Whoever Steals This Book is a very new anime film that you may not have heard of, but it's one that looks like it deserves much attention indeed. It's the anime adaptation of the 2020 novel of the same name by Nowaki Fukamidori, which also later received a manga adaptation in 2021. The entire
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TRIGUN STARGAZE has Vash head back Home to a puppet show with Jessica in Ep. 3 "Memento Mori". Alas, this is not the fun kind of puppet show. This is the kind of puppet show that involves quite a bit of gun fu and martial arts, and all on the part of a very unwilling audience to boot. TRIGUN
Fans of the classic romance manga and anime Fruits Basket will readily recall the name Kyoko Honda. As the late mother of series protagonist Tohru Honda, she was a fascinating posthumous character with a most colorful past as an ex-gang member. Alas, we only get to see bits and pieces of that past
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Journal with Witch starts off Asa's high school life (and exacerbates Makio's parenting life) with a serious case of the blues in Ep. 4 "Cower". As you might imagine, it all has to do with a whole lot of unresolved grief Asa has for her recently deceased parents. Alas, this episode shows her still
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Ep. 9 to Ep. 13 of May I Ask for One Final Thing? confirm that this action-packed anime is on the lighter and more comedic side in terms of story. Even when things are getting genuinely dire and horrific, Scarlet doesn't lose sight of herself. Specifically: she never loses her love of beating the
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Journal with Witch continues the slice of life drama with quite a bit of graduation pain in Ep. 3 "Discard". All stemming from some unresolved grief over the death of Asa's parents. It's a problem that gets further compounded even before the graduation woes due to a visit to Asa's old (and now
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Journal With Witch continues Makio's adventures in taking care of her niece Asa in Ep. 2 "Wrap", and with a growing cast of characters too. Mostly in the form of Makio's friends and acquaintances, but with a hint that Asa has her own friends that will soon be introduced as well. All in preparation
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TRIGUN STARGAZE continues its second and final season with Ep. 2 "Unforgiven" by showing the consequences of the sins of the past. Specifically: the sins of Vash's past during the events involving the city of JuLai/July. Because you know, it's a bit hard to blow up a city without killing a lot of
I remember seeing the trailer for The Dog Stars and having my eyes roll back in my head. Do we really need more post-apocalyptic stories when we're living in a real life apocalypse? Do we need another movie that has an analog for COVID-19 and the aftermath that had on our own society. Well,
We're in the era of liminal spaces, folks. Movies like Skinamarink, Backrooms, and Exit 8 have all proven that audiences, especially younger audiences, can't get enough of them. it Ends brings us really two liminal spaces in one movie. The film tells the story of four friends who are getting
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia both kicks up the action and ramps up the stakes with a very poisonous plotline in Ep. 9 "Tengri". In fact, this is the most amount of bloody action we've seen in this anime in a while. However, in terms of story, it still takes second fiddle to the very sudden
