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Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature)

07Jan20102300

The first story of Aoi Bungaku, No Longer Human, is covered in a soft, often wintry mist that per­meates through to the character’s unsur­pris­ing end. The remain­ing five stor­ies how­ever are vividly real­ised, vary­ing between sharp real­ity and kal­eido­scopic dream­s­capes; each con­veys the vagar­ies of human­ity with poignancy and skill. So too […]

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Umineko no naku koro ni (When the seagulls cry)

06Jan20102100

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When begin­ning Umineko no naku koro ni, it was been dif­fi­cult to pre­dict that the series would by the end fea­ture no less than six witches, one dragon, one but­ler, three mil­it­ary bunny girls, seven float­ing females wear­ing school uni­forms crossed with leo­tards, and hordes of sharply suited goat-men. Say­ing that it […]

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Anime of the decade: #5

27Dec20092000

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Kara no Kyoukai
Kara no Kyoukai is, without hyper­bole, one of the most ambi­tious and intel­li­gent series, movie or oth­er­wise, to come out in the past ten years. As the pro­gen­itor of the Type-Moon dyn­asty it is afforded the means to avoid the over­bear­ing fran­chise over­load that can scare away fresh view­ers. It presents a world […]

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Anime of the decade: #9

23Dec20092000

Black Lagoon
The first two epis­odes of Black Lagoon are a car­ni­val of ridicu­lous­ness. The cli­max of the open­ing story sees a boat use a ramp to launch tor­pedoes at a pur­su­ing heli­copter while the instig­ator of the plan flips off the doomed pilot. To say the series is quite silly would be an under­state­ment. Even […]

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Kara no Kyoukai: Murder Speculation (Part Two)

13Dec20091900

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The last movie in the Kara no Kyoukai fran­chise is in no hurry  —  two full hours to com­plete one of the best series of recent memory and it does so with grace, thought­ful­ness and poignancy that sur­passes even itself. Pulling together threads which have run through­out all of the films, it sub­limely finishes […]

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