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Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Sorry, a rush job on this review of a Japanese animated feature. Bob
Ignizio, white foreign barbarian devil round-eye giant pale ghost (those
are all bona fide racist slurs Japanese use against anglos, unless I'm
much misinformed) dropped this one right on top of me, a review
assignment of the latest release from legendary Nippon animation factory
Studio Ghibli - right in between my binge-watch assignments to go
through two other, more "conventional" anime shows.
So you can
identify with my befuddled state, these were the bookends:
Noir, a
famous 2001 action serial (and, to my eyes, Sergio Leono tribute) about
two winsome young girls working as a lethal international
assassins-for-hire team, who are also puppets in the hands of a
1,000-year-old secret society. The other is
Unlimited Psychic Squad, one
of those sci-fi deals in which telepaths with incredible
mind-superpowers duel like gods in a sort of alternate-history version
of Japan.
