This Week: Muromi-san on the Shore (Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san).
Earth Day was this week, so I tried to fish up something almost topical.
Category: Anime Backcatalog Reflections
Mothballs: Antiquity Tree, Piano Forest
This Week: Piano Forest (Piano no Mori: The Perfect World of Kai).
Talent for the ivory keys is not supposed to grow among the leaves.
Mothballs: A Desert Rose and a Gin Tonic
This Week: Desert Rose (Suna no Bara: Yuki no Mokushiroku).
While an all-women version of The Expendables continues to be debated, this OVA jumped the gun to compete against many of those male action hero actors’ flicks when they were still in their prime.
Mothballs: Pure-White Tiny Nene Giant Yoyo Magical Glastonbury
This Week: Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene (Majokko Shimai no Yoyo to Nene).
It is quite alright if one believes magic can solve anything, at least for a short little while.
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Mothballs: The Book of Nimrod
This Week: Nimrod.
It would not be the first notion of folks using language to rebel against a higher power.
Mothballs: Pictionary Sticks and Japanese-English Stones
Anime: Japanese-English Pictionary.
Let’s play a game, even if the outcome is already predetermined.
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Mothballs: Be Your True Choice
Anime: Your Choice! (Dottini-Suru?)
The name of this movie is not an instruction set meant for the viewer, but some very particular members of the creative staff.
Mothballs: To Be A Taiko Drum Master
This Week: Taiko Drum Master (Taiko no Tatsujin)
A little claymation children’s series based on the popular arcade rhythm game, and the silly faces that allows for.
Mothballs: The Word Whispers, Nobody Is In Paradise
This Week: Whispered Words (Sasameki Koto)
A series in many respects about secrets, even if my explorations of yuri and shōjo-ai here is anything but.
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Mothballs: The Lunn Takes To The Skies
This Week: Lunn Flies into the Wind (Lunn wa Kaze no Naka).
Osamu Tezuka directs a short film about crushing depression, adolescent coping mechanisms, and loving pretty inanimate objects.
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