Patrick Bender

How an Anime Tech Cult Can Help Us Grasp the Ethics Behind Game Development

A video game designer and purveyor of “mixed reality” takes a long, hard look through his headset at a heady ‘Bebop’ episode.

All traumatized children would bring their parents back to life if they could. The Elrics show us why the past should stay dead.

Even in communist China, traditional arts informed budding ones—and ink painting informed some of the greatest Chinese animations of all time.

Alberto Vásquez and Pedro Rivero on dark and light, black and red, and adapting your own graphic novel.

If you need a gateway drug to lead you down the anime rabbit hole, ‘Knights of Sidonia’ has you covered.

One of the (few) earnest entries in #JohnWithTheWind.

Whether he’s BoJack the horse or BoJack the actor, he’s still a BoJack suffering from addiction.

For better or worse.

Nine core qualities that make a cartoon cool.