Tag: anime
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Recommended Anime, Manga, Prose and Live Action Cinema
Great resource. I avoid using popularity in making my choices. Instead I look at story quality, the level of cultural details and other creative elements. For this reason I have many titles which newer fans have never heard of, all titles I think fans should know about and hopefully have…
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Mononoke
Really awesome animation. Love the style and feel of this anime. You can watch the first episode below. Here is a brief overivew from Wikipedia: Mononoke follows a wandering, nameless character known only as the “Medicine Seller” (voiced by Takahiro Sakurai). The series is made up of individual chapters in…
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Video Games Inspiration for the Dying Art Of Japanese Woodprinting
Whether Hyrule or the Mushroom Kingdom, we’re used to video game heroes saving their own respective pixel worlds. This is the story of how video game characters like Mario, Link, and Kirby helped save a “floating world” (literally translated): ukiyo-e, a genre in the ancient craft of Japanese woodprinting. After…
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Amazing 19th-Century Illustrations of ‘The Divine Comedy’ – Flavorwire
Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy holds an important place in the pantheon of world literature. Countless artists have been inspired by Dante’s allegorical, visionary work, which describes the Italian poet’s journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Perhaps the best-known artist to adapt Dante’s unearthly tale was Gustave Doré, whose gorgeous…
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Contre temps | Vimeo
My good sister, Angela, posted this on her FB wall today. Appears that it is a student animation from France. Beautiful! Here is our graduation movie Contre temps, directed at Supinfocom Arles in 2012. We hope you will enjoy it! If you do, feel free to vote for us here:…
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I Love My Job (Animated) | Action Figure Therapy – YouTube
Okay… NSFW, but hilarious! Thanks to Ronnie P. for pointing me in the direction of this great bunch of videos. Action Figure Therapy’s Jungle explains why he loves his job so much. And he also describes an intimate encounter with a snake. (Spoiler alert: It ends badly for the snake.)
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Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East
Very much enjoying this anime. Five years previously everyone in Ōtsuka village died in a plague, but there were 3 survivors, Shino Inuzuka, Sosuke Inukawa and Hamaji. They took shelter in a church near another village, which happens to be near a dark and dangerous forest. The church, as well…
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‘Ordinary life’ anime finds a special place in fans’ hearts – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
There are no high-tech machines, no monsters, no aliens and no global catastrophe. But a certain genre in Japanese animation that portrays mundane everyday lives enjoys continued popularity among fans. The anime, collectively known as “kuuki-kei,” which literally means “like air” and can be interpreted as “slice of life,” goes…
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In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades | Books | guardian.co.uk
I always a enjoy a good piece of sober thinking that points out the implicit slippery slope fallacy lurking in so many Jeremiah like wailings of the “end is nye”… It’s tempting to get caught up in paradigm-shift apocalypticism, but a closer inspection reveals that fanfic is not new at…
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