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ATTACK ON TITAN: MORE THAN AN ANIME.

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  Photocredit: Pinterest. Hey, Movie Lover! It's been a while in this genre. Mara's Classic Movie Collection (which I began with the year) has suffered minimum published reviews and heaps of uncredited movies. These days, I just rant about my latest watched(s) on my status updates. So far, the movie industry has been thriving and enjoying good reviews, and frankly, I've been more thrilled than disappointed by 2025's catalogue of culture shifting releases. Photocredit: Game Rant. It's not too late to make an epic comeback with an epic series that is too golden to be simply ranted on. It isn't relatively new but hey, classics are always new. On that note, I give you... ATTACK ON TITAN (前進する巨人) This is an anime written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. What started as a silent manga with blade wielding comic characters soon became a voiced, dubbed and subbed anime. The real name sans interpretation is Shingeki No Kyojin which means literally, The Advancing Giant. ...

SQUID GAME; A REVIEW.

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  Fill my heart with song And let me sing forever more You are all I long for All I worship and adore In other words, let the games begin! ▶️ When we hear South Korea, we tend to think of a haven of small-eyed good-looking Asians wearing turtlenecks and singing to BTS or Black Pink 🎙️ Red light! ❤️ Green light. 💚 We were surprised when Squid Game presented a South Korea much different from what we know or are made to know. Red light! ❤️ Green light . 💚 What if South Korea isn't a paradise? What if it's a country infested with debtors willing to stake their lives for wealth, and sponsors willing to stake a bet for fun? Red light!  Seong Gi-hun is an unfortunate man. He's a gambler living off the income of his mother. His wife left him for another man and took Ga-Yeong, their daughter with her. The streets of South Korea offer no comfort as the streets are haunted by blood thirsty loan sharks. What's worse, Gi-hun is a debtor. Robbed, beaten and hopeless, Gi-hun finds...