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The third and fourth episodes of the second season of My Dress-Up Darling (aka. Ep. 15-16) continues and builds upon the plot of the previous episode in a big way. Namely, in how cosplay can clash heavily with gender roles in a highly conservative society. Fortunately, this story is about how the
Things Like This comes to digital platforms today and fans can enjoy their new favorite romantic comedy at home. Max Talisman’s latest film stars the writer and director opposite Joe Pollari. When chance brings a struggling writer and a talent agency assistant together, could this be the chance at
Mechanical Marie is one odd love story. The creator/mangaka Aki Akimoto has written quite a unique romantic comedy manga with this story of a girl pretending to be a robot maid for a misanthropic young heir. It's a story that has become surprisingly popular despite the manga series being only six
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There is something about Hollywood’s golden age. Many of the films capture the perfect balance of humor, heartbreak, and humanity. This was a time before MPAA ratings. That means every film should reach as wide of an audience as possible. Billy Wilder's 1960 masterpiece The Apartment (watch the
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Astro Note Ep. 11 makes us think that this episode is going to be the final episode before a tearful goodbye. Granted, the plot might still turn out to be that kind of a plot. However, before that point, the story needs to have everything happen all at once, and right at the last moment to boot.
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Astro Note Ep. 10 is another complex episode featuring multiple, intersecting plolines. This time, the idol Terurun is the star of the show, along with some surprising new chefs for Takumi to train. All with the sci-fi plot in the background slowly coming to a head to boot. Astro Note Ep. 10:
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political
Sasaki and Peeps brings us one big magical SNAFU in Ep. 14 "Death Games and Demons", complete with a bloody fight and civilian deaths. As you might imagine, this is as huge a problem as the title suggests. And yet, it still falls short of a true action-packed episode due to the lack of action
Who could've guessed that a film about a stinky fisherwoman and a wicker husband would end up being one of the most romantic movies of the year? For all its vulgarity and absurdity, Wicker weaves a surprisingly sincere, shockingly sweet fable of against-all-odds love and a dismantling critique of
