After the long delay that is typical for most anime movies that premiere in the US, the new Violet Evergarden side story, Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, has finally reached US Netflix. As the Violet Evergarden series might be my favorite anime of all time, you can imagine my excitement to see…
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In all the anime I’ve seen (which I admit is relatively small), there are not many that match Promare’s visual aesthetic. It’s an odd blend of the traditional with the abstract, choosing a more polygonal approach than organic. Honestly, it’s fairly reminiscent of some modern day western cartoons, choosing rough simplicity over detailed elegance. From…
Read MoreReview: Anthem of the Heart
Anime likes to explore the human psyche, and because it’s such a visual medium, it often does that in out-of-the-box ways since the only limitations are what you can draw on paper (and occasionally augment with some special effects). Things that might look silly when using real people can pass as totally believable in anime…
Read MoreReview: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
This movie is going to be difficult to write about. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (KimiSui, Let Me Eat Your Pancreas; 君の膵臓をたべたい) is a movie about fulfilling the dying wishes of a girl with a terminal pancreatic illness. But that isn’t what makes it hard to write about. More than anything, this movie is…
Read MoreReview: A Silent Voice
Here it is. The first official movie review. And I picked a good one. A Silent Voice (The Shape of Voice; Koe no Katachi; 聲の形) returned to American theaters for the second time this week for a special two-night event (one night for the Sub, and one night for the wrong one Dub) and I…
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