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Shinkai Train Delays, Roller-Skating Mechs & Zero Dogs
This week, we trade homework assignments, question the train scheduling efficiency of fictional Japan, and try to understand how a 40-year-old salaryman can't recognize a pair of glasses.
The Damage Report: We put our emotional stability on the line across three wildly different titles this week. First up is Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters per Second, where we debate whether tragic romantic longing is high art or if someone simply forgot that cell phones exist. We also discuss the opening four episodes of Code Geass and the pure tonal whiplash of high-stakes military rebellion colliding with…
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