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STUDIO PONOC’s Modest Heroes (& Tomorrow’s Leaves) || Summer Film Spotlight #8

CELEBRATING STUDIO PONOC 🌱

Takuto's Anime Cafe

Jul 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Tomorrow’s Leaves

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Studio Ponoc’s Cute Short “Tomorrow’s Leaves” Kicks Off the Tokyo 2020 Olympics!

Happy Olympics Day!

Takuto's Anime Cafe

Jul 23, 2021 • Subscribe

Tomorrow’s Leaves

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Tokyo Godfathers || Summer Film Spotlight #2

IT’S CHRISTMAS IN JULY ✨🎄✨

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Jun 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Tokyo Godfathers

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Miss Hokusai || Summer Film Spotlight #3

THE UNTOLD STORY 🌊✍️

Takuto's Anime Cafe

Jun 12, 2021 • Subscribe

Miss Hokusai

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Ride Your Wave || Summer Film Spotlight #5

SUMMER ROMANCE IS HERE

Takuto's Anime Cafe

Jun 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Ride Your Wave

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Dead Leaves: Studio Trigger's Prehistory | KYOTO VIDEO

Even a cutting-edge studio like Trigger had to start somewhere. Luckily for its co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi, he nailed it on his first shot with 2004's whacked-out trip of…

KaiserBeamz

Nov 15, 2022 • Subscribe

Dead Leaves

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The Stranger by the Shore || Summer Film Spotlight #6

THE BOYS ARE FINALLY HERE, MY FRIENDS 🌼

Takuto's Anime Cafe

Jul 12, 2021 • Subscribe

The Stranger by the Shore

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Children of the Sea 🐋 || Summer Film Spotlight #4

MYSTERIES OF THE SEA 🐠🐋🐠

Takuto's Anime Cafe

Jun 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Children of the Sea

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Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel I. Presage Flower || Summer Film Spotlight #1

SUMMER AT THE MOVIES BEGINS! ☺️

Takuto's Anime Cafe

May 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Fate/stay night

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How Monolith Soft Changed Nintendo | Game Studio Spotlight

Grab AtlasVPN Special deal for 82% OFF https://get.atlasvpn.com/CanipaEffect ! #ad Canipa breaks down the work of Monolith Soft, particularly their work on the Xenoblade series, and how their unique…

The Canipa Effect

Mar 22, 2022 • Subscribe

Animal Crossing, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Kill la Kill, Knights of Sidonia

Summer 2025 anime spotlight: Turkey!

Last season, I highlighted three anime series that stood out to me half-way through; not necessarily the best shows airing, but ones that surprised me in one way…

AngryJellyfish's Blog

Aug 31, 2025 • Subscribe

Turkey!-Time to Strike-

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The End of Summer Film – It’s a Summer Film!

I’m only a touch late regarding talking about JFF Theater films. They’ve only been up for over a month, with two of them leaving streaming by the end…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Sep 18, 2024 • Subscribe

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Director Spotlight #8: “Toward Zero”

Dir. ITO Takashi (Toward Zero) ITO was born in Fukuoka in 1956. While studying in university, his experimental film SPACY(1981), premiered at MATSUMOTO…

News - Chicago Japan Film Collective

Jun 13, 2023 • Subscribe

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Director Spotlight #7: “Leave in Summer”

Born in Hokkaido in 1996. “Tokeru” (2016) which Igashi made in college was officially selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival, Cinéfondation category. She made her theatrical debut…

News - Chicago Japan Film Collective

Nov 1, 2024 • Subscribe

O Maidens in Your Savage Season

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Mecha Never Dies - A Bandai Namco Story | Anime Studio Spotlight

Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: https://clcr.me/VcvPtK and get a special starter pack 💥 Available only for the next 30 days #ad Canipa takes a cynical look into the…

The Canipa Effect

Apr 23, 2022 • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative, SAKUGAN, Planet With, Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars

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Breaking Down Arcane: League of Legend's Incredible Animation | Studio Spotlight

Canipa breaks down the unique production of Fortiche Productions' Arcane: League of Legends, and why 3D anime in Japan struggle to reach its ambition. Support The Canipa Effect on…

The Canipa Effect

Jan 11, 2022 • Subscribe

D4DJ First Mix, Revisions, Rusted Armors, Super Cub, BEASTARS

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Anime OST Spotlight #8: Magic-Kyun! Renaissance

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Tara's Anime World

Feb 16, 2020 • Subscribe

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Pokémon Colosseum Could Have Been the Franchise's Future | Game Studio Spotlight

Canipa looks back at his favourite Pokémon game and dreams of a world where new artists and developers continued to create Pokémon RPGs. (Spoilers for Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon…

The Canipa Effect

Oct 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Cipher, Hells, Pokémon

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Ashita no Nadja / Tomorrow’s Nadja – 01 & 02

Tomorrow’s Nadja’s (2003) main claim to fame is that it was the opening series for Toei’s Sunday morning Super Hero Time, between Ojamajo DoReMi (1999-2003) and Futari wa…

Paul Kemner.com

Apr 7, 2025 • Subscribe

Tomorrow's Nadja, Pretty Cure

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First Impression: Tomorrow’s Joe/Ashita no Joe

Japan, 1968. The story opens with a young man trudging along a dirt track across a meadow that is otherwise empty except for the scattered heaps of illegally…

Beneath the Tangles

Nov 1, 2024 • Subscribe

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My Hero Academia the Movie -Heroes: Rising- Film Review

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Biggest In Japan

Dec 23, 2019 • Subscribe

Director Spotlight: “Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director”

