Tag: High Fantasy
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My Little Pony: The Movie – Review
I recently watched My Little Pony: The Movie. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is my favourite episodic cartoon, surpassed only by flowing epics like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The characters are deep and complex, the setting is interesting, and the morals are—with the exception of some bad episodes—great. It’s no…
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Stop Calling Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 “The Original”
I explained in my last article some of the reasons I consider the original Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa to be superior to the 2003 anime, whose plot was utterly removed from that of the source material. The 2003 anime does have its fans, though, and that’s completely fine. However, a strange thing happened…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist” Review
For the longest time I was never able to really get into graphic novels of any kind. Even as everyone I knew raved about the latest Batman issue, I just couldn’t force myself to be interested in looking at panel after panel, bubble after bubble. Obviously I’ve always loved reading traditional novels with sentences and…
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“Guardians of Ga’Hoole” Book Series Review
I was really surprised by these books. You see, I made the mistake of watching a film called “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.” The film was awful, and I made the mistake of assuming that the book series the film was based on would be just as bad. Later that year, another…
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Review of Rankin/Bass “The Return of the King” (1980)
This cartoon… This is the one that broke me… I feel drained after watching this. Before there was Peter Jackson, there were three cartoons almost unrelated to one another, and I made the mistake of deciding to review all of them. The first was a children’s animated TV special by Rankin/Bass that removed almost every…
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Top 10 Worst Book-to-Film Adaptations
There’s been some controversy concerning Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit, with some criticizing decisions such as making a three-part movie, the addition of original background characters, and many even pettier complaints. Some have even gone so far as to say that it “wasn’t very true to the source material,” despite staying far truer to…
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Review of Ralph Bakshi’s “The Lord of the Rings” (1978)
Last year I reviewed the 1977 Rankin/Bass cartoon adaptation of The Hobbit. Today I’ll be taking a look at another such cartoon: Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 attempt to bring The Lord of the Rings to the screen. As I did with the Hobbit cartoon—and as I’m planning to do with the final instalment in the cartoon…
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How My Little Pony Became Great
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is my favourite show of the decade so far. I don’t think anyone expected when the first generation of My Little Pony aired in the ‘80s that it would eventually become a great show, but miraculously it managed it, proving that good writing can accomplish anything. In this article,…
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Sexism in One Piece
There’s nothing more certain to draw masses of ire than the criticism of a well-liked show. That said, I don’t really have much choice in the matter, as I could not ignore such blatant sexism as one finds in the nineteenth episode of the show One Piece. First of all, I have heard that the…
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“The Twelve Kingdoms” Anime Review
I recently decided that, just for the fun of seeing what would happen, I’d randomly decide on an anime I’d never heard of and watch it from start to finish. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped. I mean, I do have quite a lot to say about it, but the…