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Comic Update: 金曜日の天使

Original Post Was surprised that so many people liked the last comic. Well sorry guys! I’M GONNA RUN THIS SHIT INTO THE GROUND. (Don’t worry, there’s only one…

An Archive of Mistakes of Youth: The Blog

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Interview with Mamoru Oshii on Angel's Egg

If you watched the Mamoru Oshii TIFF interview , you probably were very curious to hear his dry and discouraging comments on Angel's Eg...

Nihon Cine Art

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Angel's Egg, Ghost in the Shell

Angel’s Egg

Mamoru Oshii at his most introspective

Space Kaleidoscope

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Gatchaman

Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg Cinema Screening on July 27

Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg will be screening on July 27 at 7 pm at The Place theatre in Bedford. The screening is part of Film Feels Curious, a…

Japan Curiosity

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Ghost in the Shell

The Asian Angel (アジアの天使, Yuya Ishii, 2021)

The lonely souls of Japan and Korea are brought together by angelic intervention in Yuya Ishii’s wistful drama

Windows on Worlds

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MAMORU OSHII book review [nonfiction] Part 47, ANGEL'S EGG GUIDEBOOK

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Angel's Egg, Lupin III

Angel Egg (1985)

Type: Brilliant! Synopsis: I have absolutely no idea what’s going on. Pros: Angel Egg is an incredibly beautiful and though provoking anime film. It was created by Mamoru…

Gentlemanotoku's Anime Circle

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Ghost in the Shell

MAMORU OSHII book review [nonfiction] Part 44, MAMORU OSHII IN POLAND

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 22, ANGEL'S EGG (ANIMAGE BUNKO)

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Angel's Egg

The Opaque Masterpiece: Angel’s Egg

An egg. A man. A girl. An empty city of grand, gothic buildings populated by shadows hunting the shade of some great fish. Skeletons of massive beasts. A

Anime Herald

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MAMORU OSHII book review: INDEX

nonfiction filmography and career My Dear, Hayao Miyazaki 1984 Roman Album PERSONA 1996 Complete Works of Mamoru Oshii 1996 My Dear, Mamoru Oshii 1998 INNOCENCE Material Book 2004…

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Angel's Egg, Ghost in the Shell, Giant Killing, Lupin III, Tachiguishi Retsuden

#OshiiOct Mamoru Oshii October Announcement

So, I’ve been hinting at this all week with my subtly called not Mamoru Oshii week. You know, because I am just so clever like that apparently. So…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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Mabataki (まばたき)

Mabataki (まばたき) is a collection of short stories by Battan, creator of Run Away With Me, Girl. This is another manga I picked up while in Japan (I…

Okazu

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#OshiiOct Angel’s Egg – You Try Explaining This

Following the fashion presented in They Were 11, this is Scott’s Adventures in watching something that isn’t available in any form to support the original creators. This one…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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They Were 11

Fallen Angels (墮落天使, Wong Kar Wai, 1995)

Lovelorn denizens of a purgatorial Hong Kong fail long to connect in a world of alienation in Wong Kar Wai’s chronicle of pre-Millennial loneliness.

Windows on Worlds

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The Language of Job Hunting - How to Japanese - August 2022

How to Japanese

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Drunken Angel (酔いどれ天使, Akira Kurosawa, 1948)

A gruff yet well intentioned doctor does his best to cure the ills of post-war Japan in a rundown slum on the edge of a fetid swamp in…

Windows on Worlds

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 14, SERAPHIM

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Harmony, Lupin III

A Philosophical Talk with Legendary Director Mamoru Oshii

“Part of what artists do has to withstand the test of time. I suppose you could call it 'universality.' People who live by entertainment generally live in the…

Anime News Network - Views

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MAMORU OSHII book review [nonfiction] Part 40, 1968

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Angel's Egg

Episode #86 (S11E6) – Drunken Angel [酔いどれ天使] (1948)

