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Anime of the decade: #4

28Dec20092000

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Five Cen­ti­metres Per Second
On first watch­ing Five Cen­ti­metres Per Second, the over­bear­ing sad­ness of Takaki’s jour­ney from love­struck adoles­cent to down­trod­den adult is depress­ing; the piano music that fol­lows him through the three stor­ies of the film is a heart­beat of yearn­ing for times gone by. Sub­sequent view­ings but build upon this and more than […]

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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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