I am going to invoke the authority of both Noriko and the iconic crossed arms stance of Aim for the Top! (or Gunbuster or Top o Nerae! or whatever you feel like) as I say this potentially controversial statement: As a long-time fan of Gunbuster, Diebuster is amazing. There. The deed...
Noriko, the translator at the event (rarely used) worked as a waitress at Peter Cat, the jazz bar owned by HM and his wife. The moderator, John Mullan opened with a story that happened a day before the event. He was in London and was carrying WUBC at a cafe and ordering coffee. ...
Kenji Shimamura has trouble being intimate with his girlfriend Noriko after a lifetime of watching his parents bicker over his fatherâs infidelity. After he spurns her advances, causing her to storm off in an offended rage, he decides itâs time to seek psychological help....
It is telling that, in the closing scenes of Godzilla Minus One, the question posed by the long-suffering (but miraculously surviving) Noriko to the tortured (but also surviving) Shikishima—“Is your war over now?”—goes unanswered, except with a pathetic whimper and a halting nod of the...