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'Cop Craft': An Isekai Lethal Weapon 
Your standard cop-buddy story, made only slightly more interesting by having the buddy being a magic-wielding paladin
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'Demon Pond': Spirits In The Material World 
A lavish adult fairytale, now restored in 4K, and featuring a mesmerizing performance by one of Japan's legendary onnagata
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'Memories': Three By Otomo & Co. 
Katsuhiro Otomo's anthology project dazzlingly animates three of his stories, showing more sides to the man most only know through 'AKIRA'
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'Arion': Whom The Gods Would Destroy ... 
Calling it an anime 'Clash Of The Titans' falls far short; this staggeringly ambitious respinning of Greek mythic adventure is a must-see
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'Yasuke': Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos 
A wildly stylized project that bodes well for future trans-Pacific productions -- but which might have been just as good without being wildly stylized
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Izumi Suzuki's 'Terminal Boredom': She Saw The Future And It Didn't Work 
The first volume in English of this avant-garde feminist figure's work shows her approach to SF and fantasy as personal cultural commentary
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'The Strange Tale Of Panorama Island': He's So Unreal 
Suehiro Maruo's rendition of Edogawa Rampo's tale of wide-gauge decadence is both delirious and spot-on in its look and feel
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'Blade Of The Immortal': Life Sentence, Death Sentence 
An all-new anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's classic long-running manga gets it right at last
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'Children Of The Sea': The Life Aquatic 
Some of the finest animation around, lashed to the mast of a story that goes nowhere
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'Weathering With You': Who'll Stop The Rain? 
The latest of Makoto Shinkai's gorgeous films that inevitably end up being about so much less than the sum of their parts
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