Journal with Witch has young Asa struggling to find the right words for an original song for her band in Ep. 10 "Bind". Even with Makio's help, she still struggles to find the words for it throughout the entire episode, but she is making progress...of sorts. All while in the background, we see
From Ep. 8 "The Cause of the Cracks" to Ep. 13 "Warmth on the Sea Floor", This Monster Wants to Eat Me shows off an intensely complex yuri story. By the time of the finale, you definitely get the sense that Hinako, Shiori, and Miko have all undergone some enormous character and relationship growth.
Hana-Kimi is in some ways a typical romance anime one might find in a shojo manga. However, Ep. 1 shows that in many other ways, this is definitely not a traditional romance story. Not when the main character is a girl who has disguised herself as a boy in order to pursue her male love interest,
The term “character actor” is one that definitely applies to Swan Song star Udo Kier and his body of work. However, it’s because of performers like him that audiences have really stopped to think about what that concept means. Acting for everyone from Andy Warhol to Rob Zombie, the Cologne
This Monster Wants To Eat Me muddies the waters of yuri a bit in Ep. 7 "A Kind Person". All via some very candid declarations from Shiori regarding her relationship with Hinako...or not, depending on how you interpret her words. Meanwhile, a newcomer is threatening to make the waters murkier yet,
May I Ask for One Final Thing? gives us a new arc with Ep. 6 "May I Send This Pig Flying Into the Sky?" and Ep. 7 "May I Carry Out a Plan That Shows a New Side of You?". All involving a great deal of religious strife in the land that Scarlet calls home, and also a bisexual awakening in that land's
"The Debut" turns a comedy that pokes fun at the sincerity of the local stage and elevates it to a fascinating character study of a woman on the edge. While still being hilarious.
Netflix's animated adaptation of AJ Dungo's graphic novel is a gorgeous and deeply moving love story that reminds us that grief never truly disappears, but neither does the love we carry for those we've lost. Last night, I had the opportunity to watch Netflix's new animated film In Waves, directed
The Apothecary Diaries thickens up the plot with some serious family and political drama in Ep. 51 "Let Them Eat Cake". Students of history will readily recognize that title as the most infamously apocryphal line Marie Antoinette spoke just before the French Revolution came calling, indicating her