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Godzilla: The East and West Dilemmas
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Episode #62 – Batman Ninja
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Keijo!!!!!!!! (Episode 8) – The Dramatic East-West War!!!!
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East Meets West #10: Nichijou .vs. The Looney Tunes
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Keijo!!!!!!!! (Episode 10) – The Second East-West War Race!!!!
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East Meets West #25: Little Nemo .vs. Slumberland
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East Meets West #27: Summer Wars .vs. WarGames
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East Meets West #8: Konosuba .vs. South Park
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East Meets West #16: Anime Sanjushi .vs. The Three Musketeers
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East meets West – Playing Kingdom Hearts for the First Time
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East Meets West #6: Digimon Adventure .vs. The Last Airbender
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East Meets West #1: Dragon League .vs. The Mighty Ducks
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East Meets West: The Western/Japanese Animation Collaborations of the ‘80s
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East Meets West #2: Steins;Gate .vs. Back To The Future
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East Meets West #30: Little Witch Academia .vs. The Worst Witch
Some shows, while thematically different, can nevertheless contain elementally similar to one another. I’ve already pointed that out plenty in this series of posts: starting from the first,…
East Meets West #26: Japanese Digimon Movies .vs. Digimon – The Movie
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East Meets West #12: Your Name .vs. 17 Again
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East Meets West #9: Lucky Star .vs. Spongebob Squarepants
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Every day, ninjas fall further from the light of god. Impressions: The characters and story continue to be pretty awful at best, but it's also still providing…
East Meets West #17: 5 Centimeters Per Second .vs. The Great Gatsby
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East Meets West #29: Grave Of The Fireflies .vs. Life Is Beautiful
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East Meets West #3: Boku No Hero Academia .vs. The Karate Kid
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East Meets West #11: My Neighbor Totoro .vs. The Wind In The Willows
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East Meets West #21: Sonic The Hedgehog 1996 .vs. Sonic The Hedgehog 2022
Today’s comparison covers another video game film, namely that of the Sonic The Hedgehog series. Although many associate his first movie appearance to have occurred in February of…
East Meets West #28: Mewtwo Strikes Back .vs. Detective Pikachu
For the first time in this blog, I am going to address media from the Pokemon franchise. Arguably considered the most prominent of Japan’s anime, video game and…
East Meets West #19: Neon Genesis Evangelion .vs. Pacific Rim
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East Meets West #13: Spirited Away .vs. Alice In Wonderland
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East Meets West #18: Your Lie In April .vs. Amadeus
I was only a few months into high school when I first watched the 1984 film adaptation of the Peter Schaefer’s biopic Amadeus, which chronicles the career of…
East Meets West #5: Vatican Kiseki Chousakan .vs. Father Ted
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East Meets West #14: Castle In The Sky .vs. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
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East Meets West #15: Boku No Hero Academia (Reprise) .vs. The Avengers Quintology
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Sakuga Discourse Is Technocratic And A Guessing Game
Sakuga is the art of animation but what animates people to talk about it online and how can we improve upon that?
450 – Left to Right 1 – Pretty Deadly, Ursula, East of West
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East Meets West #23: Sword Art Online .vs. Ready Player One
Five days prior (6 November 2022) marked the start date of the events of the inaugural Sword Art Online (hereafter SAO) anime. It was on that Sunday when,…
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East and West comparisons: Is anime really just post-watershed terrestrial softcore fap-o-vision?
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By Raz Greenberg. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Joe Sutliff Sanders new book, Batman: The Animated Series, which analyzes the superhero show as part of Wayne State…
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East Meets West #24: The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya .vs. It’s A Wonderful Life
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East Meets West #31: Dark Side Of Dimensions .vs. Pyramid Of Light
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East Meets West #7: One Punch Man .vs. League Of Super Evil
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East Meets West #4: Super Mario Bros. Super Show .vs. Sonic X
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East Meets West #20: Super Mario Bros (1986) .vs. Super Mario Bros (1993)
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