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The Potato-Chip Scene in Death Note is Actually Brilliant

Death Note is my all-time favourite anime, as many of my friends are annoyingly reminded of it all the time. It’s still one of the most popular anime today, but I don’t think it would’ve been nearly as beloved without Tetsurō Araki’s direction. Death Note is full of internal monologues, notebook scribbling, ticking clocks, and evil laughter; pulling that off with intensity and style was no small f

Jenn The Editor: if you were a chip what flavour would u be

The Potato-Chip Scene in Death Note is Actually Brilliant

Tomoko, Sena, Friendship and their Anxieties

If you ever feel like reliving the Dinner Party episode of The Office mixed with Scott's Tots mixed with that masturbation scene from Evangelion, look no further than Watamote. Protagonist Tomoko Kuroki has crippling, agonizing social anxiety. And not the cute, attractive kind, where people approach her specifically because of how unique or timid she is. More like the “I can understand why this gi

littledancingdonkey05: Every femcel needs her self-absorbed baddie

Tomoko, Sena, Friendship and their Anxieties

Androgyny and Gender Bending in The Apothecary Diaries

The DC will hate this, but I was recently recommended an anime show by a mutual friend and I fell in love with it: The Apothecary Diaries. Now, I will admit, anime is not a genre that I am all that familiar with, and I just started the series, but I wanted to chat about what has kept me watching so far. And, yes, like always, I've got a lot to say. But I'll keep it short. So, if you haven't starte

The DC: I guess I did't get to that part of the show

Androgyny and Gender Bending in The Apothecary Diaries

I Knew What Takopi's Original Sin Was Going To Be About, and I Still Watched it

The first anime I ever watched was Death Note. I was ten and a friend told me about this super cool, edgy show with a hot genius boy who killed criminals using a notebook. It probably wasn’t the most age-appropriate content, what with the God complexes, philosophical debates about justice, and a mountain of corpses. In retrospect, Death Note isn't even that graphic. Thematically mature? Sure. But

Lucas.: sounds dark and twisted

I Knew What Takopi's Original Sin Was Going To Be About, and I Still Watched it

Machines, Class, and Architecture: Metropolis vs Psycho-Pass

When I first watched Metropolis and later Psycho-Pass, I was struck not only by their shared visions of dystopian futures, but by how both stories use architecture, class structures, and the presence of machines to explore deeper questions about human agency and social control. In this piece, I want to reflect on the visual and ideological parallels between these two works, separated by almost a c

Machines, Class, and Architecture: Metropolis vs Psycho-Pass

Shingeki no Kyojin: The epic zenith of Japanese animation.

A good story increases its appreciation by revealing the truth about its characters. We have become spoiled by industrial cinema's schematic narrative order. In this order, the elements are visible to the audience, but not to the characters, so we are simply spectators of what will inevitably happen. To spice up a feeling of surprise, the goal is to build empathy or contempt for the character, but

Anime After Dark: Attack on titan has some of the best lore I’ve ever seen!

Shingeki no Kyojin: The epic zenith of Japanese animation.

The Scene of a Lifetime

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." 'UP' UP THERE IN OUR HEARTS. In the landscape of cinematic masterpieces, there is barely any film that could possibly achieve the sublime balance between technical brilliance and emotional devastation all in the first 10 minutes with the most tender and heartbreakingly adorable approach q

mind.full.of.movies: Such a beautiful reading of the montage scene! I'm 100% with you; the montage in this movie reminded me a bit of that animation short, "Paperman" in that it really manages to evoke such deep, intense emotions without any dialogue at all. The way each scene was composed, the lighting, the music, and the simple body movements were enough to both captivate your attention, tell a story, and leave you feeling everything all at once.

The Scene of a Lifetime

Loving your Terrible Home Town in Clannad Afterstory

"I hate this town. It's full of memories I'd rather forget. I go to school every day and hang out with my friends. And then I go home. There's no place I'd rather not go ever again. I wonder if anything will ever change." It’s a strange sensation when a fictional character voices your inner monologue better than you can. I never loved my hometown, and not because it was especially awful, just beca

Jenn The Editor: alexa play hometown glory by adele

Loving your Terrible Home Town in Clannad Afterstory

How Two Studio Ghibli Masterpieces Define Coming-of-Age Cinema: The Cinema of Becoming!

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, but the journey of understanding begins with one frame." Here's the truth that changes everything once you recognise it: We are all living in the third act of our coming-of-age film ! This is my first article, written as I embark on the most important journey of my creative life. My "filler episodes" are done; this one, I intend for it to be c

How Two Studio Ghibli Masterpieces Define Coming-of-Age Cinema: The Cinema of Becoming!

Returning to the Festival...

I'm back to it… Fantasia Film Festival - an annual film festival held in Montréal - begins tonight. Usually, I would be heading out to buy my block of tickets for films from the worlds of horror, anime, weird comedy, and general insanity of particular left-brained talents. Problem is…money. I have to find some more work over the summer to cover the bills. So, what am I doing this year? The same th

Returning to the Festival...

