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2021 June

• Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

  

  Earlier today I watched Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021), now out on Netflix (PH, not sure about elsewhere). I don't normally do full blog posts for movies anymore, but I'm a big Rurouni Kenshin fan, and I didn't have much commentary on record for the first three live action films, so I figured I would write some words mostly about this new film, but maybe also a bit about the first three as well. The film is based on a manga story arc from more than 20 years ago, so I'm not really going to be avoiding spoilers here. So

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  Mon, June 21, 2021, 11:26 p.m. / Roy Tang / blog / #movies #anime / Syndicated: mastodon twitter / 801 words

2019 November

• Anime Opening/Ending Themes

  Had a friendly discussion last night about our favorite anime theme music, figured I'd share some of my favorites. J-Pop in general and anime theme music in particular have a kind of energy that you just don't get from Western music. I think that generally I tend to favor those that openings for series that I had a chance to watch on TV (instead of via streaming/online channels), since back in those days I had to sit through the openings! (So most of these are rather old!) Kimi Ga Suki da to Sakebitai from Slam Dunk by Baad: Hohoemi no

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  Mon, Nov. 11, 2019, 1:07 p.m. / Roy Tang / blog / #anime #music / Syndicated: twitter mastodon / 169 words