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'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within': Persistence Of Vision December 06, 2021
Critically maligned, a financial disaster, and dramatically murky -- but dazzling nonetheless, and as a milestone for how CGI functions as its own storytelling medium
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Netflix's 'Cowboy Bebop': A New Jam Session November 22, 2021
Lopsided, but still very enjoyable; if this hasn't raised the upper bound for anime-to-live-action, it sure has raised the lower bound
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'Cop Craft': An Isekai Lethal Weapon November 15, 2021
Your standard cop-buddy story, made only slightly more interesting by having the buddy being a magic-wielding paladin
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'Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex': Twenty Minutes Into The Future August 14, 2021
When so much cyberpunk dates badly, the futurology of the first 'Ghost In The Shell' TV series remains thrillingly relevant almost twenty years later
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'Memories': Three By Otomo & Co. July 05, 2021
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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Izumi Suzuki's 'Terminal Boredom': She Saw The Future And It Didn't Work May 11, 2021
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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'Serial Experiments Lain': The Wired And The Weird April 25, 2021
Now that we're all wired, whether we like it or not, this cyberpunk urban legend and vaporwave precursor is even creepier and more prescient
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