classical-music – The Dot and Line

Movies

Go See Bugs at the Symphony Any Chance You Get

The live pairing of cartoons with classical music comes once in a blue moon and is not an event to miss.

Shigeaki Saegusa gave this brutal show the score it deserved.

Interviews TV

The animator’s protégé reveals “one of the things that bothered Chuck to the very end.”

Movies

For ‘Princess Mononoke,’ Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite composer wrote the best symphonic theme since Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony.

Yutaka Nakamura’s animation in ‘Sword of the Stranger’ is a staggering work to behold.

When they're not stinging you dead, they're eating you alive or laying their eggs in your eyes, broh!

A special recipe from ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ courtesy of A to Z Ghibli Food.

I’m not pessimistic about this. Here are three things I want to see happen.

A rebuttal in quotes from these two seminal series.

John Maher pens his final words on the Dot and Line.

On Hey Arnold! and the glamor of struggle—a part of Nicktoons Month!

A brief look at the history of otaku subculture and how it’s been intertwined with the rise of anime in the United States.