Metropolis is…a silent film from 1927 by the German director Fritz Lang. It’s set in a dystopian future where some naive teenager tries to overcome the class system to pursue love. Metropolis is…a manga written in 1949 by Osamu Tezuka. Its similarities to the original film are pretty limited, mainly because Tezuka hadn’t even seen the film when he [...]
The issue I had with the earliest episodes of Space Bros was they were repetitive. The ongoing thread of Mutta having to keep to his dreams was being repeated without change or alternative views with each episode. It got really boring really quickly, and I started to wonder whether the 50+ episodes it was planning [...]
I’ve seen a few people hype this manga up pre-season, but I thought they must be reading some different manga to the Sankarea I did. The one I read was laughably horrible. It had the generic male Yuji Everylead. His perverted best friend. A school full of polite well brought up girls. The attractive dainty [...]
Avatar isn’t anime. It’s just American animation that’s highly influenced by anime. However it was through the high reputation it had amongst anime fans that got me to check it out in the first place. Hence it still counts as something related to anime that happened to me this year. So yeah, that’s my justification [...]
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