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Nov 5, 2025 • Subscribe

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Oversharing Leaves No Privacy

Don’t get me wrong I’ll never shut up about anime You may have seen me last year write a similar post on sharing your anime passion online but…

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Apr 19, 2021 • Subscribe

The Longest Summer (1998) [Film Review]

The Longest Summer; or, Lost in a Big City      I'm disappointed in you! Want me to join the mob? Want me to rob a bank? You…

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Director Spotlight #8: “New Nemuro Pro Wrestling Story”

Born in 1976 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, he graduated from the Nihon University College of Art, majoring in film directing. He has directed a wide range of television programming,…

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Tomorrow’s Joe 2: The Movie – A Dangerous Obsession

It’s been literally more than 4 years since I’ve written about the first Tomorrow’s Joe film. I wrote it when Discotek released it a long time ago and…

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Jun 15, 2022 • Subscribe

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My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes’ Mission Film Review

My review of My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission is now up over on Anime News Network.

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Episode 357 - Grave of the Fireflies: Studio Ghibli's Darkest Film

Shaun's been foreshadowing this one for weeks but it's time to find out if Remington is ready for Studio Ghibli's legendary drama Grave of the Fireflies. Meanwhile Remington may…

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Summer 2020 Summary: Week 8

Mario: Hello everyone, this week I decided to drop Appare Ranman. It did have what I consider its best episode (episode 7) a few weeks back, but I…

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Weekly Review — Banished From The Heroes’ Party Episode 8

My review of Banished From The Heroes' Party episode 7 is up over on Anime News Network.

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Nov 28, 2021 • Subscribe

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OtakuGeneration.net :: (Show #953) Dead Leaves

Shownotes :: (show 953) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Dead Leaves, recorded live September 10th, 2023.   This week, we watched something that none…

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Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu's latest film Belle Gets World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2021

The good folks from anime distribution company Anime Limited have sent us the latest details about Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu's latest f...

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The Journey of Yasuhiro Takeda: From DAICON FILM to Studio GAINAX

“Just on the border of your waking mind, There lies another time, Where darkness and light are one, And as you tread the halls of sanity, You feel…

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The Journey

Director Spotlight: “The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes”

Dir. SANGOUMI Midori田口智久 監督 …

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Summer 2022 – Week 8 in Review

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Though this article title claims there’s somehow still a third of the summer season to go, it certainly doesn’t…

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Summer 2020 – Week 8 in Review

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another goddamn Wednesday. I watched a fairly balanced array of features this past week, including an unexpected horror gem, another American classic,…

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Summer 2023 – Week 8 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It’s been another hectic week on my end, as we approached and marched by the due date for moving…

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Summer 2021 – Week 8 in Review

Jeez, the anime seasonal schedule is all kinds of messed up, huh? According to broadcast schedules, late August is somehow just two-thirds of the way through the summer…

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Summer Time Render Episodes 8 & 9

Episode 8 felt pretty weird. It was pretty lighthearted for the most part until Shadow Mio came in to attack Shinpei, but the animation felt really different as…

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Summer 2021 Weekly Summary – Week 8

Kaizoku Oujo – 1-2 Wooper: Kazuto Nakazawa’s new TV anime, a pre-industrial pirate/ninja mashup, is off to what I’d call a decent start. Its design sensibilities remind me…

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Summer 2024 – Week 8 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I write to you from deep in the midst of my Sailor Moon marathon, having completed the show’s…

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Golgo 13: The Professional, Golgo 13, Sailor Moon

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What’s up guys! Last month we made a teaser post that we were going to be bringing in a new segment for the month of February known as…

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Secret Santa: House of Five Leaves

For those who don’t know Secret Santa… In my first year of participation, I got to choose between Tekkon Kinkreet, Manabi Straight, and House of Five Leaves. Since…

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House of Five Leaves and Radiant

The Dodgers are headed back to Milwaukee with a 3-2 lead and nothing bad will happen don’t ruin this for me podcast audience. This episode, we’re talking about…

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Chihayafuru S3 – 15 [Helpless Autumn Leaves]

When this week’s episode opened with Chihaya staring dazedly into space, Arata’s voice looping in her brain, I thought we might be in for a slightly more romantic…

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Loundraw Interview: SUMMER GHOST – Animation is Film 2022

Popular illustrator, Loundraw had his debut film premiere during this year's Anime Expo 2022, & recently during this year's Animation Is Film festival, we had the opportunity to…

The Kitsune Network

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Heroes & Halfwits

Halfwits indeed. This is a D&D campaign by a group called “Adventure Hunter“. They are not a D&D group. Therefore, I will focus on H & H only.…

Akabasa

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Pokemon Heroes

Over on Dynamite In The Brain, we have a new podcast episode about Pokemon Heroes, with special guest, Ebbie from the BizarreJelly5 video blog. Download Dynamite In The Brain…

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Ep. by ep. – Legend of the Galactic Heroes – Eps. 5-8

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (Ep. 5) Juriusu Caesaru-san? I decided that I actually like both the OP and ED. Sure, they sound rather dated and might be far too…

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Studio Graviton

I have been researching Studio Graviton for a while, a small studio notable for its activities during the ‘80s, and I’ll articulate what I found in this post…

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Cyborg 009, Dr. Slump, Girl from Phantasia, Gunbuster, Macross

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Summer 2022 Anime Premiere Reviews – Day 8

Over on Anime News Network, as part of "The Summer 2022 Preview Guide," I've reviewed the first episodes of When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Prima Doll, and…

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Jul 9, 2022 • Subscribe

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Prima Doll, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?