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3 Episode Taste Test: Sora no Woto (Sounds of the Sky)

25Jan20102000

The easi­est way to describe Sora no Woto is to identify its most obvi­ous influ­ences. Already well estab­lished is the K-On! style gelat­in­ous char­ac­ter designs how­ever the set up and pacing has more in com­mon with Haibane and its European influ­enced loc­ale. Most prom­in­ent how­ever is the tonal sim­il­ar­it­ies to the Valkyria […]

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Anime of the decade: #2

30Dec20092000

Mushishi
Like the creatures them­selves, Mushishi came more or less out of nowhere. A crit­ic­ally acclaimed manga by Yuki Urushibara mostly unheard of out­side of Japan, and Stu­dio Art­land for which this would be one of their first fully pro­duced series out­side of some rel­at­ively obscure OVAs. For it to be so unspeak­ably bril­liant is at […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Fuyu no Sonata (Winter Sonata)

17Nov20092117

Begin­ning Winter Son­ata without know­ing its lin­eage is open­ing one­self up for con­fu­sion. While super­fi­cially Japan­ese, the series ori­gin­ates in South Korea, adap­ted from a non-animated drama series of which Winter Son­ata is the second of four which are col­lect­ively known as “End­less Love”. The ori­ginal tele­vi­sion cast are brought on in […]

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