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Written by David Nolen
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 17:41 |
Synopsis
I don’t think I can really provide a summary for this one for a variety of reasons. Sure I could for the movie in and of itself, but considering the movie is such a tribute to the rich history of this story, I’m thinking I should probably take some time out to delve into that in the review proper before talking about the movie itself.
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Written by JC DuBois
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 22:24 |
Untitled Document
Overview
Before I get into the meat of this review, I have to pause for a word from
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been said, let's cut out the gristle and get on with the tenderizing. Recently
I've been getting into manga a bit more, and in the course of exploring that
ran across a little treasure trove of a place
called SnoopyCool. Great little place, check it out folks. Anyway, among
other series that I found there was a little horror movie in the making named Bio-Meat:
Nectar.
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Written by JC DuBois
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 00:00 |
Overview
As with any storytelling medium, sometimes anime is used to retell familiar
tales. Many series started out as manga - Japanese comic books. Ikkitousen is
based on Battle Vixens, which was in turn based on the Romance
of the Three Kingdoms novel. The series that I picked up for this review, Romeo
x Juliet, is based off the original Shakespearian play Romeo and Juliet.
However, it's a reimagination made from the point of view of the Japanese culture,
and it interweaves a few more ideas into the basic storyline that gave the
series its name.
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Written by JC DuBois
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 00:00 |
Overview
A couple seasons back, there was a little Gonzo series by the name of Witchblade that
wound up just blowing me away. It had a particularly unique visual style, though
- oh, who am I kidding? The women had racks you could have used to catch people
jumping from third story windows. Still, that aside, the series was damned
good, and it had an awesome ending that I never got around to mentioning in
the review. Now we'll jump ahead to the beginning of the fall 2007 season,
and a series named Dragonaut ~ The Resonance, also by Gonzo... It
was quickly very obvious that it was being animated by the same team that did Witchblade,
and that they'd... upgraded some... Somebody bring in the industrial strength
over the shoulder boulder holders, please...
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Written by JC DuBois
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 00:00 |
Overview
The way that I figure it, you can divide every season of anime into three sets
of series. There's the Generics - the ones that are there every season, in
some form. The series that are the same story, with a different name, in other
words. Then there's the Brand Names - the series that make the season. Often
these are sequels, or else eroge conversions, but they share a common trait
with the Generics in that it's still stuff that you've seen before. Now, needless
to say, I'm after the third group, the Wild Ideas... These are the series that
try a really new spin on something. They might be based on a manga, or eroge
- but not the sort of 'seen it before' material shared by the first two groups.
It's hard to do, and be successful - the sad thing is, it seems like most viewers
want either the Generics, or the Brand Names... In short, they want stuff that
they're comfortable with. Get to the point, JC, I can hear you saying. Alright
- it's this season's Wild Idea that I'm taking a look at today, Spice and
Wolf.
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Written by JC DuBois
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:00 |
Overview
Geeze... short season, wasn't it? Aside from Persona and one or two
others, everything for the Winter 2008 season was a short thirteen episodes,
and I'm left feeling a bit unfulfilled, honestly. But, alright, since it looks
like I haven't got much choice, I suppose that I'd better take a look at a
couple of the shows that just finished wrapping up. First up on my list is
a little gem called H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~. Now, before I go
much farther, I should mention that there's something about H2O that
will either utterly turn you off, or draw you in like moth to flame. Part of
the opening includes scenes of one of the main characters - a young girl -
getting the tar beaten out of her by a pair of boys. It's not an accident -
and not a case of metaphor. Stick with me here, I'm going to delve into it
a bit shortly.
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