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Review: Kantaro – The Sweet Tooth Salaryman

13 June 202015 May 2020 by Mac Salman

Kantaro The Sweet Tooth Salaryman: review on Tokyo Authority

Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman, the over-the-top musical dramedy-cum-food porn, is offbeat, bizarre and delightful and makes for ultimate lockdown viewing. How can one begin to describe the insanity that is Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman? Each of the 12 episodes is just over …

Dragon Ball in the Time of COVID-19

22 May 202012 May 2020 by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

Lessons from Dragon Ball? What can we learn from a nearly forty-year-old anime filled with political incorrectness that was conceived at the peak of Japan’s careening economic boom, before the country’s decades-long economic slump, before the internet, 9/11, 3/11, and before the coronavirus? It …