Short Takes: No Guns Life and Ryuko
This month’s Short Takes column checks in with two previously-reviewed series: No Guns Life, a sci-fi thriller whose principled hero sounds…
A Few Thoughts About Stranger Things
Over the course of three seasons, Stranger Things has devolved from an engaging period piece to a Potemkin village whose…
Cats of the Louvre
Weird. Uncanny. Melancholy. Beautiful. Those were just a few of the adjectives I jotted down while reading Taiyo Matsumoto’s Cats of…
The Drifting Classroom Signature Edition, Vol. 1
In a 2009 interview with Tokyo Scum Brigade, Kazuo Umezu acknowledged that his debt to Osamu Tezuka went beyond storyboarding…
Short Takes: Museum and Phantom Tales of the Night
I have a confession: I am a complete chicken when it comes to horror movies. I watched Alien through my fingers and…