Author: gendomike

The IFC Studio Ghibli retrospective give me the chance to revisit an old Miyazaki classic after many years. Its uniqueness in his catalog, and in anime in general, is undeniable.

Anime Diet turns 5 years old today. A few brief thoughts.

Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon) is a pretty, mediocre anime film, whose lovely background art and battle animation cannot quite make up for a lack of character depth and emotional connection.

I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?

Why is “Future Diary’s” Yuno (and yanderes in general) so appealing?

In the first entry in the Dusty Disc Review series, Mike watches his DVDs of Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey), a memorable, if slightly uneven, example of symbolic and allegorical storytelling in anime.