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Adam Wescott

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Shiboyugi: This is a Story About a Deranged World

Anime these days is supposed to be a vehicle for other people’s ideas. Shiboyugi, though, has its own voice.

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Life, Death, and Octopus Pie

There are no endings in Octopus Pie. People are always becoming better and becoming worse.

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Let's Go! Anime in 2025

Against all odds in 2025, anime is real!

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Fly, Nahji, Fly! Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

That’s what Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit is about. The slow, inevitable passage of the seasons, in all its immensity.

A boy and a girl sit at a table. The boy opens an orange sphere with his hands, depositing a small dumpling onto a piece of paper on the table as if he were cracking an egg.

LET'S ROCK 3! My Favorite Opening and Ending Credits of 2025

A banner year for opening credits sequences in anime.

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Let's All Be Ghosts: Jaganrei

"Haven't you had enough?" she cries. "You have no right to do things like this!"

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GQuuuuuuX Record #12: That's Why I...

The core message of GQuuuuuuX, I think, is freedom.