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Today we cover another movie from Cartoon Saloon, creators of The Secret of Kells and also a lot of other things, some of which - like a short for the Star Wars anthology series Visions - have come out since we covered their first film. Their studio only continues to put interesting and beautiful works out, only continues to become more and more prominent, and yet still it feels like if one were to say the studio's name or the name of one of their movies to a random layperson they'd receive only blank stares in return. They definitely deserve to be better known than they are... but does this particular film support that idea, or is this one a rare dud? Listen to find out!

Some pieces of media — be they cartoon shorts, feature length films, or even whole seasons of television — are worth watching a particular moment. That moment could be as short as a single seconds-long scene or as long as an entire episode, but something about it manages to massively exceed the quality level of the media it's a part of. Today, we have a cartoon that fits this bill... but is the scene in question really good enough to warrant watching the rest of the short? Listen to find out!

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Some movies are known for being massively successful, massively influential, and pillars of their respective genre... and yet also get watched less and less as the years go by, as though knowledge of their reputation is enough and watching the actual film is no longer needed. In many ways, it feels like Akira is one of these movies - frequently mentioned when talking about 'greatest anime movies', but how many fans who started watching anime in the 2000s or 2010s can say they've bothered to go back and watch this film from the late 80s? One might even start wondering if it's worth all the hype. Well, is it? Listen to find out.