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Movie Review: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

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Movie Review: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

ET: The Extra Terrestrial and the blu-ray from Netflix had a lot of interviews and special features that told a lot about how the film was produced. I remember seeing it several times in the theater in the early 1980s. I saw it in the initial run with my parents, but during the summer camp film series, ET was featured for several years. Then I saw it on TV a couple of times in the 1990s. I think it's safe to say that I haven't seen it for more than 20 years. I had forgotten quite a few of the...

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Anime Review: Missing Hiromi Tsuru for nearly two years.

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Anime Review: Missing Hiromi Tsuru for nearly two years.

Throwback post from our Facebook page in 2018. Tomorrow's episode of Dragon Ball Super episode 128 will feature the final recording of Hiromi Tsuru as Bulma. As we all mourned the death of our beloved voice actress Hiromi Tsuru three months ago; this final appearance of Bulma is bittersweet. In this article, the official statement from Toei Animation via the Official Dragon Ball Super social media accounts, Aya Hisakawa has been confirmed as the new voice for Bulma in future movies and Dragon Ball series. Aya Hisakawa is well known among the Anime community as Sailor Mercury and Kero from...

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Kitty in the Box website is more than a year old!

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Kitty in the Box website is more than a year old!

Throwback post from our Facebook page dated January 9, 2019. Good evening boys and girls, kitties of all ages, we are pleased to present our new website.Please visit us now at http://www.kitty-box.comShare with your friends, family, and fellow Otakus.We are still adding products and enhancing the web site experience but the page is live and we are accepting orders.We have also partnered with carefully vetted suppliers to offer more products than we are currently capable of the stocking.

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Manga Review: Auto Maton

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Manga Review: Auto Maton

Keep your eyes out for this. It's surging in popularity in Japan and should be translated into English soon. It's like a fusion of Ghost in the Shell and Iron Man. The protagonist, Akira, fights as a superhero by uploading his consciousness into a powerful humanoid robot. It's done by the creator of the Journey to the Center of the Earth manga adaptation so you can expect rich details in the artwork interspersed with intense action scenes. In spite of being a sci-fi manga, the mangaka is choosing to hand-draw everything rather than using digital drawing to keep an organic...

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Anime Review: 3-Gatsu No Lion (March comes in like a lion)

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Anime Review: 3-Gatsu No Lion (March comes in like a lion)

I just finished 3 Gatsu no Lion (March comes in like a Lion) and I think it's one of the most powerful slices of life series that I've ever seen. There's no supernatural, no superpowers, no fantasy, everything is very raw and realistic. People struggling and persevering, the melancholic mood is punctuated with the characters celebrating the small victories of life. Rei, the main character, is a 2nd-year high school student who has been a professional shogi player since middle school. His father died when he was very young and Rei was then adopted by his father's best friend who...

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