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As the events of the Egghead Island arc come to an end, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is already getting ready for the next installment in the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates. It has been made blatantly obvious by the One Piece narrative that the next arc is the Elbaf arc, and evidently, it is going to be even better than Wano and Egghead.
Usopp in One Piece | Toei Animation
One of the main reasons why the arc is going to be better is because of the importance of Elbaf in the story and in the life of Usopp, the sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates. Usopp has held the desire to visit the Elbaf village since the beginning of the series, and he also wishes to become a great warrior of the sea, just like the giants.
However, its importance brings with it new challenges and enemies that...
Usopp in One Piece | Toei Animation
One of the main reasons why the arc is going to be better is because of the importance of Elbaf in the story and in the life of Usopp, the sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates. Usopp has held the desire to visit the Elbaf village since the beginning of the series, and he also wishes to become a great warrior of the sea, just like the giants.
However, its importance brings with it new challenges and enemies that...
- 5/17/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
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“Keitaro is ready to stop living as a shut-in. He's starting university. He's reconnecting with his childhood friend. He's taking a tutoring job. And he's not messing around with ghosts anymore. At least that's what he thinks, until he finds out the elementary schooler he's tutoring is an occult-obsessed genius who's hunting down dangerous spirits and won't stop until she's found the one that took her mom!” (Viz Media)
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Pure horror manga are few and far between, with many titles labeled as horror divulging into other genres, with a popular choice being shonen. While this makes being a horror nerd difficult to find new titles outside of your Junji Itos, Kazuo Umezuus, or Hideshi Hinos, there are some releases that do mash up the styles successfully–interjecting enough terror to satisfy those cravings while taking shonen tropes and working...
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Pure horror manga are few and far between, with many titles labeled as horror divulging into other genres, with a popular choice being shonen. While this makes being a horror nerd difficult to find new titles outside of your Junji Itos, Kazuo Umezuus, or Hideshi Hinos, there are some releases that do mash up the styles successfully–interjecting enough terror to satisfy those cravings while taking shonen tropes and working...
- 5/10/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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The first highlights of the 23rd Nippon Connection Film Festival are set! From June 6 to 11, 2023, Frankfurt am Main in Germany will once again become the capital of Japanese cinema. For six days, you can immerse yourself in art and cinema from Japan at eight venues. There are around 100 exciting short and feature-length films to discover – from the latest blockbusters and anime to independent and documentary films. A varied supporting program with more than 50 workshops, concerts, lectures and exhibitions as well as a wide range of culinary specialties invite you to experience Japan with all your senses. The two festival centers with cinemas, bars and Japanese market stalls are again the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and the Produktionshaus Naxos in Frankfurt am Main. The complete program and tickets will be available on NipponConnection.com starting May 12, 2023.
Nippon Rising Star Award Goes To Toko Miura!
The star guest of this year’s festival is Toko Miura,...
Nippon Rising Star Award Goes To Toko Miura!
The star guest of this year’s festival is Toko Miura,...
- 4/9/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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Junji Sakamoto’s “Okiku and the World” is not just a period drama, but also feels like period filmmaking. Shot in black and white and a 4:3 aspect ratio, this in some ways feels like a homage to the films of yesteryear. But, with modern technology to hand, this looks divine, despite its subject for the most part being that of human faeces.
Yasuke (Sosuke Ikematsu) works among the rowhouses of the Edo era as a collector of human faeces for sale as fertiliser. A dirty job, he is seen as the lowest of the low. He takes on Chuji (Kanichiro Sato) as a helper as they just about make ends meet. Okiku (Haru Kuroki) is the daughter of a samurai who volunteers at a local temple as a calligraphy teacher. Gradually, she takes a shine to Chuji, despite his lowly status, though tragedy soon comes to her life.
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Yasuke (Sosuke Ikematsu) works among the rowhouses of the Edo era as a collector of human faeces for sale as fertiliser. A dirty job, he is seen as the lowest of the low. He takes on Chuji (Kanichiro Sato) as a helper as they just about make ends meet. Okiku (Haru Kuroki) is the daughter of a samurai who volunteers at a local temple as a calligraphy teacher. Gradually, she takes a shine to Chuji, despite his lowly status, though tragedy soon comes to her life.
