How the Director of Your Name Invented a New Medium of Anime
Makoto Shinkai never set out to become a mainstream director.
Author: Andrew Ko
It Doesn’t Matter if Ghost in the Shell Lives Up to the Original
The 2017 moviegoing audience is a world removed from the 1995 Internet-boom generation that Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell animated classic first released to, and it’s two worlds removed from the 1989 steampunk-curious readership of Masamune Shirow’s original manga.