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Twelve Thingies: Turning Point

This 12 Moments of Anime 2009, it is Char That’s the name of the 14th episode of Planetes and it means what it says in more than one way, some of which will spoil you if you haven’t seen this marvelous show, so don’t read on if that’s the case. The first half of Planetes [...]

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Planetes: It all depends on whose life you slice

Ah, “slice of life.” A loose categorization sometimes used in entertainment writing but rarely thought of as a genre outside anime. There in cartoon-land it lives a contentious existence being confused with other genres, added to other genres, and insisting that we’d like everything a little more if we thought of all our anime as [...]

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Geass is over!

Shout it from the rooftops! For now, that is pretty much all. I watched it with beer in hand — and I may have imagined this, but — I think my TV thanked me afterward. Then I had a steak dinner. Then I almost streaked naked through my apartment complex shouting about how Geass is [...]

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