people: Dai Sato
2021
'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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2019
'Samurai Champloo': The Mix May 28, 2019
At the Venn intersection of '47 Ronin' and 'Cash Rules Everything Around Me' is this glorious jumble of period samurai adventure, road movie, anti-romantic triangle, comedy, drama, and stone cold classic
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2017
The Soul Of A New 'Ghost' April 07, 2017
Very little is known about the recently announced 'Ghost In The Shell' animation project, but the people on board so far are about as good as you could ask for
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2016
'Ergo Proxy': I Think, Therefore You Are November 21, 2016
Few anime intended for mainstream consumption are this avowedly experimental; fewer still pull it off to the degree this one does
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2014
Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Freedom': The Boys Who Fell To Earth August 12, 2014
In the wake of 'Short Peace' and with 'Interstellar' in the offing, Katsuhiro Otomo's reach-for-the-stars project uses the graphics of the former to deliver the message of the latter
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'Eureka Seven': The Way Young Lovers Do June 02, 2014
Nominally a giant-mecha fantasy, 'Eureka Seven' also explores the awkward pain of young love -- and the even greater pain of trading childhood for adulthood
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