Mirai no Mirai — I See Crying Children in Your Future
Seems I always have to take a pee during Hosoda Mamoru’s bad movies. The first “bad” Hosoda flick I saw was Summer Wars, which resulted in me ducking out in the middle to take a leak. With Mirai no Mirai, I held out until the end credits to...
O.L.H. From 2016 to 2017—A Year of Filth
My favorite sordid Japanese R&B band Only Love Hurts (née Omokage Lucky Hole) was pretty busy over this past year, putting on a grand total of five shows between mid-2016 and mid-2017. I could unfortunately only make it to just four of these performances, as one was in the...
Kizumonogatari III: The Final Battle
Originally planned for release in Autumn of 2012, the completion of the Kizumonogatari saga has finally come to pass in this bright new year of 2017 with the release of Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu. With this film being the trilogy’s grand finale, it’s very difficult to examine it without revealing key...