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To the best of my knowledge, the reading of Woo’s films as queer-coded is something that’s been popular among fans in the west from around the time they started to become available on VHS. I wouldn’t want to deny anyone the opportunity to read it that way (or even definitively say that it isn’t...

The Ghost in the Shell ep3 It’s a shame they couldn’t have included this one with the cinema preview, it feels like a good episode for showcasing what Saru are doing with the show, covering some impressive action, an irreverent aside with the Fuchikomas and also some world building with the...

The Ghost in the Shell ep1-2 Not to throw shade on Suzie Yeung, but I definitely prefer Maaya Sakamoto as Kusanagi in this version. She seems to be playing it a lot closer to Atsuko Tanaka’s original performance.

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) Unable to find lodgings while going about his business in a provincial town, meek tax collector Leslie Cheung ends up spending the night in an abandoned old temple, where he encounters a beautiful young woman (Joey Wong), unaware that she is a ghost cursed to prey...

Fist of the North Star (2026) ep1-5 I was dismissive of this back when it started, certainly not helped by the cringe-inducing (but at least human-made) English dub, but it’s actually grown on me quite a bit. The CG animation can’t hold a candle to Orange’s work on Trigun, but it does seem to...

Appropriately enough, I’ve been back to it as well Dorohedoro S2 ep3-5 (English dub) The second season’s been kind of a curious experience as, for all it keeps feeling like we’re close to the story being resolved, it’s so capricious that it also feels like it could happily keep chugging along...

Call of the Night S2 ep9-12 Hmm. In the end, But yes, on the whole, I quite enjoyed this season; I thought it did better at navigating between comedy and drama than s1. Maybe it’s recency bias, but I might even go as far as to say I prefer Call of the Night to Monogatari, which it very much...

Call of the Night S2 ep7-8 The show has made no secret of , but seeing them fill in the details still felt surprisingly powerful. I do miss the easygoing quality of the early part of s1, but this second season has been very strong so far. Dorohedoro S2 ep1-2 (English dub) Good grief, they...

appearance is teased earlier in the sequence, but I take your point - if you weren’t familiar with Lupin already, the films don’t seem to make much effort to explain who he is or why he matters. I haven’t seen Zenigata and the Two Lupins, so it’s possible that might cover it in more detail...

Dorohedoro s1 (rewatch, English dub) ep4-12 + OVA Well that went down easy - didn’t think I’d finish rewatching the first season so quickly, but my enthusiasm for the show remains un diminished. I think what really makes Dorohedoro is the sheer charm of its characters; in another series, just...

Fist of the North Star (2026) ep1 Okay, deep breaths. You really can’t talk about this one without talking about the CGI. It certainly doesn’t look great; the decision to use hard black shadows all the time on the character models is broadly accurate to the look of the manga, but just looks...

Dorohedoro ep1-3 (English dub, rewatch) Rather than start straight into the second season, I thought I’d rewatch the first run of Dorohedoro beforehand. I still really enjoy the show; with its quirky, grungy setting, endearing characters and casual attitude to extreme violence, I think it...

Frieren S2 ep8-10 [end] Always a pleasant watch and never short of small, witty asides, but I do feel this season has been more like a hangout show or a clutch of short stories than the first. I don’t mean it as a complaint, but it does seem to conspicuously lack any significant plot...

Steel Ball Run ONA1 Mad to think we’ve actually got this now, it feels like the Jojo fans have been clamouring for it for years! With Stone Ocean, I accidentally spoiled myself on the ending and rather lost interest in it as a result (Netflix’s release schedule didn’t help either), so I’ve...

It always surprises me that they never tried to make any more Battle Angel Alita anime, but apparently the author was just not interested in pursuing it further, and that was the end of it.

Much as I like the first Patlabor film (would probably rank it among my favourites, in fact), I think that’s a fair point about the ending. Once Hoba’s scheme is exposed, there aren’t really any further revelations in the story, it’s just the climactic action sequence followed by Oshii shouting...

Frieren or Die Hard S2 ep2-7 The second season has been quite a gentle affair so far, so it came as a bit of a surprise to see how good the animation was when they got back to doing action again. Sudden reminder that this is, in fact, by Mad House. BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!! Ep1-3 Not exactly...

Arise is watchable enough, it’s just very forgettable and suffers the unenviable task of following on from SAC… My own favourite episode for the 2nd Gig is still Make Up, I think Paz provides a very different protagonist for the series from either Kusanagi or Batou and his episode has a more...

Yeah, I’ve seen a few negative comments, but mostly I would describe the reception as mixed to positive. I’m completely fine with them doing other stories in the universe or as AU content, my only thought is that I’d rather they go for an all new cast of characters than coming back to Shinji...

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