There Will Never Be a Film Like Akira

As someone who runs an anime review account, it feels almost sacrilegious to admit this, but I only recently watched Akira. Yes, the 1988 Akira. The one that’s practically the backbone of every anime, history, documentary, and cyberpunk fan’s mood board. I held out for years, despite all the peer pressure and persistent recommendations from friends and strangers alike. And now, having finally seen

Matthew Alan Schmidt: I really need to watch this...

There Will Never Be a Film Like Akira

You Are In Hinamizawa, Summer of '89

It’s June 17th, 1989. The sun burns through paper-thin curtains as the sound of cicadas drills into your skull. You're on a futon, half-awake, blinking against the light. It smells like damp earth and old wood. You hear footsteps downstairs and the clatter of someone making miso soup. You don’t remember arriving in this village, but you know you’ve been here before. You chalk it up to déjà vu. Thi

Matthew Alan Schmidt: B-b-b-but how could an anime with such a cute art style be so cruel and disturbing??

You Are In Hinamizawa, Summer of '89

This Unknown Film Is Why Star Wars, LOTR, Avengers, Naruto, Mad Max and Every Action Blockbuster Story Feels the Same!

A 70 year old b&w Japanese film is the BLUEPRINT that owns the narrative of ALL YOUR FAVOURITE ACTION FRANCHISE !? All those 207 days worth of cinema consumption lines up to this one MAGNUM OPUS film that has 207 mins of runtime but decades worth of influence! Influence so powerful that even this week’s release of PREDATOR movie has listed it in its influence for making their film ! Steven Spielbe

ReelKen: Hell yeah Kurosawa was a god damn genius and Seven Samurai's DNA is absolutely everywhere in big action flicks – gotta admit your breakdown of the team-assembly thing and the rain making fights feel raw is spot on, totally see why Spielberg raves about it.

Mind If A White Boy Watches Some Anime?

Moshi moshi. I fear that Peliplat is changing me. It's making me, dare I say, more well rounded. At least, it's expanding my viewing horizons, as I have started to consume content that was not previously on my radar. It used to take a lot for me to watch anime. As a white, Canadian adult, anime seemed like something for kids or at least something from such a foreign culture that it just wasn't mad

omarmnsouli: I love Perfect Blue. I'm game for anything with a fictional popstar

Mind If A White Boy Watches Some Anime?

Why Pompo the Cinéphile Became My Timeless North Star

Pompo the Cinéphile is a profound act of cinematic communion, an animated film that doesn't merely tell a story but offers itself as a mirror, inviting creators, dreamers, and solitary wanderers of imagination to recognize themselves within its frames. To say I'm biased would be stating the obvious, it's impossible for someone who breathes film, who sees life as footage to be edited, stories waiti

Why Pompo the Cinéphile Became My Timeless North Star

The Most Passive War Film Ever Made

Grave of the Fireflies is probably my perfect idea of a war film. I’ve seen a plethora of war movies throughout my life, from childhood to adulthood, since war is such a common dramatic motif. Many films use it to instantly create tragedy, win an Oscar, or, in most cases, discourage the notion that war was ever necessary or good. But very few are as quietly devastating, and as narratively dense, a

Lucas.: War is hell

The Most Passive War Film Ever Made

Turbo Granny and the Profane Grace of Evil

Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye is a collective exorcism in a dark room where the laughter turns nervous, and the color palette begins to rot. Let’s make one thing clear right out of the cursed, dripping gate: If you haven’t seen Season 1, do not watch this. The so-called “recap” is a jagged, barely coherent Rorschach test of madness—less a narrative, more a PTSD flashback stitched together by yokai-fueled p

Turbo Granny and the Profane Grace of Evil

More Than a Star, Less Than A Person

If you live your life through parasocial relationships with the celebrities you adore, you’re definitely not alone. Honestly, I’ve been there too—maybe I still am. I mean, who doesn’t fantasize about becoming best friends with that one actor or influencer? Who hasn’t devoted so much time to a star or an idol’s career that, at some point, it almost becomes something religious? But over the years, I

Lucas.: Once again, opening my eyes to a show/world I knew nothing about. Thank you, Anime After Dark!

More Than a Star, Less Than A Person

The Geometry of Willpower: Existential Symbolism in My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

In My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, beneath the genre polish of a superhero spin-off lies a textured meditation on dignity, justice, and the gravity of becoming. The narrative centers on a triptych of characters: a shy, grounded young man; a buoyant, rebellious girl; and a grizzled veteran who looms with the aura of past battles. But it’s in the literal biomechanics of their powers — the choreography

The Geometry of Willpower: Existential Symbolism in My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

Time Travel is Usually Horror

I grew up watching the 1970s kids' show Doraemon, where a robot cat from the 22nd century travels back in time to the 1980s to help his caretaker’s great-grandson fix his life (if only someone would do that for me now). The show revolves around the two having adventures in Japan with their friends, as Doraemon uses several of his futuristic gadgets—like the bamboo copter, the anywhere door, or the

Lucas.: If I could time travel, I'd go back so I could watch more anime

Time Travel is Usually Horror

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