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The denizens of a small slum on the outskirts of the modern city live largely on wilful self-delusion in Kurosawa’s first experimentation with colour.
What it means to be alive.
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What Tomo-chan Is a Girl! gets wrong and right about gender-nonconformity and sexual assault
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What Penguindrum Means to Me
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Hitogoto Desukara, Volume 3 (ヒトゴトですから!)
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Hitogoto Desukara!, Volume 2 (ヒトゴトですから!)
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What’s です desu ます masu in Japanese? (polite/formal/respectful/keigo/honorifics)
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Lily Orchard was Wrong, and Here's Why
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Lupin III vs Cat’s Eye: What It Means To Be a Thief
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What Tokyopop Still Means to Me
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Episode 725, “…And That’s What My Tattoo Means” (with @RogersBase)
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What Cyperpunk Edgerunners Gets Right!
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Guest Post – What Anime Means To Me
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Akira is Wrong. Here’s Why
One of the greatest anime movies of all time… is wrong? Or is Akira simply overrated trash? Akira is an all time classic movie, a must watch for any…
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Love, Life and Goldfish (すくってごらん, Yukinori Makabe, 2021)
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Today I ask two large questions and fail to answer them. Yup, that sounds like me. What is anime? I don't know but it does matter!
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