Tuning in to Toonout
Dropout's new indie animation shorts anthology is uplifting news in a turbulent time for the industry.
Somewhere in the heavens, they are blogging
An assortment of offerings from two weary freelancers.
A longer shorts shortlist
Ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, we add some alternatives to this year's animated shorts shortlist.
Tubi, or not to be
A sampling of some of the best animated offerings, via the people’s streamer.
No more animation landlords
The recent (re)announcement of Warner Bros. acquisition is but one representation of how corporate higher ups have made poor custodians for the art.
Evangelion, like all source material, is untouchable
A new Neon Genesis Evangelion is fine and dandy, no matter the outcome.
The immortal blood of Lupin III
Monkey Punch's gentleman thief has lived a long life, and his latest film sees him confronted with the stagnation of immortality.
The Farmer Who Blew Up
The real star of The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie isn't Porky, Petunia or Daffy, but a strangely detailed painting of a farmer.
Watching death games to put newsletters in inboxes
Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is more fascinating than its light novel title might indicate.
Season of the Witch
As ever, the next anime season looms – this one particularly loaded with a number of highly anticipated adaptations.
Surprise! Cartoon Cartoons is out (sort of)
Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons animated shorts program is finally publicly releasing… for some degree of "publicly" and "releasing" both.
Talk, no Jujutsu
The best moment of this season of Jujutsu Kaisen, the punchiest anime of the moment, is a 3-minute conversation shown in an unbroken take.
Imitation is the highest form of swagger jackin'
Looking back at a 2D hybrid cult classic courtesy of The Line.
Looking back before Look Back
Kiyotaka Oshiyama's solo animated short film SHISHIGARI is a gorgeous proof-of-concept short film worth hunting down.
A copy of a copy of a-
On the enthralling grotesquery of the short film Ersatz.
Primal, re-animated
Genndy Tartakovsky's (mostly) silent, adult animated action series returns for its strangest and most affecting season yet.
Saturday morning cartoons
Some humble weekend viewing suggestions, mostly under 20 minutes.
This 40-minute adult animation pilot makes me want to see 40 episodes
A spotlight on the adult animated series in progress, El Guapo vs The Narco Vampires.
What you should be watching
Anime! There's too much of it.
The (other) anime of the year
A little addendum to a big list.