Blue Eye Samurai

Blue Eye Samurai

Blue Eye Samurai What happens when you combine titles like “Yentl,” “Kill Bill,” “John Wick,” “Game of Thrones,” “Mulan” and “The Witcher,” John Woo and Tarantino, and wrap it in the wafer of medieval Japan and phenomenal animation? You get a real juicy cake with a base of cookies, chocolate and vanilla filling into which…

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Katanagatari

Katanagatari There are some series that are truly specific in every respect, and because of that draw you into their world. One such series is “Katanagatari” (or in translation “Sword Story” or “Tale of Swords”). Meet an unusual duo wandering Japan somewhere during the Edo period (1603-1868). Togame is a self-proclaimed “Strategist,” one eccentric and…

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Rurouni Kenshin

Rurouni Kenshin Sanosuke Sagara (Zanza): [about Kenshin] “Give him a sword and he’s unstoppable, but give him a bail of rice and he’s just an ordinary guy.” I adore “Rurouni Kenshin” (Americanized as “Samurai X”). For me this is not only one of the best anime titles, but also a series in general. Of course,…

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion “If Neon Genesis Evangelion were a person, I would need serious professional help after working with them” – Sigmund Freud (Viennese neurologist, considered the father of modern psychotherapy)   Saying that “Neon Genesis Evangelion” is a serious mindfuck wouldn’t be an exaggeration. Although the series came out almost 28 years ago, this…

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Cyberpunk Edgerunners “Cyberpunk Edgerunners” (at least I had that impression) just suddenly appeared on Netflix. If there was any hype around its announcement, I missed it. However, this isn’t bad news. Just as it unexpectedly appeared, it also (somewhat unexpectedly) won the sympathy of audiences and film critics. The series is set in the world…

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Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo Simply, there are some series creators who are auteurs in the true sense of the word. They know how to make a good thing and that’s that. Shinichirō Watanabe is one of those people. If he wants to make a good anime, he has things he won’t give up on. It must deal…

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Cowboy Bebop (Netflix)

Cowboy Bebop (Netflix) This might sound like a cliché, but I had a feeling that “Cowboy Bebop Netflix” (let’s christen the 2021 Netflix version this way) wouldn’t be a faithful adaptation of the original legendary 1998 anime series of the same name. Maybe because I was influenced by the film (trilogy/pentalogy) adaptation of the equally…

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Star Wars Visions

  There are series and films you didn’t even know you wanted to watch and would have loved to see them even be made… until the moment they appear, and then you watch them with pleasure and say “how didn’t they think to do this earlier.” And so brilliant anthology series like “Love, Death and…

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Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop “Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake and I lost it in an accident. Since then, in one eye I see the past and in the other the present. And because of that I thought I could only see pieces of reality, never the whole picture” – Spike Spiegel…

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Devil May Cry

Devil May Cry There are people in this world – real or fictional – who are simply cool no matter what they do or where they show up. Morgan Freeman could narrate a documentary about potato cultivation, and you’d still somehow feel like you just experienced God or enlightenment (and the documentary would win at…

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