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Three Mini-Reviews of Cartoon Films

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Sometime in the last few weeks, I decided to create a Letterboxd list of all the feature-length films I’ve seen so far in the year of arlord 2025, and even rank them for the hell of it. Although I haven’t been writing much lately about films, nevermind cartoons, I’ve managed to do pretty okay at …

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Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996 – Dir: Shigeyasu Yamauchi): A Cartoon Review

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(Writer’s note: I’d originally written this around the end of March 2024, but a technical issue with the site meant I wasn’t able to upload this in time. I’d posted it on my personal blog until that had been cleared up, with the hope that I might be able to write something else in the …

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Looking back at Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return! (Part Two)

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Last time on Cartoon Milk, I wrote about the 2008 Dragon Ball short film Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!, as a way of celebrating its 15th anniversary. I had written quite a lot of thoughts, but in trying to make for a more coherent article, I ended up with a review that left …

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Looking back at Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return! (Part One)

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The passage of time has a funny way of synching things up. It’s the year 2023, meaning that I’ve been a fan of Dragon Ball for a little over 15 years now. It’s also the 15th anniversary of the 2008 Dragon Ball short film “Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!”, which I haven’t seen …

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Best Animation I Watched in 2022

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The first article by guest writer MalcmanIsHere, featuring many cartoon recommendations!