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  • Billy Bat

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    Naoki Urasawa is my favorite mangaka, and his current series, Billy BatĀ – the story of a Mickey Mouse-like comic strip character that is more than it seems – has been a treat to follow. I hadnā€™t read any new chapters since earlier in the year, and just this week went and got caught up on…

  • Inuyashiki

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    I just recently came across this new-ish manga from Hiroya Oku (Gantz), and was so absorbed that I plowed through everything that has been released so far (5 volumes) in one morning. Itā€™s a mesmerizing and very dark take on what happens when someone suddenly finds themselves with fantastic (and mechanical) powers, good or bad.…

  • The Assassin

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    I was deeply affected by this movie. My first steps to Asia were taken after I enrolled in an East-Asian Studies program, focusing on the Chinese side, which led me to studying in China. Chinese cinema – especially the work of Zhang Yimou, and but even a film like Bertolucciā€™s The Last Emperor – contributed…

  • Cutting Edge

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    The joys of losing posts. Last night I wrote a long post about my recent frustrations with the digital edition of Edge magazine, as of the latest issue. I was even positioning it as a sort of return of The Magaziner (the site I used to run about magazine culture). But I somehow lost the…

  • Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection

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    This is one of the best things Iā€™ve seen from Disney in forever. Such a fantastic collection of shorts, and it just made me realize how much I wish we got more things like this – not movies, not TV shows, but just shorts that allow for interesting bursts of creativity. Also, it makes me…

  • Le secret de KhĆ¢ny

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    As a kid, the Yoko Tsuno series of comics was one of my favorites – foreshadowing my future life in Japan perhaps – and Iā€™ve continued to read them throughout my life. Itā€™s been a few years since Iā€™ve read one though, and over the weekend I read the latest book to come out, Le…

  • Into the Badlands

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    Iā€™m finding that I almost donā€™t watch any shows in realtime anymore (week-to-week), and instead just prefer to watch them when they become available as a full season on Netflix. One recent exception is Ash vs Evil Dead, and then I was curious to check out the new AMC series, Into the Badlands. The pilot…

  • Anthony Jeselnik: Thoughts and Prayers

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    Watching this Netflix stand-up special was my first taste of his comedy – I am aware of him as a comedian, but Iā€™m not quite sure from where, possibly from the WTF podcast. Iā€™ll say that I didnā€™t find this to be laugh-out-loud funny like I did John Mulaneyā€™s special, but after a bit of…

  • Jessica Jones

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    Iā€™m now on episode 6 of this series, and Iā€™m still not quite sure if I really like it or not. I mean, the fact that Iā€™m still watching it must mean that Iā€™m finding some sort of enjoyment or satisfaction out of the show, but I canā€™t help but feel unsatisfied throughout. The highlights…

  • Return of the Jedi

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    When the scene near the beginning in Jabbaā€™s Palace with that extended musical performance happens, it just makes me want to cry. Itā€™s so incredibly bad. And the lack of the Ewok song at the end is still so incredibly unsatisfying. God I hate theĀ ā€œspecial editionā€ changes.