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  • The Red Turtle

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    Last night I watched The Red Turtle, and I really don’t think there’s any other movie I saw this year that I enjoyed more. A mesmerizing and touching tale told with no dialogue, beautifully animated. I can’t recommend it enough, and it really makes me happy that Studio Ghibli believed in a project like this…

  • Miss Hokusai

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    It was a pretty great movie watching weekend for me, as I also watched the fantastic Miss Hokusai. I’d been meaning to watch it for quite a while, and I don’t quite know why it took me so long. Beautifully animated, it revolves around the daughter of uber famous Japanese artist Hokusai — she was…

  • Man vs. Snake

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    I love watching documentaries about gaming (well, I love watching documentaries, period) and was happy to find this one on Netflix. It focuses on an old arcade game called Nibbler that I had never heard about. Like the King of Kong documentary, it’s all about high-scores (although the feat here is closer to a marathon,…

  • The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

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    I recently noticed that the Robotech series from the 80s was added to Netflix (in Canada), and so I thought I’d start watching it. I have memories of really liking the series back when I was kid, but also that I had barely watched any of it, probably because it was only available on cable,…

  • Ping-Pong Club

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    Along with the new anime I’m watching, as with Macross and Queen Millennia, I’ve been diving into some old stuff as well, and that includes Ping-Pong Club. I’d watched some of it years ago (and read some of the manga), and have always loved the craziness of it. It’s a comedy series set within a high-school…

  • The Great Passage

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    The last of the new fall season shows I wanted to check out is The Great Passage (Fune wo Amu). As I had written, I didn’t know much about this one other than the setting, which is of a publishing company that produces dictionaries, following a new hire. It really does come off as a…

  • Ajin (Season 2)

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    Continuing with the shows that I’m checking out for this fall season of anime (as mentioned in this post), I was very happy to see the start of the second season of Ajin. Nothing much to report other than it’s still very good, continues the story of the manga, and I’m very much looking forward…

  • Queen Millennia

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    This is an old Leiji Matsumoto series from the 80s that I somehow had never heard of, despite the fact that in the US it had been released alongside the 70s Captain Harlock series, which is one of my favorite series of all time (albeit I watched it in its French incarnation, as Albator). I’ve…