Journal with Witch has Asa and others discover acceptance while discussions of toxic masculinity go on in the background of Ep. 12 "Find". At first glance, you might think those two topics wouldn't fit well together. However, upon further exploration, they feel very much connected. After all, what
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,
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
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a fairly peculiar yet deeply dramatic film from director Bill Conden. It's basically the film adaptation of the 1992 stage musical of the same name, which itself was an adaptation of the 1976 novel of the same name by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig. The whole story is
This Monster Wants To Eat Me finally resolves some of the most important questions about Miko in Ep. 6 "The Shape of Affection". With the end result being an affirmation of her friendship with Hinako, and a truce between her and Shiori. It's also a truce that has resulted in the fox and the fish
It was just three years ago that the world was introduced to the magical world of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. That film was a runaway success at the box office and was surprisingly great, considering some of the gripes coming into it. Now, we're getting a sequel that is adapting one of the most
There's a growing trend in cinema right now, and that is the trend of movies being fun again. Just a good old-fashioned time at the theater (or home since streaming accounts for most viewership these days) filled with laughs and action and heart that remind you why you go to escape in the first
Sometimes the best way to access the core of a film is to let it take you over completely. Locked behind metaphorical dialogue and an obtuse artistry, the key to the door is simply letting it all in and fester inside until the understanding comes to light. You can't second-screen a film like this,