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dm
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Adaptations of Alice in wonderland rarely live up to the original (though I have fond memories of a 1930s film version with WC Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle).
Except for Kyousigiga. There’s an adaptatioin that lives up to the original, though it bears little resemblance to it.
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OjaruFan2
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:03 pm |
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I'm really hoping the movie eventually gets a wider Western release. Although I'm aware of Animation Digital Network's European release, no American distributor has been announced yet. The Japanese version can't be found online aside from some official clips on Shochiku's YouTube channel. The Blu-ray/DVD release is scheduled in Japan for March 25, so I'm thinking about watching the movie through that home media release if an American release ends up not happening.
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EmeraldSaucer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:41 pm |
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Komada was similarly mediocre, so this sounds like par for the course for P.A. Works (whose stated release cadence comes across more like making movies to fill out a quota rather than because anybody is particularly inspired to make one)
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Philmister978
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 10:11 pm |
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| EmeraldSaucer wrote: | | Komada was similarly mediocre, so this sounds like par for the course for P.A. Works (whose stated release cadence comes across more like making movies to fill out a quota rather than because anybody is particularly inspired to make one) |
Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me. Though I'd extend that feeling to their TV output too. Of everything from this past decade, at least half of their stuff has been either fallen into "Going through the motions" like Food for the Soul or Auqatope on the White Sand, or "Good in concept, but botched execution" like the Sakuna adaptation, Dusk Beyond the End of the World or The Day I became a God. Even the titles I did like from them like Buddy Daddies, Appare-Ranman and MayoPan had their issues, even if they weren't as severe.
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