Drama
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the drama genre.
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Parasyte: The Maxim
A chimerical monstrosity of horror, drama, mystery, sci-fi, and thrills, ‘Parasyte: The Maxim’ somehow manages to excel at all of them. (read more)
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Charcoal Feather Federation
Charcoal Feather Federation is another anime honored with the creative footprint of Yoshitoshi Abe, which depicts daily life in a mysterious, ethereal, and isolated fantasy world. (read more)
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Casshern Sins
Casshern Sins reimagines the ’70s superhero children’s series as a beautifully animated, starkly nihilistic tone piece. The immortal Casshern wanders a diseased, post-apocalyptic wasteland, encountering those who must grapple with their impending death. (read more)
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Pendulum
Pendulum is a short film that captures the sensation of suppressing emotions until they rupture and hurt those closest to us. A decent watch set to a song by Muse. (read more)
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Puella Magi Madoka★Magica
While its production values are phenomenal, ‘Puella Magi Madoka★Magica’ can’t help itself from overindulging on its premise, making some would-be emotional moments overly-dramatic and silly. (read more)
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Texhnolyze
Texhnolyze is a dystopian sci-fi treatise about the end of humanity—not from self-destruction, but a slow degradation into nihilism stemming from a lack of purpose, drive, and ingenuity. What happens if we simply fade out instead of burn away? (read more)
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The Flowers of Evil
Albeit not a substitute for Shuzo Oshimi’s incredible manga, The Flowers of Evil stylistically captures the anxiety and internalized disgust that emerge during pubescence’s discovery of sexuality. (read more)
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The House of Small Cubes
This short story with a common theme of aging and taking for granted what one has lost is elevated by its animation style, which bares characteristics of French animation. (read more)
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Chihayafull
‘Chihayafull’ is the best anime you could possibly make about a game with arguably less depth than Pogs… unfortunately, it’s still "about" that game. (read more)
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Kids on the Slope
‘Kids on the Slope’ is a coming-of-age drama. Two teens with opposing personalities bond over the power of music. Only held back by melodrama. (read more)