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Belle Is a Sumptuous, Unflinchingly Optimistic View of Our Digital Future
It’s hard not to be pessimistic about the internet these days. From big tech companies’ capitalistic stranglehold on its structure to toxic online harassment, from adjacent ideas like the depressingly corporate metaverse trend to NFTs burning away the planet in the name of some ugly cartoon apes — it all feels like the bright digital…
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Behold Mamoru Hosoda’s New Anime Film Belle, Which Looks Both Bold and Beautiful
If you’ve seen The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, or Wolf Children, you know a Mamoru Hosoda film is something to get excited about. This gorgeous trailer for Hosoda’s upcoming movie Belle, a.k.a. Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime, will do absolutely nothing to dispel you of this notion.