Naoko Yamada is carving an abstract path to the top of the anime world
Naoko Yamada, perhaps the most well-known female anime director, and her regular collaborators find humanity amid abstract ...
The Colors Within is a subtly beautiful anime — and impossible to ignore
Anime director Naoko Yamada knows her way around stories about music. She directed more than 40 episodes of K-On! and worked ...
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The Best Anime Goths
While anime features a lot of cute characters in bright colors, it is also home to many iconic goths who dress in more ...
12 Black Anime Characters: Racism vs. Representation on TV
Anime, originating in Japan, has long had a complicated relationship to race. In many early anime series, Black characters were almost entirely absent, and when they did appear — even later on in ...
Movie Review: ‘The Colors Within’ is a gentle stunner
Kids movies so often bear little of the actual lived-in experience of growing up, but Yamada Naoko’s luminous anime “The ...
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‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Filmmakers Discuss Balancing Grief, Humor And Unique Animation To Create A Heartwarming Tale
Ghost Cat Anzu' filmmakers and screenwriter sit down with Deadline to talk about the process of making the popular Japanese ...
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Boruto: Kishimoto Set To Reveal A New Female Otsutsuki
In fact, the latest events of the Boruto series seem to imply that a new Otsutsuki Is going to be introduced very soon, and ...
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‘Sailor Moon’: How Old Is Each Sailor Scout in the Anime and the Manga?
Age in anime and manga can be weird sometimes. From the differences in school systems, to the fact that the most popular ...