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'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within': Persistence Of Vision 
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 
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 
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 
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. 
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 
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 
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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