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Une Vie de Chat is an Oscar-nominated French feature film. It was notable for being one of two foreign-language films nominated (along...

When listing the significant long-running anime based on Jump comics, even fans would be forgiven for forgetting Reborn! – while it had...

With its highly idiosyncratic art style, insipid opening and closing episodes and rather impersonal and alienating first episodes, Kemon...

I think few people knew what they were in for when they started Fire Candy , the mangaka included – something that’s more or less admitted i...

This 1997 animated film was for some reason quite heavily promoted over here five or six years ago. It’s dated in several ways, not least of...

Of the many remarkable things about Kaiji , the most immediately noticeable is, without doubt, the character design, which looks more like s...

While I may consider Miyazaki one of the very best writer/directors who ever made films, animated or otherwise, that is not to say that I wi...

Tekkonkinkreet is an interesting animated movie, something of a milestone in anime history, despite being far left of the mainstream. For on...

Before the masterful, childlike Kaiba and the somewhat disturbing Kemonozume , experimental and fast-rising director Yuasa Masaaki made thi...

Perhaps unusually, I’m predisposed to like manga and anime about board games. Shounen Jump ’s Hikaru no Go remains my favourite manga, and a...

Of all the anime series I’ve watched, Monster has always stood out. By far the most sophisticated and most mature series I’ve been watchin...