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Your Forma SERIES PREMIERE
2025-05-12 02:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
How would you rate episode 1 of Your Forma ? Community score: 3.2 How would you rate episode 2 of Your Forma ? Community score: 3.4 How would you rate episode 3 of Your Forma ? Community score: 3.5 As a writer, I believe beginnings are important. A good beginning hooks the reader (or viewer), introducing the world and characters in efficient and entertaining fashion, providing context for the rest of the story to build upon. Clearly the producers of light novel anime adaptation Your Forma hold different opinions, and I'm not one hundred percent convinced they're correct. Much like last season's cursed Übel Blatt, Your Forma elects to excise the entire first novel volume, dumping the hapless viewer in media res, when the original story wasn't written thus. Imagine if Peter Jackson decided to forgo The Fellowship of the Ring's slow build-up, deciding instead to jump straight to the meat of The TwoTowers? No matter how excellent the film-maker's craft, the viewer's experience would suffer...
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China's Xi urges Vietnam to oppose 'bullying' as Trump mulls more tariffs
2025-05-11 23:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
15 April 2025Annabelle LiangBusiness reporterGetty ImagesChina's President Xi Jinping has called on Vietnam to oppose "unilateral bullying" to upkeep a global system of free trade - though he stopped short of naming the US.It comes as Xi is on a so called "charm offensive" trip across South East Asia, which will also see him visit Malaysia and Cambodia.Though the trip was long-planned, it has taken on heightened significance in the wake of a mounting trade war between the US and China. Vietnam was facing US tariffs of up to 46% before the Trump administration issued a 90-day pause last week.US President Donald Trump called Xi's meeting with Vietnamese leaders a ploy to figure out how to "screw the United States of America".According to state media outlet Xinhua, Xi told Vietnam's Communist Party Secretary-General To Lam to "jointly oppose unilateral bullying"."We must strengthen strategic resolve... and uphold the stability of the global free trade system as well as industrial and supp...
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Pope Francis died from a stroke followed by heart failure, Vatican says
2025-05-11 23:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Pope Francis died of a stroke and subsequent heart failure, the Vatican has said in a statement, revealing that the pontiff had requested to be buried in a simple, unadorned tomb.The 88-year-old pope, revered by millions of Catholics around the world, died at 7.35am in his apartment at Casa Santa Marta on Monday. His cause of death was confirmed through an ECG test, the Vatican said.Francis, who twice almost died when hospitalised with severe pneumonia in February, also suffered from multiple bronchiectasis, arterial hypertension and type 2 diabetes.The pope confirmed in his will that he wished to be buried at Santa Maria Maggiore church in Romes Esquilino neighbourhood, breaking with longstanding Vatican tradition. He would pray at the basilica before and after trips overseas, and last visited on 12 April.The text of his will specified that Francis wanted to be buried in the ground, without particular decoration but with the inscription of his papal name in Latin: Franciscus.Popes...
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