On May 25, 1977, a small little indie film titled Star Wars (1977) was unleashed onto the world and captured the imagination and hearts of fans and artists alike. It featured a brand new world with sweeping spaceship battles, larger than life characters, crazy aliens and took many familiar genre and story elements, repackaging them … Continue reading Lensman Review (1984, Kazuyuki Hirokawa & Yoshiaki Kawajiri)
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