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Sound! Euphonium is the latest anime from Kyoto Animation, and if I were to describe it in one word it would be beautiful. First-off. Let me come out and say that this Anime may not be for everybody. It is about a concert band and unless you have been in a choir or a band, you will find it hard to relate to the activities that happen on screen. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it is completely un-relatable, it is just that you will have a deeper connection if you have been part of one. The story follows Oumae Kumiko as she joins concert band in high school as a Euphonium player and while it is a series that is very musical, the band is just a setting for all the drama and the character building that happens throughout the series. AS the series progresses, we meet a ton of characters of like Asuka Tanaka, Natsuki Nakagawa, Midore Kawashima, Hazuki Katou, and most importantly Reina Kousaka. A huge chunk, and perhaps all of the first season is devoted to the relationship b...

Yuri in Ice, apart from being an amazing love letter to the world of Figure skating, is one of the best Anime series to come out in the past year. There is so much I want to say about the series but I am afraid of ruining it for anyone who decides to watch it after reading this review. So before I go into a small discussion about the series I do recommend you go and watch it for it is a brilliant piece of art. Yuri on Ice follows Yuri the Japanese National Figure skater after his loss in the World Grand Prix Skating event and how the winner Viktor, a Russian Skater, after seeing one of his routines decides to retire for the next season and coach him. What I told you here is the bare minimum in terms of the plot. Using this simple premise Studio Mappa has managed to construct a beautiful show about Ice Skating, Personal Growth, Drama and Romance. Each and every character in the series has a brilliantly written arc and when you compare the characters they were when they are...

I generally don’t review Indian films, partly because I don’t watch a lot of them and mostly because a lot of them don’t appeal to me. But once in a while a film comes along and blows everything out of the water, with its amazing production and incredible acting, intricate story, flawless pacing and complex story arcs. While Dangal does not tick all the categories completely, it is still the best Indian big budget film that I have seen in a long time and definitely one of the best sports films that I have seen both from Bollywood and Hollywood. Since this is not my normal review I will split it into two simple parts, things that I liked about the film and things that I didn’t like about the film. Before you go any further I do want to warn you that I will be getting into some light spoilers but nothing that can’t be found in the trailer and since it follows a true story we all knows how it is going to end, so I think that it is the experience of watching the film that matters...

I am going to start this post by saying that while the title may be vague, by the end of this post you will understand what it means to me. Around a week back, I had a conversation with one of my closest friends and it was about game series; especially one in particular, Mass Effect. I was talking to him about how it, is one of those things that, transcends its flaws and how it has become such an integral part of how I experience games and stories in general. I described it to him like this; Mass Effect is the series that I want to experience again for the first time. This got me thinking about how much we value our first experiences, be it physical or emotional or intellectual. We have this certain weight attached to our “First Time”. We are living in a world of sensory overload. We experience new and old things left right and center and as time goes on we get desensitized to a lot of them. But once in a while something comes along and it makes us sit up and makes us feel th...

My Mom and I started watching The Crown , A Netflix original Series, about a week back and it will be an understatement if I say that I was blown away by the cinematography and the visuals. Right from the first episode it was apparent that a lot of work went into what was, in essence, a TV Series and this got me thinking if India has something akin to some of the TV series which are produced abroad. If you are even a little bit familiar with what plays on Indian channels as series/serials, then I am sure that you know where this post is going. I really want to go on a rant about how bad everything is in the Indian entertainment industry. I really do. But I have a feeling it will be recycled material, so what I thought I would do, is I will compare some of the techniques foreign TV series and even filmmakers adopt that make a lot of them seem that much more refined. I will be limiting myself to the small screen for the sake of consistency, but I am sure that a few of these e...