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by Paul Thomas Chapman
A tsunami of recent nostalgia releases is wreaking havoc with my Vault of Error. I planned to review Demon City Shinjuku , but that title is once...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
A decade is missing. Ten years. One tenth of a century. One seventh of my median life expectancy. Where has the time gone? Has it really been so ...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
The used anime section is a cultural wasteland. Younger anime fans may not remember the days when anime on American home video didn’t generally c...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
I don’t know what strange stream of consciousness led me to think about the Streamline Pictures trailer reel with its oh-so-smooth narrator promi...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I used to be a collector. Not in the sense that I simply owned a collection—I still do—but in the sense that ...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
Orbital battle stations! Improbable, insectoid mecha! C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate! Dangers, drama, explosions! None o...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
Halloween comes but once a year, and what better way to celebrate the bewitching season than with an anime about things that go bump in the night...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
One does not care to acknowledge the mistakes of one’s youth. I admit it. I cosplayed once, back in the days when all you needed to pretend to be...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
Many years ago, when I was a lowly assistant-manager-in-training at Video USA Store #16 in Tarpon Springs, Florida, my supervisor, Stacy, once to...
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by Paul Thomas Chapman
Ranma ½ used to mean something. It was a cornerstone of my early anime fandom, a show that hearkened back to an age long before high-speed Intern...
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