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Gilles (2747 KP) rated Ingress - The Animation in TV
May 10, 2019
Ingress: The Animation (2018)
Ingress (or Ingress: The Animation) is a 2018 Japanese anime television series based on Niantic's augmented reality mobile game of the same name. The story follows special police investigator Makoto, who has the power to read the memories of objects he touches. While investigating a laboratory explosion that was researching an unknown substance called "XM", he touches the ring of a woman who was the sole survivor of the explosion and sees a horrifying vision that embroils him in a massive conspiracy. @IMDb Movies & TV rates it 8/10, I do the same.
Ingress (or Ingress: The Animation) is a 2018 Japanese anime television series based on Niantic's augmented reality mobile game of the same name. The story follows special police investigator Makoto, who has the power to read the memories of objects he touches. While investigating a laboratory explosion that was researching an unknown substance called "XM", he touches the ring of a woman who was the sole survivor of the explosion and sees a horrifying vision that embroils him in a massive conspiracy. @IMDb Movies & TV rates it 8/10, I do the same.
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AT (1676 KP) rated Convenience Store Woman in Books
Feb 4, 2020
Convenience Store Woman is a weird little novel. Granted, Americans have a very different culture than the Japanese when it comes to marriage and jobs. This story follows a strange woman during her years of working at a convenience store, which she loves and does well at. However, the way she is viewed puts stress and panic on her to fit in with society. The story, itself, is quirky, but the main character is an odd duck, herself. Plus, if you're the type of reader that loves to hate characters, this book definitely has one for you!
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Alan Arkin recommended Seven Samurai (1954) in Movies (curated)
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Kim Newman recommended The Living Skeleton (1968) in Movies (curated)
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Kevin Phillipson (9970 KP) rated People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (2021) in Movies
Aug 26, 2021
When I saw this last week I had only watched one episode of the tv show and that was the first episode of series one so going into this movie for me was I going to like the movie first impressions its funny ticked those boxes seeing the boys trying to get used to Japanese culture with hilarious results especially dj Steve's who's purpose on the group seems odd made me laugh with his attempts to woo their intepter anyway overall I should watch the tv show and see what's the fuss is is all about
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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Spirited Away (2001) in Movies
Oct 29, 2019
The greatest animation made
If you haven't seen this just stop. Stop reading this and watch it. It is absolute perfection. It is the only film I watched and then watched it again straight after. No wonder it won an Oscar it is a masterpiece.
Based on Japanese folklore, Spirited Away doesn't treat it's audience dumb like Disney often does. It doesn't limit its imagination, it continues to push it's imagination and concepts to the ones from dreams and becomes hypnotic and beautiful. Go and watch it.
Based on Japanese folklore, Spirited Away doesn't treat it's audience dumb like Disney often does. It doesn't limit its imagination, it continues to push it's imagination and concepts to the ones from dreams and becomes hypnotic and beautiful. Go and watch it.
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Otway93 (567 KP) rated Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 in TV
Nov 4, 2019
Storytelling (3 more)
Characters
Character Development
Little or no plotholes
Went in with doubts, but amazed!
Avatar: The Last Airbender is without a doubt one of the finest shows I've ever seen. As I said, I went in with doubts as it is a children's show, but this is enjoyable for the whole family!
The show contains (in my opinion anyway) some of the finest storytelling in television history, with the story drawing inspiration from Chinese, Japanese, Inuit and Tibetan culture.
The characters are superb, with realistic character development, viewers find themselves getting more and more connected to them as the show goes on.
A beautifully made series and thoroughly enjoyable!
The show contains (in my opinion anyway) some of the finest storytelling in television history, with the story drawing inspiration from Chinese, Japanese, Inuit and Tibetan culture.
The characters are superb, with realistic character development, viewers find themselves getting more and more connected to them as the show goes on.
A beautifully made series and thoroughly enjoyable!
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Dean (6925 KP) rated Midway (2019) in Movies
Nov 15, 2019
Good SFX on the whole (1 more)
Big action scenes
Entertaining WW2 action Film
Well with Roland Emmerich at the helm you should know what to expect from this film. Lots of big budget action scenes and SFX heavy scenes. Going for all guns blazing, quite literally, at the slight expense of any indepth character development. It's good that this also covers the battle from the Japanese perspective. I'm not sure how accurate it is but it is at least based on real people who had key roles in the battle. One definitely to enjoy for the action scenes, especially if seeing in 4DX.
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Sarah (7798 KP) rated Earthquake Bird (2019) in Movies
Nov 17, 2019
Stylish with no substance
Here is yet another disappointing Netflix original. I like Alicia Vikander but sadly even she can’t save this, despite speaking Japanese impressively well. The film looks good and it’s very stylish, with an atmospheric and quite haunting soundtrack. The problem is that the plot is rather dull and even the confused mind of Vikander’s character can’t make it any more interesting. It just comes across as your average thriller with a decent setting, sadly story wise it isn’t anything we haven’t seen before. The ending is maybe slightly unpredictable but not entirely surprising either, and overall just a very uninspired film.
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