Injecting an intoxicating shot of frantic energy and sleek color directly into your pupils, the postapocalyptic sci-fi action saga “Promare” plays like an anime-induced euphoric trip. Marking the ...

Anime maniacs have been waiting for this day: Eight years ago, Hiroyuki Imaishi co-founded Studio Trigger with the goal of one day hatching a feature as wild and innovative as his TV series “Gurren ...

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.

Reuniting the fan-favorite duo behind one of the most widely successful Gainax hits of the 2000s, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima’s Promare is an incredible ...

Hiroyuki Imaishi is–in the very best way–one of animation’s finest ambassadors of ADHD. His 2004 directorial debut, Dead Leaves, is a masterpiece of sci-fi action insanity: 50 minutes of delirious ...

Publishing house GKIDS Films has announced its plans for releasing a special version of theatrical anime hit Promare. The company announced via Twitter that a Promare collector’s edition will be ...

All cinema is wonderful, but there’s a certain wonder that’s only possible through animation. We have almost grown numb to how realistic computer-graphic animation has advanced, but there are few ...

The centerpiece of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You is perpetual, unrelenting rainfall, beating down on the city of Tokyo. From an early sequence in which protagonist Hodaka is nearly swept from ...