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Review: Ghost Stories (2000)
Read more: Review: Ghost Stories (2000)Look, I wasn’t planning on doing monthly anime reviews. Truth be told, I kind of hate anime overall. Whether it be shōnen, shōjo, or whatever—I will never be able to get over the standard tropes like “magical girl” transformation sequences, “harems”, or the closely related (not to mention, hypersexualized) fanservice that gushes from every…
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Listen Up! – Top 5 Favorite Podcasts
Read more: Listen Up! – Top 5 Favorite PodcastsErnest Hemingway once said, “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” This quote puzzled me initially, because I reasoned that sound is an ever-present element of everyday life, thus listening is inescapable for all of us. Having thought about it some more, however, I…
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#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly: Why Describing A Plot Badly Might Make A Good Movie
Read more: #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly: Why Describing A Plot Badly Might Make A Good MovieA meme did the virtual rounds a couple of months ago, called “explain a film plot badly”. It asked internet users to take a well-known and universally loved movie, and write down the plot as horrible and in the most misunderstood way possible (think Harry Potter but with Voldemort as the hero). Not to…
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By Unpopular Demand: a Review of Alfred Jodocus Kwak (1989)
Read more: By Unpopular Demand: a Review of Alfred Jodocus Kwak (1989)Here it is: your hip, new, anime review. And yes, while Alfred Jodocus Kwak isn’t all that hip or new, it does technically qualify as an anime. There’s your little tidbit for the day. This, among other facts, is part of the interesting history behind this show (which I will abbreviate to AJK for convenience’s…
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On the best souvenir you can give your friends
Read more: On the best souvenir you can give your friendsIt was shortly after one of my best friends had left for America when I realized that collecting souvenirs for all my friends was going to get slightly more complicated than it used to be, because shipping to and from America is quite expensive. She went to New York at the end of May…




