiya, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A kindly exile and lonely little girl find mutual salvation in Yutaro Kubo & Satomi Maiya’s beautifully animated fairytale.

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Aug 1, 2022 • Subscribe

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Brave Citizen (용감한 시민, Park Jin-pyo, 2023) [Fantasia 2024]

A former boxer turned schoolteacher rediscovers the strength to fight back when faced with unchallenged bullies in Park Jin-pyo’s cathartic dramedy.

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Aug 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

2022 Anime Retrospective (Part 2)

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Jan 24, 2023 • Subscribe

In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki, Lycoris Recoil

2022 in Review: Part 2

This is Part II of the 2022 year-in-review. Let’s finish up 2022 and look forward to 2023! Seven Seas Workers Make Waves Negotiations started in October, and a…

TheOASG

Dec 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Mother’s Place (엄마의 자리, Ryu Hee-jung, 2022) 

A young woman finds herself questioning the nature of family when her parents die suddenly but the relatives won’t let them be buried together in Ryu Hee-jung’s raw…

Windows on Worlds

Sep 20, 2022 • Subscribe

AniTAY’s Top Anime of 2022: Part One

If I could sum up 2022 in how it was for anime, it’d be “… hm”.

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Jan 23, 2023 • Subscribe

Convenience Story (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival 2022]

Miki delivers a great psychological mystery narrative, yet it might not be for everyone.

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Aug 6, 2022 • Subscribe

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The Fish Tale (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

A very heart-warming and touching narrative that shows that a subject does not necessarily need to make use of the neurotic solution to inscribe himself within the societal…

psycho-cinematography

Jul 31, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Elfen Lied – 02 – One Or the Other

Things would have been so much easier—and far less bloodily—if Kouta hadn’t gotten angry and scared Nyu off. Instead, Bando and his tactical team arrive, and Bando is not…

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Mar 30, 2020 • Subscribe

Fanart Friday: Kiki’s Revenge and Mary (the Other Witch)

I revisited these lovely illustrations recently, which Popman3580 first posted around the time that Mary and the Witch’s Flower, now a kind of forgotten movie, came out—and it…

Beneath the Tangles

Dec 31, 2021 • Subscribe

Kiki's Delivery Service

Izetta: The Last Witch Episodes 1 and 2: A Nazi by Any Other Name…

Izetta: The Last Witch Episode 1 and 2: Finé, trapped by Germanians on a train, discovered an unlikely ally. Izetta nearly saves her princess.

Crow's World of Anime

Apr 27, 2021 • Subscribe

Izetta: The Last Witch

Winter 2022 in Review Part 2

Most of the Winter 2022 times have now concluded, so it’s time for the second part of the season-ending wrap-up. The first part featured a review of In…

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Mar 31, 2022 • Subscribe

In the Land of Leadale

2022 Year in Review - Part 2

Part 2 of our 2022 year in review, in which we cover series that began in or near last year, as well as a commemoration of series we…

Manga Musings

Feb 16, 2023 • Subscribe

2022 Manga Musings Awards - Part 2

Part 2 of our Manga Musings "Musie" Awards where we muse on the best and worst manga of 2022.Join us on the Manga Musing Patreon for early access…

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Mar 2, 2023 • Subscribe

Gyeong-ah’s Daughter (경아의 딸, Kim Jung-eun, 2022)

The fractured relationship between mother and daughter is further strained when the younger woman becomes the victim of revenge porn in Kim Jung-eun’s quietly enraged social drama.

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Nov 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Convenience Story (コンビニエンス・ストーリー, Satoshi Miki, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A blocked writer finds himself stranded in an uncanny reality in Satoshi Miki’s surreal sci-fi adventure.

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Aug 3, 2022 • Subscribe

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My Small Land (マイスモールランド, Emma Kawawada, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A young woman’s life is destabilised when her father’s asylum claim is rejected in Emma Kawada’s empathetic debut feature.