Jamie Ryder, author and proprietor of Yamato Magazine, stops by the show to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s gangster classic, Drunken Angel! Notable for being the first of Kurosawa and…

Japan On Film

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Holy Week 2021 [Arise]: Arising from Angel’s Egg Deluge

What does it mean to truly arise from the tomb, from everything the tomb implies? That is, death not only (only!) of the body, but of certainties, of…

Beneath the Tangles

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Angel's Egg

Fire Festival (火まつり, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1985)

A proud mountain man goes to great lengths to hold back the tides of modernity in Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s poetic fable

Windows on Worlds

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 17, GIANT KILLING

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Giant Killing

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 11, RAINY DOGS

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Shigeru, Kurenai

Interview: A Philosophical Talk with Legendary Director Mamoru Oshii

Back when Anime Now! was on its last legs, I got to interview acclaimed Ghost In The Shell director Mamoru Oshii. Sadly, that interview never had the chance…

Biggest In Japan

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Ghost in the Shell

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 04, PANZER COP

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 18, ZOMBIE DIARY

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 10, TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN

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Tachiguishi Retsuden

MAMORU OSHII book review [extra] A FLEDGING PRODUCER'S DIARY

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Urusei Yatsura, Tomorrow's Joe

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 05, DRAGON RETRIEVER

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 20, GARM WARS

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 21, YUBAE SAKUSEN

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Angel's Egg, Hundred, Shigeru

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 12, PAX JAPONICA

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Space Battleship Yamato

The Many Faces of Chika またの日の知華 (2005) Dir: Kazuo Hara, Producer/Writer: Sachiko Kobayashi

The Many Faces of Chika またの日の知華 (2005) Dir: Kazuo Hara, Producer/Writer: Sachiko Kobayashi

Genkinahito

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Interview with Mamoru Oshii on Urusei Yatsura 2 - Beautiful Dreamer

( Urusei Yatsura 2 Byutifuru Dorima, 1984 )   By Masumi Homma and “John” of Central Park Media [Thanks UncleChuckTH for…

Nihon Cine Art

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Idea, Urusei Yatsura, Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell. Directed by Mamoru Oshii. Created by...

Ghost in the Shell. Directed by Mamoru Oshii. Created by Production I.G. Ghost in the Shell (DVD)

AnimeBackgrounds

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Ghost in the Shell

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 15, KERBEROS PANZER JÄGER

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Director Mamoru Oshii Reflects on His Anime Classic Beautiful Dreamer

"In a way, it's a movie that's made up of 'wishes.' It's made up of different people's desires."

Anime News Network - Views

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 19, ZOMBIE DIARY 2

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The Sky Crawlers

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 06, PATLABOR TOKYO WAR

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Mobile Police Patlabor

MAMORU OSHII analysis: WHAT ARE THE LYRICS OF UTAI ABOUT?

I think that the lyrics of this iconic anime song tend to be misunderstood. Here are my thoughts on the lyrics. The original lyrics 吾が舞へば麗し女 酔ひにけり 吾が舞へば照る月 響むなり…

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veil

MAMORU OSHII book review [nonfiction] Part 43, AVALON MAKING BOOK

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Wizardry

MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 09, AVALON GREY LADY

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傘の下、ふたり

Author & Artist: ぢゅん子 (Junko)Released March 2012 by Kaiohsha’s Gush ComicsGenre: Drama, Romance

Grimm Reads

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Anime Review #54: Angel’s Egg (Or, WTH IS THIS: The Movie)

A most blessed Easter to my regular readers and followers! Once again we commemorate the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ and his triumph over death. Through him,…

The Traditional Catholic Weeb

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Illusion Acts Like Magic / 幻惑の死と使途

Illusion Acts Like Magic begins with Moe meeting her friend Tomoe Minosawa and going to a magic show. Saikawa was supposed to come as well ...

Bad Player's Good Reviews

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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 07, PANZER COP PART 2

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