For years, anime creators like Toyoo Ashida, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Mamoru Oshii have experimented with vampires in ways that Hollywood would never even attempt. The result is a surprisingly rich ...

A quarter of a century ago, one of the most cinematic anime films ever made debuted in Japanese theaters. Although largely overshadowed by other mammoth projects released in the years before it, ...

Anime movies are often regarded with a higher pedigree than their serialized television counterparts. That's not to say that an anime feature film will always be a success, but these cinematic ...

Whenever retro anime of the metal-as-hell variety makes the rounds on social media, it never fails to leave me in awe of the artistry its creators mustered back in the day. Think Bubblegum Crisis, ...

For decades, Vampire Hunter D has long been thought of as one of the biggest anime movies of all time. Following the original release of the first movie in the 1980s, the only instance that saw D make ...