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Japan's Anime Taste Compared to the West

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Review: Journey to the West (2021)

Journey to the West 宇宙探索编辑部 China, 2021, colour, 16:9, 116 mins. Director: Kong Dashan 孔大山. Rating: 5/10. Mockumentary about a nutty alien-hunter who wants to find the meaning…

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The Trash Taste Anime Opening

What if Trash Taste had an anime opening. Go upvote the video on the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrashTaste/comments/121kay1/the_trashtaste_anime_opening/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dirkoin Videos used: All of them, literally have used soo much footage

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The Nippon Gallery Presents Japan's Anime Sweeping the World

A new art exhibit in New York City, on display through July 26, showcases the works of eight artists inspired by anime and manga.

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Eating yoi in the kinjo.

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Anime Taste Testing: Somali to Mori no Kamisama

If I can’t have more Natsume Yuujinchou, I can at least enjoy its more innocent, less melancholy cousin. Either far in the past or perhaps even in a…

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The West Wing

It seems like I am forever playing catchup with my sources of entertainment. Half a decade after The West Wing finished airing, I finally took the time to…

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I believe it was in October of 2019 when Nissin Japan's Twitter feed posted a mockup of a Cup Noodle that was assembled as a model kit.  The...

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I was preparing a 72 hour emergency kit and wanted a relatively inexpensive bushcrafting knife that had a ferro rod for starting fires.  The...

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Anime Taste Testing: Dorohedoro

Strap yourself in, this is one wild trip. And a trip Dorehedoro most certainly is. Whether it’s one you can stomach or not largely depends on your tolerance…

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Aside from the creepy teacher, this series is actually pretty okay.

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This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.

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Anime Taste Testing: Sakugan

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Anime Taste Testing: Pet

An adult anime for teenage edgelords. It seems that nearly every time I see a psychological genre anime marketed explicitly towards the seinen crowd, it feels exactly like…

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Anime Taste Testing: Overtake!

Let’s all ganbaru together.

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Anime Taste Testing: Kakushigoto

Yes, I genuinely like the pun. Given the synopsis, I was fully ready to experience something… well, pervy, for lack of a better term. What I wasn’t ready…

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Anime Taste Testing: SK∞

Fast and Furious: Okinawa Drift.

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Anime Taste Testing: Arte

I’d say I love period pieces, but that would be a lie. I love accurate period pieces. I wish to god this title had just been set in…

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Anime Taste Testing: Listeners

So Liverpool and Manchester finally united, and then the apocalypse happened. Sounds about right. I’ll get this out of the way right off the bat: I’m an unapologetic…

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Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse

I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…

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Anime Taste Testing: ID:Invaded

Finally, the detective anime we didn’t know we needed (but that we definitely deserved). You’d be forgiven for wanting to give up on the anime detective/mystery genre entirely…

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Student Podcast Episode 4 - Anime in the West

In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class.  In this episode, a student shares his passion for anime…

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Taste Test: Train to the End of the World

it’s all about perspective! There were a good handful of shows I pushed to the top of my to-watch list this spring, many of which are sequels. Sure,…

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Neither are great, but at this point, I’m taking what I can get.

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Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.

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If Madoka Magica was a (bad) battle royale instead of magical-girl.

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Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen

And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…

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Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence

The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…

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DECA-DENCE, Great Pretender, Attack on Titan

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Anime Taste Testing: Urusei Yatsura

Some anime do genuinely deserve a reboot. Others should probably never again see the light of day, no matter how historically important.

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Anime Taste Testing: Blue Period

This is one of those shows that I quite want to like, but am still in the process of working out if I actually do.

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Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen

And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…

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Anime Taste Testing: Appare-Ranman!

I mean… where do I even start? Well, at the very beginning, I guess, because the opening scene (set one year after the events of the first episode…

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