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Review: Fonotune – An Electric Fairytale (2018)
5 years ago

Review: Fonotune – An Electric Fairytale (2018)

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Inspired by Japanese cinema, manga, and graphic design, Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale, is an intriguing new film by first time feature director Fint (aka Fabian Huebner), which may well divide audiences.
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For the Kid I Saw in my Dreams Volume 1 (Review)
5 years ago

For the Kid I Saw in my Dreams Volume 1 (Review)

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While Kei Sanbe’s latest manga isn’t a time travel fantasy per se, its immature hero’s adulthood has its foundation in a horrific childhood that leaks here and there by …
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Juni Taisen Zodiac War Volume One (Manga Review, Spoilers)
5 years ago

Juni Taisen Zodiac War Volume One (Manga Review, Spoilers)

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Like Hunger Games meets Suicide Squad, in Juni Taisen Zodiac War Volume One, a supervillian fight club pits various cuddly psychopathic furries possessed by the animals of the Chinese zodiac …
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Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Volume Three (Manga Review, Spoilers)
5 years ago

Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Volume Three (Manga Review, Spoilers)

Destruction Volume

As I remarked in my review of Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Volume One, Asano hasn’t varied his formula much from Goodnight Punpun, with the exception that he’s stacking his …
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Delicious in Dungeon Volume Five (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Delicious in Dungeon Volume Five (Manga Review, Spoilers)

dungeon volume five

Whereas volumes one through four covered the quest for Falin, Delicious in Dungeon Volume Five begins a new arc which not only pits several adventuring groups against each other, but …
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Delicious in Dungeon Volume Four (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Delicious in Dungeon Volume Four (Manga Review, Spoilers)

dungeon volume four

While faux dungeon delicacies were presented as the hook for this manga, by Delicious in Dungeon Volume Four, it has matured into a love letter to fantasy-themed role-playing games, with …
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Loot Anime August 2018: Defend (Review)
6 years ago

Loot Anime August 2018: Defend (Review)

Defend

One of my favorite Loot Anime crates to date due to two Astro Boy items, Defend included not only two heroic tee-shirts, but a gym rag to buff your inner …
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Star Wars Lost Stars Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Star Wars Lost Stars Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)

star wars lost stars

Joining the expanded Star Wars universe is the manga adaptation of Star Wars Lost Stars, a bildungsroman about Imperial cadets. Lost Stars possesses not only appealing line art, but the Star …
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Dr. Stone Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Dr. Stone Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)

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While the titular hero of Dr. Stone is Senku, who earns that sobriquet as he crafts the cure for the petrification epidemic which froze human history, human civilization, and, in …
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My Hero Academia Volume 13 (Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

My Hero Academia Volume 13 (Review, Spoilers)

My Hero Academia Volume 13

My Hero Academia Volume 13 is marked by several shifts in tone and content, as the free-for-all format of the provincial licensing exam concludes with a canned catastrophe; in a …
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Sacrificial Princess and The King of The Beasts Volume 1 (Review)
6 years ago

Sacrificial Princess and The King of The Beasts Volume 1 (Review)

Sacrificial Princess

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts is a unique reversal on the Beauty and the Beast myth–rather than a man cursed to be a beast, the King of Beasts …
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Astra Lost in Space Volume 3 (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Astra Lost in Space Volume 3 (Manga Review, Spoilers)

Astra Lost

Less science fiction than “skiffy” adventure comedy, Kenta Shinohara’s Astra Lost in Space crams nine kids into a shonen manga trope spam (the faux meat, not the e-mail), then rockets …
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