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It’s about a reserved young lad, Negishi, moving to the city of debauchery that is Tokyo and fronting a death metal band, as Krauser II, even though he would rather be at home drinking green tea and listening to laid back indie pop.
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The idea of commenting on Japan, its identity, its possible future is all well and good, but there’s no commentary on Japan’s own misdoings (its treatment of indigenous people or neighbouring countries, etc), not even sly winking, it’s all played very straight-faced which makes it look like fascistic propaganda.
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Asano’s stories would drip with cliché and hackneyed nonsense in another author’s hands; they are so ripe for rolling your eyes at. But Solanin is fresh, adult, funny, compelling and emotional. It manages to roll up those moments of our early twenties into two volumes of heart-felt drama presented in what is now a typically Asano fashion.
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A precursor to Yoshitoshi Abe’s much praised Haibane Renmei, we have a similar setup here with White Rain: people waking up on the other side of reality with no memories.
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With this manga we have a master storyteller breezing through an intriguing backdrop, occasionally threatening to descend into cliche, but avoiding it enough to become an entertaining romp through the world of women’s baseball in post-war Japan. The stakes are high, the hopes and dreams of a nation rest on the left arm of a woman, can tetsuwan girl carry the burden?
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Takehiko Inoue’s Real is his most mature and accomplished work. You won’t find constant court action here with secret techniques powering up people. This is a tale about three young men, the issue of disability in Japan, and of course basketball.
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Fuyumi Soryo is an intelligent writer. Her use of all the tropes of high school based manga feels refreshing, and her focus on mental, emotional instability and psychological scars is fascinating and compelling. It’s assisted through the use of contemplative dialogue and characters interacting to move the plot forward, rather than the plot conspiring in convoluted or clichéd ways to move the characters.
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Then I realised something. After this scene, the camera never cuts away all the way to the end. I went back and watched the movie from the beginning and realised the camera never cuts away during the entire movie. Not one of the greatest scenes in the history of anime after all. Cannon Fodder is the greatest one-take in the history of anime, and if it were in live action then it would be the best in cinema, period.
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The opening to this movie blew me away. When a gigantic bullet casing, falling from a mecha’s weapon, bounced off a lady’s head on a street far below, causing her to fall over and die, I instantly gave this a 10.
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Without going too much into the plot, what we ultimately get in this manga is a pretty break-neck paced thriller about corporations seeking power, offspring demanding answers for their reason for existing, unlikely brotherhoods forming while others disintegrate, spontaneous violence from psychopaths, history and economics lessons, and lots of excellent quotes as usual from Buronson aka Sho Fumimura aka Yoshiyuki Okamura. (Stop confusing us man, just pick one!)
Cihan Narin 