While I may not be intimately familiar with “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” — an anime franchise adapted from the hit Japanese manga of the same name, which had its latest film top the box office last weekend — I am familiar with a little movie called “The Devil Wears Prada.” Specifically, I often recall one throwaway line that has come to feel very prescient. Viewers might remember the scene where Meryl Streep’s fashion magazine editrix Miranda Priestley purses her lips at one of the ugliest dresses she’s seen in years, during a preview of a designer’s new collection. Just a few moments before, that fictional designer introduces the collection humbly, holding his hands behind his back, saying, “This season really began for me with the meditation on the intersection between East and West.

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