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  Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island 2022

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Charming for its adherence to the more exaggerated elements of the original series being wed to rather good animation, yet it's hard not to recognize that this being an adaptation of a 25-minute episode of the original series (no matter how notorious it was from a production standpoint) meant that the story was going to suffer in the translation, making for a lot of dead air that never gets enough justification to work like it wants to, as well as…

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  Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  With it being an broadcast anime compendium of the first few episodes, it can only do so much to present a satisfying narrative in movie form, but if it works better as a taste of what's to come, you couldn't ask for a better sample than what you get here, as the compendium does a lot to bridge the gap between old-school Gundam fans, particularly in its jam-packed first half hour that tells a familiar story in a very, very…

Popular reviews

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  Modest Heroes 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2019 1

  Hey, an anthology film! You know what that means!

  Kanini & Kanino: We start off with a neat little short from veteran Ghibli director Hiromasa Yonebayashi that mixes hand-drawn characters with CG elements to an intriguing effect. The underwater theme being put to use in a local stream gives the film an atypical look from those more ocean-bound, allowing for an earthier look that makes the integration of both animation techniques as smooth as it can be. The decision to go…

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  Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice 1972

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jun 2015

  If the Zatoichi films, particularly the later ones, didn't make a compelling argument for star/producer/occasional writer and director Shintaro Katsu having a bit of a masochistic streak about him, then Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice leaves absolutely no doubt left in anyone's mind for that being the case. As the movie begins, we see Hanzo take a defiant stand against his superiors by refusing to sign his officer's oath: despite having already worked on the force for four years,…