Brianna Fox-Priest

We here at Sprudge are no strangers to the video game series Coffee Talk, from Toge Productions. We’ve covered the first two games in the series and have been eagerly waiting for the latest edition, Coffee Talk Tokyo. And when it comes to video games, the track record shows, I’ve played more quirky Japanese coffee games than coffee simulators, so to be passed the baton to cover this episode is a great honor to review.

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Four years in the making and during a worldwide COVID pandemic, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda returns to the big screen with his latest animated film, Scarlet. Now in theaters, Scarlet from Hosoda’s animation studio, Studio Chizu, is a modern-day reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hosoda’s use of classical stories as inspiration is a signature of his works, but one as dark as Hamlet is new.