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Mar 20, 2023
Despite what its ratings might indicate, Shika no Ou (The Deer King) is a movie with a lot of interesting, worthy things to say, and is very deserving of your time, provided you're willing to forgive (or at least look past) the pacing issues typical of novel-to-movie anime adaptations. This is a film that, even with a nearly two-hour (quite long, by anime movie standards) runtime, still feels too tightly compressed, though stretching the story out over an entire season might have been a worse choice. Those who deride the movie for its purely visual similarities to Ghibli's Princess Mononoke ignore the wide
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Oct 7, 2014
Girls & Panzer
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Girls und Panzer, which literally translates to "Girls and Armor," or more directly, "Girls and Tanks," is an odd show. It's 100% what the title says it is, and yet it's nothing like you might expect.
You might think a show about cute girls engaging in tank battles would be fanservice and ecchi-laden. Girls und Panzer delivers a single girl washing a tank in a bikini and a brief scene where a girl's bust is measured (over clothes) for her Tankery uniform. As cute as the cast can be, it's the tanks themselves the show wants you to ogle. You might think the series would be ... |
