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April 27, 2024
Jme My List management
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If a show on Jme TV is in a series, the series can be removed from the queue ("My List"). But for movies and series listed as sta...
April 24, 2024
The Amakusa Church
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As with Index Librorum Prohibitorum , the title character of A Certain Magical Index , many of the seemingly farfetched religious referenc...
April 17, 2024
A certain anime franchise
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As I mention in my review of Little Witch Academia , the philosophical and legal dilemmas at the center of Captain America: Civil War and ...
April 13, 2024
Apron
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Making the most of her unique ability to speak to remnants of the dead, Donna Howard researches the provenance of art and antiques. This tim...
April 10, 2024
Christianity is cool
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In Japan, that is. All the more surprising considering that Christians constitute at best one percent of the population. Or perhaps that sim...
April 06, 2024
Coin
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It's 1995 and Donna Howard is living an ordinary life in Portland, Maine. She works as a hairdresser, has a boring boyfriend, two opinio...
April 03, 2024
The Real Darcy
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Besides the badness of the writing, Kate argues that the biggest problem with Pride and Prejudice fan fiction (commercially published or o...
March 30, 2024
Angel Beats
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Jun Maeda turned the visual novel game studio Key VisualArts into a synonym for true-to-life melodramas infused with a large dollop of m...
March 27, 2024
That's Edutainment!
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"Is Japanese Television a Tool for Establishing Social Order?" asks Erik Luebs . Yes, but he mostly avoids the sort of academic na...
March 23, 2024
Jme TV (NHK World Premium)
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In its announcement for the Jme TV streaming service, NHK Cosmomedia said that "We are planning to add new features [starting in] Apri...
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March 20, 2024
The show business panda
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This Wikipedia article about the tarento (タレント) and talent agency system in Japan includes a smart quote by the gaijin tarento (外人タレント) D...
March 16, 2024
Big Gold Bullion
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During the last days of the Shogunate, the paranoid patriarch of the Miyase clan, once one of the five wealthiest men in old Edo, sold all o...
March 13, 2024
The Space Alien
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The year is 1953. The Korean War is winding down. The Cold War is heating up. The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb the year b...
March 06, 2024
The Bronze Devil
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A thief is on the loose in Tokyo, a smash and grab artist that targets high-end jewelry stores and steals only rare and valuable watches and...
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