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Faye Valentine’s Debts Made Her—As Mine Made Me

The ‘Bebop’ femme fatale’s devil-may-care attitude is the natural conclusion to resignation to a debt-filled future. I can relate.

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

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

Celebrate by watching ‘Steamboat Willie’ again.

But the source material for the film, which premiered at Fantastia 2019, happens to predate the Disney blockbuster's by roughly two centuries.

The plot thickens with some revelry in the dark.

Teiichi Takiguchi’s amateur animated effort ‘Ojisan no Lamp’ is as lovely as the oil lamps that give it its name.

The Ghibli co-founder was, beyond any shadow of a doubt, Hayao Miyazaki’s equal in brilliance, if not in output or recognition.

Shigeaki Saegusa gave this brutal show the score it deserved.