8.9/10

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Season 1 Review

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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Another world, another time, another age. This is the setting for The Dark Crystal: Age of resistance, the ten part Netflix series, prequel to the 1982 film, The Dark Crystal, created by Jim Henson of The Muppets and Sesame Street fame. In the land of Thra, filled with many different creatures and lifeforms, such as the Gelflings, separated into seven different clans, the skeksis, large, birdlike, powerful creatures that rule over Thra. Three Gelflings from three separate races: Rian, a Crystal guard, member of the woodland warrior stonewood clan, Brea, princess of Har’ar, of the pretentious Vapra, and Deet, of the cave-dwelling Grottan clan, all find out the dark secret of the skeksis, and set out to end their terrible rule.

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7.4/10

Sarazanmai Series Review: A Pain in the Shirikodama

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Sarazanmai

One day, Kazuki Yasaka, Toi Kuji, and Enta Jinnai accidentally break the statue of Tokyo’s Asakusa district’s guardian deity. This act awakens the long sleeping prince of the Kappa Kingdom who immediately turns the trio into kappas and assigns the boys a mission. In Asakusa, people have been turning into mysterious zombie-like creatures, and to break the spell, Kazuki, Toi, and Enta, in their kappa forms, must retrieve the transformed person’s shirikodama. Unfortunately, obtaining a shirikodama requires one of the three to reveal a secret of their own.

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