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The Other Side of Animation 33: Japanese Animation Month: Short Peace Review

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(If you like what you see, you can go to camseyeview.biz to see more of my work on video game reviews, editorials, lists, Kickstarters, developer interviews, and review/talk about animated films. If you would like, consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com. It would help support my work, and keeps the website up. Thanks for checking out my work, and I hope you like this review!) WARNING/PARENTAL HEADS UP: There is female nudity and violence in this movie. Parental Discretion is advised. Hope you enjoy the review! Well, I might as well get another Katsuhiro Otomo film project under Japanese Animation Month. I mean, yes, I will be tackling Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Hosoda in the future, but for now, let’s take a look at Otomo’s most recent film project known as Short Peace . This anthology film was released back in 2013, and was brought over to the states by Sentai Filmworks. It got some publicity because one of the shorts, Possessions , was nominated for an Oscar for best anima

The Other Side of Animation 32: Japanese Animation Month: A Letter to Momo Review

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(If you like what you see, you can go to camseyeview.biz to see more of my work on video game reviews, editorials, lists, Kickstarters, developer interviews, and review/talk about animated films. If you would like, consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com. It would help support my work, and keeps the website up. Thanks for checking out my work, and I hope you like this review!) For me, I always like to see what kind of project a director is working on, and see how it will differ from his or her last film. For example, today’s review is of a film directed by an individual named Hiroyuki Okiura. This Japanese director has been in the industry since the early 1980s. If you are into the big anime film scene, you would know his work as the director of the dark and gritty Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade . He is also credited for other anime, like Record of the Lodoss War , Hashire Melos! , Venus Wars , Patlabor: The Movie , Roujin Z , Memories , Blood: The Last Vampire , Metropolis , and

The Other Side of Animation 31: Japanese Animation Month: REDLINE Review

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(If you like what you see, you can go to camseyeview.biz to see more of my work on video game reviews, editorials, lists, Kickstarters, developer interviews, and review/talk about animated films. If you would like, consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com. It would help support my work, and keeps the website up. Thanks for checking out my work, and I hope you like this review!) WARNING/PARENTAL HEADS UP: There is some female nudity and crude language. Viewer’s discretion is advised. Here we go! It’s the beginning of Japanese Animation Month! Say what you will about the huge amount of schlocky anime that you see come out of the land of the rising sun, but when they put their creative foot down on the pedal, they will speed by you with some of the best animated experiences to come out from there. Seriously, think about it. How many iconic animated films have come out from Japan? You have films like Akira , Ninja Scroll , Robot Carnival , Memories , Castle in the Sky , Porco Ros