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The Live-Action ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Is Further Evidence Hollywood Has No Idea How To Adapt Anime

Serdar Yegulalp

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April 20, 2016 0 11

With all the anime/manga projects out there to choose from, why does Hollywood insist on choosing the ones that give it the biggest cultural difficulties?

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Concrete Revolutio

Serdar Yegulalp

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April 6, 2016 0 15

Concrete Revolutio is a sprawling anime answer to Watchmen, with all of the ambition -- and all of the shortcomings -- implied by such a thing.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Night on the Galactic Railroad

Serdar Yegulalp

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March 16, 2016 1 57

I might once have described Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad as Japan's answer to The Little Prince.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Lady Snowblood

Serdar Yegulalp

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February 24, 2016 1 22

A pivotal inspiration for Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', the violent revenge tale Lady Snowblood brings us an anti-heroine who's as much of an outsider for being a woman as she is for being an assassin.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Seven Deadly Sins

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December 16, 2015 0 42

Seven Deadly Sins is so safe, so familiar and so broad in construction that any otaku would feel right at home watching this.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Rurouni Kenshin

Serdar Yegulalp

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December 2, 2015 0 14

When the first film in this live-action trilogy of Rurouni Kenshin is among the very best adaptations yet of an manga/anime property, we can forgive any weaknesses in the whole.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Fullmetal Alchemist

Serdar Yegulalp

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November 11, 2015 0 16

Fullmetal Alchemist deserves more to be seen for where it rethinks and reinterprets, and less for how it deviates from the playbook.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)

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September 23, 2015 0 54

The most pleasant surprise of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is not just how much of an improvement it is over the original film, but how much it also improves upon its source material.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Serdar Yegulalp

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September 9, 2015 1 56

Two impulses are at work within me when discussing the new reissue of the 1985 Vampire Hunter D film.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Robot Carnival (1987)

Serdar Yegulalp

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August 26, 2015 1 33

Robot Carnival is a product of anime from as far removed from our time now as the release of Disney's Sleeping Beauty was from its time.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Inari Kon Kon

Serdar Yegulalp

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August 12, 2015 0 8

Inari Kon Kon is built along that model, and doesn't need to be particularly profound to work.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Knights of Sidonia Season 2

Serdar Yegulalp

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July 22, 2015 0 9

About half of the second season of Knights of Sidonia is in the vein of the best of what the show had to offer in its first season.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Darker Than Black

Serdar Yegulalp

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July 1, 2015 0 7

Darker Than Black first appeared in 2007, not quite long enough ago to either qualify or disqualify for proper status as a classic.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Anime’s (Partly) Crowdfunded Future

Serdar Yegulalp

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June 17, 2015 0 7

Four pieces of news, all eye-opening, all dealing with crowdfunded anime projects passed across my desk in the previous week.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Patlabor: The Movie

Serdar Yegulalp

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May 27, 2015 0 21

Before Mamoru Oshii bent minds with the likes of 'Ghost in the Shell', he tickled ribs with this entry in the action-comedy mecha series.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The King of Pigs

Serdar Yegulalp

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May 13, 2015 3 19

This makes talking about The King of Pigs more difficult; it's harder to separate my analysis of the film from my emotional reactions to it.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Noir

Serdar Yegulalp

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April 22, 2015 0 20

The deliberate pacing of Noir is both its most important attribute and the one thing about it most likely to give pause to today's viewers.

Big Eyes, Smart Mouth: The Eccentric Family

Serdar Yegulalp

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April 8, 2015 0 10

The Eccentric Family is a show that gets it all right: funny, thoughtful, and a cast of characters that never fail to enlist our sympathy.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Serdar Yegulalp

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March 18, 2015 0 8

Isao Takahata's brush-painted picture scroll of a movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, asks where real meaning of any of our lives lies.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Porco Rosso

Serdar Yegulalp

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March 4, 2015 0 45

Porco Rosso appeals more to older children than younger ones , but there's never been a film of theirs that didn't speak to older audiences.

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