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The immortal blood of Lupin III
February 20, 2026
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
February 17, 2026
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
February 13, 2026
Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is more fascinating than its light novel title might indicate.
Season of the Witch
February 10, 2026
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)
February 6, 2026
Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons animated shorts program is finally publicly releasing… for some degree of "publicly" and "releasing" both.
Talk, no Jujutsu
February 3, 2026
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'
January 30, 2026
Looking back at a 2D hybrid cult classic courtesy of The Line.
Looking back before Look Back
January 27, 2026
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-
January 23, 2026
On the enthralling grotesquery of the short film Ersatz.
Primal, re-animated
January 20, 2026
Genndy Tartakovsky's (mostly) silent, adult animated action series returns for its strangest and most affecting season yet.
Saturday morning cartoons
January 16, 2026
Some humble weekend viewing suggestions, mostly under 20 minutes.
This 40-minute adult animation pilot makes me want to see 40 episodes
January 13, 2026
A spotlight on the adult animated series in progress, El Guapo vs The Narco Vampires.
What you should be watching
January 9, 2026
Anime! There's too much of it.
The (other) anime of the year
January 6, 2026
A little addendum to a big list.
Moving right along (in search of good times and good news, with good friends you can't lose)
January 2, 2026
In the spirit of the New Year and accompanying resolutions, we're looking back at what we wrote in 2025.
Th3 3l3phant
December 30, 2025
Our third and final interview on The Elephant is a discussion with Patrick McHale about collaboration and tying together invisible plot threads.
The Elephant within
December 26, 2025
In our second interview on Adult Swim's The Elephant, Remus & Kiki tell us about their work on the special's middle segment.
The Elephant in the room
December 23, 2025
We speak to the creators of Adult Swim's ambitious special about creating animation, exquisite corpse style. First up: Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward.
Where's your head at?
December 19, 2025
A spotlight on the visceral, gnarly, and unambiguously inspiring short animations by Sasha Glico.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Kon
December 16, 2025
2003's Tokyo Godfathers is, no surprise, timeless and moving.
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