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February 26, 2018March 3, 2019

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST [Review]: Homunculus Hogwash.

Fumihiko Sori, director of the live action adaptation of Ping Pong and the Zatoichi inspired film Ichi, set out to make the live-action version of Fullmetal Alchemist a visual spectacle. Sori utilized technology that is new to Japan in an effort to make Japanese CGI more prominent. Sori wanted his version of FMA to be …

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October 24, 2017

A SILENT VOICE [Review]: Hearing Is Believing.

Based on the manga of the same name, director Naoko Yamada's A Silent Voice is an anime film dealing the issue of schoolyard bullying, and has finally found itself stateside. Not much a fan of anime myself (I know, I know, what sort of geek am I? I do love me some Cowboy Bebop, and Lupin III, …

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September 8, 2017

DEATH NOTE [Retrospective]: Girlish Screams and Apple Cores.

Adam Wingard’s American live-action version of Death Note based on the original manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata was just released to Netflix last week, but in addition to the 37 episode anime series the source material was also adapted into four live-action Japanese films (the most recent was released in 2016) and a …

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October 12, 2015October 12, 2015

NYCC ’15 [The Bible Scale, Day III]: The King James Scriptures.

Since our dear Editor-in-Chief "El Sacerdoce" J.L. Carabello couldn't attend his home state New York Comic-Con this year (tears all around!) and our NY Nitty homeslice hostest with the mostest, Doice John, is going as a pro-fession-al, leave it up to one man. One King of all Bibles, Jimmy Cupp, to lead you to the …

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