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Link Tank: Why Japan Sinks 2020 Perfectly Encapsulates This Year

Japan Sinks 2020, the disaster anime on Netflix, is a perfect encapsulation of this awful year. “Some might feel that a harrowing and hellish vision of the apocalypse in entertainment might be more than they can bear right now — and that’s perfectly understandable. But Pyeon-Gang Ho and Masaaki Yuasa’s Japan Sinks 2020, the latest anime miniseries from Science Saru, is more than worth gritting your teeth and sticking through.” Read more at Thrillist. For those working from home, check out these handy Zoom hacks to make your virtual meetings go easier. “After years of essays, group projects, and corporate…
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Japan Sinks: 2020 Review (Spoiler-Free)

This review is based on all ten half-hour episodes of Japan Sinks: 2020’s first season and contains no spoilers. “Fingers crossed.” Oddly enough, people seem to love the idea of the end of the world. Perhaps there’s comfort to be found in the escape to some alternate apocalypse scenario when the real world feels like it’s spinning off its axis. There’s been a growing trend in apocalypse stories where plucky survivors have to band together, form a family, and survive, whether it’s in movies, anime, or video games. Japan Sinks: 2020 strives to be different by its use of shifting…
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