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When Anime Met Bashō: ‘Winter Days’ Brings a Warm Beauty to a Cold Season

Some of the greatest animators on our planet paying a tribute to a haiku master? That’s a match made in meditative melancholy.

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Have you heard that there will be a theme park!? Have you!?

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

She has the right number of ears, two eyes, one foot, and a very strange friendship with Mr. Peanutbutter.

It’s been a long 10 years. These shows will get you through the next ones too.

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

Aaron McGruder will return to his most beloved property in a new show reimagining the Freeman family's adventures for the modern era.

These shows did it right. As Pride Month comes to a close, let’s acknowledge that.

Even Kafka can always get weirder.

A pantoum in which Peridot, one of the toughest gems on ‘Steven Universe,’ reflects on her new life on Earth.