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The Best Anime Series of the 2010s

December 19, 2019December 30, 2019 The Dot and LineComments Off on The Best Anime Series of the 2010s

It’s been a long 10 years. These anime sliced them down to size.

EDITORS PICKS

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At the Start of 2016, Rebecca Sugar Gave Garnet Something Entirely New

By Maya Gittelman

How Rebecca Sugar and ‘Steven Universe’ set precedents for queer love in cartoons.

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Sometimes All a Cartoon Needs Is Just One Minute

By John Maher

Satoshi Kon's films are master classes in cinematic editing, and his final work, the minute-long short film 'Ohayo,' is no exception.

Farewell, Log Lady. Plank Will Never Replace Your Log.

By John Maher

Was Jonny from ‘Ed Edd n Eddy’ an homage to Margaret from ‘Twin Peaks’? If so, he’s a sweet but unsatisfactory successor.

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Communist China’s Animators Made Traditional Ink Painting Into Cartoons

By Isabel Galwey

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

We Need to Talk About the Quiet Pain of Pearl on Steven Universe

By Eric Vilas-Boas

We must now reckon with the new episodes of Rebecca Sugar’s emotional ticking time bomb.

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

By Talia Jane

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

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That Time Akira Kurosawa Left Hayao Miyazaki Speechless

By Eric Vilas-Boas

This is what two legends meeting looks like.

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Macie and Me, and the Little Seal Girl Makes Three

By Corinne Segal

On the subtle queer feminism of 'As Told By Ginger.'

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