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Like an Engine
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A Girl Like Me
Carries a strong pull into anime through South Asia.
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Like a Virgin
Carries a strong pull into anime through South Asia.
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Blue Spring Ride
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and South Asia.
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Princess Tutu
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Siddhartha
1920s
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
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Like a Virgin
1980s
Like a Virgin is a 1984 album associated with Madonna and Sire. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Blue Spring Ride
2010s
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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Like a Prayer
1980s
Like a Prayer is a 1989 album associated with Madonna and Sire. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Anime 2010s
March Comes in Like a Lion
A teenage shogi prodigy battles loneliness and depression. Found family and quiet resilience.
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Music 2000s
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Four movements of orchestral post-rock. The apocalypse rendered beautiful.
Anime 2000s
Princess Tutu
In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...
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A Girl Like Me
A Girl Like Me is a 2006 album associated with Rihanna and Def Jam Recordings. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.