It has been a while since I marathoned a show, but this past week, I watched all that I could of the anime known as My Hero Academia. So far this anime is still in the midst of its second season, with likely more to go after it and I’m certainly interested in seeing more…
Disclimer: I know it is not in my usual style to talk about a non-animated film, but since it is so similar to an animated film that I previously wrote about, I figured it would count. This article contains spoilers for Perfect Blue and Black Swan. Read with caution. Also note that the following video…
Tsuritama is a show about fishing in the port town of Enoshima, Japan… No wait, that’s not entirely right. Er, let’s go with this: Tsuritama is about a young boy named Yuki who suffers from severe social anxiety and learns to open up with the help of an eclectic group of friends through fishing in…
The Censored Eleven are a selection of old cartoons that were censored in 1968 due to their racist overtones and their negative depiction of black people. These cartoons form the basis of so many controversial topics ranging from racism to censorship issues to use of parody and the media, that it honestly would take many…
In general, Disney makes good films. And Moana is another in a line of pretty awesome movies that the company has been releasing recently. I feel like lately Disney has been breaking down its own cliches in an extremely on-the-nose, yet strangely refreshing way. First there was Frozen which essentially tore down its “Disney Princess”…
In my last article, I mentioned that Sing was another attempt by Illumination Entertainment to be Pixar, and failing at it, and I still stand by that statement. This to me has been the studio’s major flaw in how it makes it’s animated films. Well, that and the ungodly amount of advertisements and commercialism…
I was on a couple of really long flights recently between Japan and the US, and having several hours worth of time to kill I ended up watching three animated movies that had come out within the last year – Moana, Sing, and Storks. The first two movies had a wide viewership and based on…
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