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Jul 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

One Shots / “That’s Just Prime, Part 2”

Two years ago, I made this One Shots entry called “That’s Just Prime” to quickly account for the numerous Voyager class Optimus Prime figures being released at that…

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Jun 13, 2022 • Subscribe

The Video Games I Played in 2022 (Part 2)

The second part of my 2022 completed games discussion list includes multiple Resident Evil games, Nioh and God of War Ragnarok and more!

The Normanic Vault

Jan 1, 2023 • Subscribe

Ragnarok the Animation

Predicting the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2022 Nominations – part 2

A second day of predicting Crunchyroll Anime Awards nominations and winners. Spoiler warning: Back Arrow will continue getting nominated for nothing despite the fact it should win everything.…

Day with the Cart Driver

Dec 20, 2021 • Subscribe

BACK ARROW

The Spring 2022 AniTAY Sequel Guide (Part 2, The Sequel)

Y’all know the drill, this is simply the second part of our seasonal Sequel Guide. Part one can be found here! In this entry, we began to…

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Apr 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Chained Echoes: One of 2022’s Best JRPGs (other than Xenoblade 3)

With CrossCode beat and Sea of Stars not yet ready, it’s natural to experience pixel-art JRPG withdrawal (and I probably won’t live to see Secrets of Grindea be…

Weeb Revues

Jun 3, 2023 • Subscribe

Shin-Ultraman (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

Higuchi and Anno deliver an impressive love letter to their childhood, yet their devoted love, which is sensible in every aspect of the narrative, might not be able…

psycho-cinematography

Jul 28, 2022 • Subscribe

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Shari (シャリ, Nao Yoshigai, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A red monster roams the landscape smearing its blood wherever it goes in Nao Yoshigai’s surreal documentary hybrid.

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Sep 17, 2022 • Subscribe

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My Broken Mariko (2022) [Fantasia Film Festival]

Tanada offers a compelling exploration of the emotional turmoil a female subject caused by the sudden death of someone important.

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Aug 12, 2022 • Subscribe

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The Swordsman (검객, Choi Jae-hoon, 2020)

A master swordsman is dragged back into the world of courtly intrigue years after renouncing the code of violence when his daughter is taken by slavers in Choi’s…

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Mar 4, 2021 • Subscribe

December 2022 Mandarake Order Unboxing Part 2

On Saturday & Sunday, January 7-8, 2003, I’ll have a dealer table and present two anime panels at the St. Pete Comic Con in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.…

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Dec 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Summer 2022 Anime in Review (Part 2)

Here we are, the follow up to the first part. There, you can read that post by following the link provided. This post will be a lot shorter…

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Oct 22, 2022 • Subscribe

Fast & Feel Love (เร็วโหด..เหมือนโกรธเธอ, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

An obsessive sports stacker is plunged into a delayed adulthood when his long term girlfriend suddenly leaves in Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s charming post-modern comedy.

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Aug 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Special Delivery (특송, Park Dae-min, 2022)

A jaded delivery driver’s finely tuned existence is upended when she’s forced on the run with the young son of a wanted man in Park Dae-min’s high octane…

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May 7, 2022 • Subscribe

The Fish Tale (さかなのこ, Shuichi Okita, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

The infinite enthusiasm of a fish obsessive gradually brightens the world around them in Shuichi Okita’s charming portrait of an eccentric.

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Jul 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

Digicast 10: Just One George (Tamers Part 2)

Buggy, Tom, Chris, and Maddy finish up Tamers by asking the hard-hitting questions, like “how does one get drunk on milkshakes?” and “why does Ryo even exist?” Tom…

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May 22, 2017 • Subscribe

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Season One) – Part 2

Having survived on the Demon Continent, Rudeus and Eris are keen to get home, but that’s not going to be easy, even with Ruijerd to company them. Even…

The Otaku Author

Dec 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation