anime review
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The Perfect Insider Is A Locked-Room Mystery For The Digital Age
On a small island, a brilliant computer programmer has spent the last 15 years of her life confined to her small apartment in a high tech research lab. In that time, no one has entered or left — until the day her armless, legless, wedding dress-clad corpse comes rolling out of her room.
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Words Can Hurt Far More Than Sticks And Stones
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is one of the most depressing and yet ultimately uplifting anime series out there. And now its creators are back to tell you a story about how hurtful words can be in the modern-day fairy tale Anthem of the Heart.
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Code Geass Is A Complex Morality Play With Mecha And Super Powers
Last month, the newest in a series of midquels to critically acclaimed 2006 anime Code Geass, called Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, aired in Japanese theatres. I saw the preview and it piqued my interest, but there was one small problem: I’d never seen Code Geass. So a few weeks back, I sat about fixing…
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It’s Haruhi, But With Way Less Sci-Fi Craziness
So, did you ever think that the wildly popular anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya would be better as a by-the-numbers cutesy romance? Then The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan was tailor made for you.