The first time I came across any media by Makoto Shinkai, it was spring of 2022 and my Japanese class was celebrating the beginning of the season with our quarterly anime watch party. We started it off by watching The Garden of Words and I was instantly in love with the beautiful animation. After that I made it my personal mission to watch as many of his movies as possible
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A spoiler-filled critique of Doctor strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The indie film is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.
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The award-winning manga-anime series thrived despite accusations of anti-Semetic and pro-Nationalist elements in the characters and plot.
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