Author Serdar Yegulalp

Inari Kon Kon is built along that model, and doesn't need to be particularly profound to work.

About half of the second season of Knights of Sidonia is in the vein of the best of what the show had to offer in its first season.

Darker Than Black first appeared in 2007, not quite long enough ago to either qualify or disqualify for proper status as a classic.

Four pieces of news, all eye-opening, all dealing with crowdfunded anime projects passed across my desk in the previous week.

Before Mamoru Oshii bent minds with the likes of 'Ghost in the Shell', he tickled ribs with this entry in the action-comedy mecha series.

This makes talking about The King of Pigs more difficult; it's harder to separate my analysis of the film from my emotional reactions to it.

The deliberate pacing of Noir is both its most important attribute and the one thing about it most likely to give pause to today's viewers.

The Eccentric Family is a show that gets it all right: funny, thoughtful, and a cast of characters that never fail to enlist our sympathy.

Isao Takahata's brush-painted picture scroll of a movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, asks where real meaning of any of our lives lies.

Porco Rosso appeals more to older children than younger ones , but there's never been a film of theirs that didn't speak to older audiences.

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - The best Mamoru Oshii film that Oshii never directed remains affecting and relevant fifteen years later.

Even if the story's little more than a placeholder, REDLINE seethes with visuals so propulsive, they guarantee it a place in anime history.

Maybe that puts Bubblegum Crisis right back into the realm of being a history lesson.

Finally, I shouldn't make it sound as if Scarlett Johannson herself is the problem. She's not.

The surprise is that Kite does a half-decent job of extracting the few worthy ideas in the original and plugging them into a new production.

All You Need Is Kill has been revisited no less than 3 times in media, each version a meditation on war, death, rebirth, and timelessness.

An endearing cast, a creatively elaborated setting, and a strongly character-driven story combine to make Chaika many cuts above the run of the mill.

Ghost in the Shell: ARISE is still miles better than most anything else served up this season.

Even if 'ARISE' falls short of the heights of 'Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex', it's still a model of ambition and vision for anime

Twenty-five years on, one of anime's seminal groundbreakers, Ghost in the Shell, remains as alluring, intriguing, confounding, and problematic as ever.