A longer trailer with English subtitles was found by my good friend from college, Logan [girl not boy]. It looks like it’s an official release, but I’m not 100% certain, so the link may not stay good. But here it is. I am so excited! I have said before that I haven’t watched the anime nor read the manga, but
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Okay, so I finally got around to watching Evangelion 1.0! I am a big fan of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series and am anxious to watch the “Rebuild” Series (a series of at least three planned movie-length retellings of the story, or more, I’m not really sure about the logistics of the schedule at this time and am too
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Hello again, bloggers! Chani here once more! I am on a roll as of late it seems, doesn’t it? ^_^ Well, yesterday I went to the movie theater and saw the latest Studio Ghibli film… The Secret World of Arrietty, in English, or Kari-gurashi no Arietti (The Borrower Arrietty), in Japanese. It was written by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki along
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I have watched and re-watched this movie, plus I have also re-read the manga [not the entire series, but to a certain point where you can make a fairly decent comparison of the two]. You don’t have to be a fan of the manga to enjoy this feel-good high school love story. That being said, while I did enjoy the
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O.M.G. You know despite the fact that I have never read Kenshin, nor watched the anime, I am totally excited about the live action coming out. Go figure! It’s slated for a spring 2012 release and stars one of my favoritest younger Japanese actors Sato Takeru in the titular role of Kenshin. Takei Emi is also in this movie. I
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Yukari lives in a doldrum life of nothing buy studying and striving for perfection to please her mother. Then enter in the students of Yazawa academy who ask her to be their runway model and life takes a drastic change.
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A man on the run after being falsely accused of murder takes sanctuary in the house of a young blind woman who recently lost her father.
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Mizuki’s life takes a drastic turn when she finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her on her birthday. She gets into an accident and her soul becomes trapped in a house. Will she be saved?
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What to say about this? I am an unabashed Miura Haruma fan and was excited to hear that he was taking on another movie role. This time in the live action adaptation of the popular manga series Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You) by Karuho Shiina. I did like him in Koizora (his first major film role) and I
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I really, really want to see this. I enjoyed the Nana movies and I enjoyed ParaKiss as a manga series, plus it stars Mukai Osamu and Kitagawa Keiko who are two excellent actors. https://youtu.be/VdCVfZAmQC8 That video. The one up there. That’s the teaser for Paradise Kiss. Remember back last August when I mentioned Yazawa Ai’s Paradise Kiss will be made
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