‘The Boy and the Heron’ is a Heartfelt look at Miyazaki’s Childhood

“The Boy and the Heron” Review When I was a kid in 2006, I remember watching Cartoon Network and seeing a commercial for a month-long event that Toonami would be putting on called “A Month of Miyazaki.” Every week, Toonami would air one film made by Hayao Miyazaki, and while I only watched Nausicaa of the …

Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 11

Fortunately Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen isn’t sticking with last week’s omake format for its final two episodes.  With no manga material left to adapt anything we get is going to be anime-original, and there was a sense of this not being quite on-point.  Still, it was fine – not a great episode by any …

The Apothecary Diaries #11 — Dramatic Lighting

  Much subtlety. Impressions: Same as the last few, and the same commentary might as well be copy/pasted. About eight minutes of Maomao monologuing to explain it all, while the person in question, one of the high mucky-muck concubine’s honey maids, sits there glaring with knives glinting in the background, dead eyes, and ominous shadows over …