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Spirit, strength and gratitude: understanding Buddhism through Hunter x Hunter

Isaac Netero watched first the snow fall, and then the seasons’ change around him as he perfected his technique. For two years, he stood fixed on the same spot as the world [...]
Surviving the summer: death and acceptance in Anohana

A childhood of summers blend and blur together, casting adolescence in the golden light of magic hour. As we get older, that summer becomes more like a fantasy of [...]
The rise and stall of motor racing anime

The history of motor racing is itself a history of the automobile industry. The dawn of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine in the late 1800s fired the starting [...]
The post-war kids: anime after annihilation

1952 was a key year in Japan’s cultural identity, marking the end of the American occupation and the publication of the first chapter of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. With [...]
The cute corruption of the anime zombie

Zombies provide an outlet for that most mortal of fears and fascinations; death, and what comes after. It’s a universal thread that’s tugged by all cultures, linking all [...]

3 emotional anime that will strike you straight in the feels

October 2, 2019

In this guest post, Kess from Tech Animate explores three anime that come guaranteed to give your emotions a work out. Do you want to go on an emotional roller coaster? Are [...]
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Review: Silver Spoon Season 2

October 12, 2019

As with farming in real life, agricultural-themed anime Silver Spoon is far from a sleepy, pastoral peek into rearing livestock and animal husbandry. The hours are long, the work is dirty and difficult, but it’s also rewarding, and Silver Spoon captures it all with aplomb. The show itself is brash and loud more often than not and while the backgrounds are rendered in smooth pastel shades, the foreground is littered with characters…so many characters! You might be reminded of another anime [...]
Review: Eromanga-sensei Volume 2
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Review: Devils and Realist Collection

Why watch … given?

September 13, 2019

given is, in many ways, like one of its central characters, Mafuyu – quiet, distant, full of pain, regret and longing and beautiful to behold. Like most of us, Mafuyu carries his emotional baggage around with him, only in his case its physical; a guitar. All spoilers aside, it’s clear from the outset that this guitar has an emotional significance as he hugs it, sleeps with it and carries it everywhere. He can’t even play, but that’s the catalyst needed to ignite a relationship with [...]
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Spirit, strength and gratitude: understanding Buddhism through Hunter x Hunter