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Anime

  • From 007 to Gogol 13

    From 007 to Gogol 13

    How James Bond Became Japan’s Most Stoic Hitman Golgo 13 was (is) a long-running Japanese comic book aimed primarily at bitter guys in dead-end salaryman jobs who harbored daydreams of being tough-as-nails murderous sex machines but, in reality, were just… more ›

  • Karate-Robo Zaborgar

    Karate-Robo Zaborgar

    Karate Robo Zaborgar presented me with the sort of soul-searching conflict that often plagues those of us who worry about the higher philosophical questions in life. On the one hand, it was a presumably loving spoof of one of my… more ›

  • Yatterman

    Yatterman

    Maverick director Takashi Miike takes on 1970s anime Yatterman is a colorful, overblown, largely idiotic live-action adaptation of an anime series from 1977. It’s also a painful illustration of every weak point wildly hit-or-miss director Takashi Miike possesses, while at… more ›