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The Daughter's War review
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The Daughter's War is a sort-of prequel to The Blacktongue Thief, focusing entirely on Galva and filling in her backstory. It's a good novel, with a bunch of fun characters and a bit worldbuilding, but it also feels a bit like a filler story relative to The Blacktongue Thief.
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Berserk vol 4 review
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Volume 4 is the best volume of Berserk yet. We learn more of Guts' tragic backstory, and finally move the story into the familiar territory of the 90s anime that I've seen a few episodes of.
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The Will of the Many review
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The Will of the Many is a good novel and a great start to a series that I think mostly lives up to the massive hype around it.
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Berserk vol 3 review
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Berserk really starts to hit its stride in this third volume. We finally confirm that the story being told so far is actually somewhere in the middle - or near the end - of the plot, and we get some nice scenes showing Guts' origin story.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) review
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What an absolutely fun, funny, and wildly imaginative movie. Made with stop-motion and weird little animal figures, Fantastic Mr. Fox is an excellent animated film.
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988) review
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Grave of the Fireflies is an unrelenting, beautiful portrayal of the horrors of war and a child's loss of innocence, and is a huge tonal shift from my only other Studio Ghibli experience, My Neighbor Totoro.
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