meta: The Nuclear Age
2018
'AKIRA' At 30-Something: The Manga At The End Of The World October 16, 2018
On having a reckoning with the god-emperor of modern manga, in a restored English-language edition at last
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'The Man Who Stole The Sun': I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Now What? June 01, 2018
Almost forty years later, this jet-black comedy about a one-man nuclear terrorist ring remains an absurdist masterwork
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2015
'Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade': I Therefore Am No Beast February 09, 2015
The best Mamoru Oshii film that Oshii never directed remains affecting and relevant fifteen years later
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2014
The Long Shadow Of The Mushroom Cloud August 08, 2014
The legacy of the bomb in Japanese history has been confronted endlessly in entertainment, but that shouldn't be the only way we confront it
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2013
'AKIRA' At 25 December 02, 2013
How the anime that created an English-speaking audience for anime still divides those very same audiences decades later
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