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Attack on Titan꞉ Counter Rockets - (2015 show) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4573582/
https://pc.video.dmkt-sp.jp/ft/s0000778

Descendants of an apocalypse by monsters remained walled in their defences.

A prequel and backstory to the movie.

  • Original title: Shingeki no kyojin Attack on Titan: Hangeki no noroshi



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Attack on Titan - (2015 movie) part 1 poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072230/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4294052/
was attackontitanthemovie.com

Descendants of an apocalypse by monsters remained walled in their defences.

Brutal and riveting. Really great, but it's actually quite scarring so you want to be good in life before watching this.



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Bartender꞉ Glass of God - (2024 show) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29233201/
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/bartender/index.html

A Sherlock Holmes of a bartender makes drinks they like.

Uh. Why?

  • Original title: Bartender: Kami no Glass



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21209876/
https://www.sololeveling.com/
https://sololeveling-anime.net/

Mysterious gates bring monsters into the world, but people develop superpowers and one previously-worthless combatant becomes incredible.

Pretty good so far.

  • Original title: Ore dake Level Up na Ken
  • The origin is Korean, but this is a Japanese endeavour.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27417996/
https://www.iseleve.com/

An ugly, unaccomplished, student discovers a hidden world within which he becomes a hero and transforms himself in that and the real world.

It might be quite good, but because the main character is superpowered it's a pretty shitty story angle; not recommended.

  • aka / properly titled: I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too
  • Note that every episode has an end-credit scene.
  • A second season has been confirmed



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John Wick꞉ Chapter 4 - (2023 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366206/
https://johnwick.movie/film/john-wick-4

John Wick returns to alternately ruin and end his friends lives in the hopes of leveraging an obscure rule to free himself from .. whatever their assassins society is called.

It's adequate, but has nowhere near equality: I think one unimportant woman dies on-screen and then the body vanishes, another gets hurt, and this has to be the most brutally misandrist movie I've ever seen. Feminist approved!


Ichi - (2008 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060256/
https://warnerbros.co.jp/home_entertainment/detail.php?title_id=2569/ (.jap)

A blind woman travels to find a blind man, and becomes embroiled in an inn-town's troubles.

Straightforward and wholesome; highly recommended.



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Princess Mononoke - (1997 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/
https://www.ghibli.jp/works/mononoke/
was movies.disney.com/princess-mononoke (purged)

Servants of the emperor wage war with ancient gods to dominate the land for iron, forcing innocents into the crossfire, but a prince of a lost tribe adventures to save himself and the land from the resulting curse.

Throughout the movie, there are men used as comedic relief and women as brave and smart.



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I Am a Hero - (2015 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3775202/
https://avex.jp/iamahero/
was toho.co.jp/movie/lineup/iamahero-movie.html/

A zombie apocalypse fells Japan and it's up to an almost-NEET everyman to mostly save a couple of people.

A straightforward and largely unsurprising movie; fine for wasting some time.



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Unforgiven - (2013 movie) poster .jap

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347134/
https://warnerbros.co.jp/home_entertainment/detail.php?title_id=3946/

A whore gets her face cut up, and a bounty is put on the heads of the two responsible.

Boring as hell; I couldn't get into it.



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