Somewhere in the psychoactive realm between “The Little Mermaid,” “Ponyo,” that mermaid subplot from “Beach Blanket Bingo” and the time you accidentally ate a moldy tangerine and saw never-before-seen ...

Matthew Magnus Lundeen is a writer, critic, and aspiring cinephile trying way too hard and simultaneously not enough. He writes anime features for Game Rant when he isn't trying to write fiction.

Hans Christian Anderson's original fairy tale about the bittersweet cost of first, and unrequited, love continues to inspire great works of storytelling to this day. Anderson published "The Little ...

Much of the narrative of Netflix’s original anime movie Bubble revolves around a group of radical young people who take part in “Tokyo Battlekour,” a team parkour game of capture-the-flag set amid the ...

Building walls between cultures is never a good idea; so says the Japanese anime “Lu Over the Wall.” In the case of the small coastal town of Hinoshi — a place where dreams go to die — the inhabitants ...

Like its namesake, the Netflix film Bubble is as beautiful as it is brief, with a deceptively complex story to boot. But bubbles aren’t just beautiful for Hibiki, a freerunner living in the ...

From its inception, rap music has been about telling stories. 50 years ago, in those park jam freestyles, the participants rhymed about their lives and circumstances, either in gritty detail or in ...