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TurningJapanese#3: Your Name 君の名は。

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ILT’s TurningJapanese# series returns with a look at one of the finest anime releases of the modern era…

Your Name
Dir: Makoto Shinkai
Original Release Date: 26 August 2016Follow ILT on twitter @laidbaremedia
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TurningJapanese#2: Ninja Scroll 獣兵衛忍風帖

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ILT’s TurningJapanese# series returns with its first anime retrospect, a bonafide cult classic of the genre that all but made me lose my shit as a teenage fanboy…

Ninja Scroll
Dir: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Original Release Date: 5 June 1993

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