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Major Motoko Kusanagi in the anime film Ghost in the Shell

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Stratagems for Uplifting the Downtrodden With Ya Boy Kongming!

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Magical Princess Minky Momo

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Earthquakes, Magical Girls, and Modern Mythology: The Death of Minky Momo

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Image from the anime series Hell's Paradise

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Beast Humane, Beauty Grotesque: The Compelling Contradictions of Hell’s Paradise

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

TPG 2026 • Site Credit