Who could ever say no to Studio Ghibli? For more than two and a half decades, the Japanese animation studio set-up by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata have continued to put out success after success, ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

Shizuku is a fourteen-year-old junior high student who spends her summer reading fairy tales rather than cram for her high school entry exam. Seiji is her same age; he longs to become a world-class ...

Studio Ghibli’s theatrical anime "Whisper of the Heart" (Mimi wo Sumaseba in its Japanese-language release) has an ending that simultaneously seems to tie everything up and leave hardly anything ...