Crunchyroll’s season of love is in full effect. Hana-Kimi, We are Polar Opposites and Hell’s Paradise were the focus during the Spring-flavored press day. That Hashtag Show got to speak with a ton of voice talent! We sat down with stars like: Hana-Kimi (Katelyn Barr, Wyatt Baker, Dallas Reid)
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Hana-Kimi is in some ways a typical romance anime one might find in a shojo manga. However, Ep. 1 shows that in many other ways, this is definitely not a traditional romance story. Not when the main character is a girl who has disguised herself as a boy in order to pursue her male love interest,
The name Hana-Kimi will be very familiar to manga fans who grew up in the 1990's and early 2000's. After all, that gender-bending romance manga by Hisaya Nakajo made its debut and run in that era. Not only that, but it ended up becoming quite a success story after reaching 23 volumes. Alas, fans
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film is a dense exploration of a very specific part of Thomas Mann’s life and Germany’s history. Winning Best Picture at Cannes and chosen as Poland’s submission for Best International Film, the film expects a certain level of historical and geographic knowledge
