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From the Wacky to the Wonderful: Anime You Should Watch if You Love Spy x Family
Spy x Family is undoubtedly the anime of the season. The skyrocketing popularity that the relatively fresh animanga series has garnered...
oneillej
May 13, 20226 min read
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Falling into the Trope Trap: Tomorrow, Make Me Yours - Review
*Early Access Copy Provided by NetGalley* Kaoroku Miyama's debut manga shows budding potential, though ultimately falls into a number of...
oneillej
Apr 28, 20222 min read
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Queer Excellence: Heartstopper Elevates and Embraces its Comic Origins - Season 1 Review
“Don’t let anyone make you disappear.” Netflix's adaptation of Alice Oseman's beloved web-novel, Heartstopper, is ever-bit as charming,...
oneillej
Apr 22, 20223 min read
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Love on Paper: Sasaki and Miyano - Series Review
Studio Deen's take on Shō Harasuno's manga of the same name: Sasaki and Miyano is a high-school romance that seems forgettable at...
oneillej
Mar 28, 20223 min read
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Attack on Titan's Queer-Coded Characters Carried the Franchise - Opinions
In some ways, Hajime Isayama's gruesome phenomenon broke ground for queer representation in the shōnen genre. From a canonical lesbian...
oneillej
Jan 22, 202212 min read
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The Rats, The Riches, and The Landlord: The House (2022) - Review
Netflix's original anthology film skilfully entangles terror and suspense, black comedy, and a ghibli-esque hopefulness into a deeply...
oneillej
Jan 19, 20224 min read
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Attack on Titan: Definitive Arc Ranking - Opinions
As divisive as the conclusion to Hajime Isayama's fantasy-horror epic may have been earlier last year, it is hard to deny the impact the...
oneillej
Jan 5, 202215 min read
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Magical Musical Madrigals: Encanto (2021) - Review
11 years since Walt Disney Animation Studio's landmark 50th feature Tangled, the studio's 60th effort Encanto is a vibrant musical...
oneillej
Dec 1, 20213 min read
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"Like a Scene From a Movie...": My Summer of You - Volume 1 Review
*Early access copy provided by NetGalley* Mangaka Nagisa Furuya has maintained notable popularity amongst fans of the slice-of-life and...
oneillej
Aug 31, 20212 min read
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Criminal Creature Comforts: Beastars - Season 2 Review
Months following its original airing in Japan, the long-awaited second season of Orange studio's anthropomorphic high school drama was...
oneillej
Aug 4, 20213 min read
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Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms - Review
*Early access copy provided by NetGalley* High school cheerleaders have long held a bad reputation in Western media, home to cliques of...
oneillej
Jun 28, 20212 min read
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Sea Monsters and Soulmates: Luca (2021) - Review
The second of Pixar's films to be streamlined straight to Disney+ as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Luca is a tour de...
oneillej
Jun 19, 20215 min read
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A Bloody Action Feast: Invincible (2021) - Season 1 Review
Based upon Robert Kirkman's (The Walking Dead) acclaimed comic book, Amazon Prime's gruesome superhero series Invincible has been the...
oneillej
May 25, 20214 min read
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Confronting Female Trauma: Wonder Egg Priority (2021) - Review
CloverWorks' psychological drama is a mature deconstruction of the magical girl genre, not unlike renowned anime screenwriter Gen...
oneillej
May 4, 20216 min read
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Disney's The Black Cauldron (1985) realised through the 1980s Teen Slasher Movie
Shary identifies that the Reagan Administration of the 1980s predominantly represented ‘a new notion of American conservatism’, the...
oneillej
Apr 21, 202114 min read
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Facing That Tree On The Hill: Attack on Titan Final Chapter - Review
After 11 whirlwind years leading to a globally acclaimed anime series and multiple spin-offs, Hajime Isayama's action-horror epic draws...
oneillej
Apr 9, 202111 min read
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A Gem of the Winter Season: You Should be Watching Sk8 the Infinity - Opinions
While I am most-definitely late to the party, having binged the first six episodes of Studio Bones' winter anime original, Sk8 the...
oneillej
Mar 22, 20213 min read
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Generations of Bollywood: Bombay Rose (2019) - Review
Indian theatre actress and animator Gitanjali Rao's feature film debut is a delicate and visually dynamic deconstruction of the Bollywood...
oneillej
Mar 15, 20214 min read
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A Long Dream: Attack on Titan chapter 138 - Review
Attack on Titan's penultimate chapter arrives with a host of reunions, revelations, and heart-breaking plot twists; setting the stage for...
oneillej
Mar 8, 20219 min read
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Re-Realising Love: Umibe no Étranger (2020) - Review
Umibe no Étranger, or, The Stranger by the Beach, is third title released under FujiTV's Blue lynx banner; an anime company dedicated...
oneillej
Mar 1, 20215 min read
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