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Forgotten Island is a dizzying, cotton-candy-colored, visually spectacular mash-up, a richly stylistic ganache poured over a sweet story about friendship, memory and how friends from different backgrounds lift each other up and help each other become who they are. The way it cleverly clashes animation styles together is reminiscent of the Spider-Verse films, and no…

When the finale of Yuri!!! On Ice (hereafter YOI) dropped on December 21, 2016, demand for watching and discussing the episode was so high that Crunchyroll and Tumblr crashed. The moment was the culmination of a 12-week period on the internet that started with cautious excitement for YOI’s October premiere—mostly from within the online anime…

Akira is commonly regarded as one of the greatest animated films of the 1980s. The cyberpunk anime struck a chord with Japanese and Western audiences with its apocalyptic tale of an unhinged teenage rebel who harbors unbelievable psychic powers. In North America, Akira shattered the archaic perception of animation only being for kids by delivering a powerful, mature story soaked…

Serial Experiments Lain belongs alongside Akira and Ghost in the Shell. Giant Freakin Anime makes the case for saving this cyberpunk classic.