Starting...
- 2/24/2023
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
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The film received its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition.
Japan’s Free Stone Productions has sold director Junji Sakamoto’s period drama Okiku And The World to Hugo East for China.
Set in mid-19th-century Edo (now known as Tokyo), the film follows two men who collect waste from tenement toilets to turn into fertilizer to sell on to farmers. When they meet schoolteacher Okiku, the daughter of a fallen samurai, romance ensues but not without its challenges.
Fresh off its world premiere at Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition where the festival noted its “impish humour and...
Japan’s Free Stone Productions has sold director Junji Sakamoto’s period drama Okiku And The World to Hugo East for China.
Set in mid-19th-century Edo (now known as Tokyo), the film follows two men who collect waste from tenement toilets to turn into fertilizer to sell on to farmers. When they meet schoolteacher Okiku, the daughter of a fallen samurai, romance ensues but not without its challenges.
Fresh off its world premiere at Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition where the festival noted its “impish humour and...
- 2/20/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
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When it comes to jidaigeki, most people’s minds conjure images of honour-bound samurai and quaint Edo-era villages. Evidently, director Junji Sakamoto envisions shit-covered peasants and social injustice. With his latest film, “Okiku and the World”, the filmmaker presents a different vision of Japan’s Edo-era than the one we’re used to seeing.
Okiku and the World screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Beginning in the late summer of 1858, we follow Yasuke (Sosuke Ikematsu) and Chuji (Kanichiro), two vagrants who deal in an oddly valuable commodity that Edo’s citizens provide in abundance – human excrement. The pair trek around the city, collecting shit and selling it to farmers as fertiliser. The two manage to find humour in this lowly existence, but that doesn’t free them from poverty. In one of the tenements where Chuji collects manure, a woman named Okiku (Haru Kuroki) is struck by a tragedy that changes her life permanently.
Okiku and the World screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Beginning in the late summer of 1858, we follow Yasuke (Sosuke Ikematsu) and Chuji (Kanichiro), two vagrants who deal in an oddly valuable commodity that Edo’s citizens provide in abundance – human excrement. The pair trek around the city, collecting shit and selling it to farmers as fertiliser. The two manage to find humour in this lowly existence, but that doesn’t free them from poverty. In one of the tenements where Chuji collects manure, a woman named Okiku (Haru Kuroki) is struck by a tragedy that changes her life permanently.
- 2/11/2023
- by Tom Wilmot
- AsianMoviePulse
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Written by T.W. Burgess | Art by Mike O’ Brien, Brian Coldrick, Brianne Neuman, David Romero
Author T.W. Burgess has a reputation for creating brilliantly scary graphic novels and I have loved his previous work. Malevolents, The Eyrie, and Hallows Fell have all been super creepy in a way no other graphic novels I have read can match up to. So I couldn’t wait to read his latest works, Early Haunts.
Early Haunts is an anthology of sorts with four ghostly tales, adapted from the original folk tales that have influenced major and well-known works, and then made into a graphic novel. It’s a fantastic idea and one I thought would have been made before but this seems to be the first of its kind that I know of.
Th first story is ‘The Greek Myth’ – The House In Athens. Which features the first-ever chained apparition and...
Author T.W. Burgess has a reputation for creating brilliantly scary graphic novels and I have loved his previous work. Malevolents, The Eyrie, and Hallows Fell have all been super creepy in a way no other graphic novels I have read can match up to. So I couldn’t wait to read his latest works, Early Haunts.
Early Haunts is an anthology of sorts with four ghostly tales, adapted from the original folk tales that have influenced major and well-known works, and then made into a graphic novel. It’s a fantastic idea and one I thought would have been made before but this seems to be the first of its kind that I know of.
Th first story is ‘The Greek Myth’ – The House In Athens. Which features the first-ever chained apparition and...
- 1/6/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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