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‘Weathering With You’ Is the Wettest Movie of the Year

November 19, 2019April 19, 2023 Eric Vilas-BoasComments Off on ‘Weathering With You’ Is the Wettest Movie of the Year

Makoto Shinkai’s follow-up to ‘Your Name.’ dramatizes its characters’ feelings with rain.

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Read or Watch Miyazaki Films. Or Both!

By John Maher

As someone who writes about books by day and about cartoons by all the rest of the times, very little makes me happier than to read something about both. Well, here’s the good news! Literary Hub published just such a something today with Gabrielle Bellot’s “The Magic of Hayao Miyazaki’s Literary Imagination,” and it turned […]

Bump “Unga Bunga Bunga” This Halloween

By John Maher

There’s nothing more worthy of a listen today than this 10-year-old Flavor Flav ode to animation and absurdity.

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‘BoJack’ Makes Addiction and Depression More Real Than Most Live-Action Dramas

By Rebecca Hiscott

Unpacking the humanity of Netflix’s cartoon about a horse.

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Why the Only Good Ads Are the Ones That Look Like Miyazaki Movies

By Eric Vilas-Boas

Oregon's state motto is “She flies with her own wings.” It fits.

Fullmetal Television: ‘FMAB’ at 10

By The Dot and Line

The philosopher’s shōnen, remembered.

My Hero Academia Gets Into a New Arc in “Create Those Ultimate Moves!”

By Sarra Sedghi

Maybe Deku should use his legs?

Rankings We Never Wrote, Ranked

By The Dot and Line

As the Dot and Line says goodbye, we present to you one final and very important ranking.

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Patrick McHale on the Haunting Magic of ‘Over the Garden Wall’: Exclusive

By John Maher

The creator of ‘Over the Garden Wall’ talks Halloween, the lessons he learned from ‘Adventure Time,’ and more.

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