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Belle Review: Stylish but Unconvincing

I’ll admit it right away, I’m not the biggest fan of Mamoru Hosoda’s work. They’re really well-made movies with beautiful art and animation but I just don’t connect with them for one reason or another.

I almost feel bad because I usually don’t have any good reasons for that either.

Sure, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Your Name, but I can pinpoint a few things that I felt didn’t work well. With Hosoda’s movies, they’re generally pretty alright, but I just dislike them for reasons I can’t justify properly.

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Getting into the Fate Series for Fun and Profit [UPDATED]

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(Okay, the profit part is a lie but hey, if a weird story about a crazy guy who really hates chairs can lead to one of the biggest media franchises in the world then anything is possible)

Usually, the first thing people know about the Fate series, is that there is a lot of it. The second thing is probably the female King Arthur with more alternate versions than there are Fate spinoffs but we’ll get to it later.

Fate has a reputation for being hard to get into, and it’s not completely unfounded. Between the nonsense titles, different routes within one work, multiple adaptations, and a ton of spin-offs that may or may not have anything to do with the main series, it’s easy to get lost.

Fortunately, it’s easier to get into the series than the memes might suggest. I wouldn’t say it’s ‘easy’ exactly, but its no Kingdom Hearts.

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