There’s no shortage of anime with apparently gay characters and pairings, or “yuri/yaoi bait” as it’s sometimes called. In many — perhaps most — cases, these characters exist as comic relief (Yuru Yuri), fanservice (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid), or their romance is “implied” (Hibike! …

Haruka and the Magic Mirror is a 3D computer animated movie based on a Japanese legend of a trickster fox who collects people’s forgotten belongings. …

Adapted from the seinen manga by Jun Mayuzuki, After the Rain (Koi wa Ameagari no You ni) is a tender-hearted romance about a bold high school sophomore, Akira Tachibana, who develops strong feelings for the charming middle-aged manager, Masami Kondou, at the restaurant where she works. A story that should’ve…

In the hopes of escaping to a new, possibly better, place, the girls of the “Radio Research Society” meet under the sacred tree to perform the “4:44 Ceremony.” According to an urban legend, performing this ritual at 4:44pm, while listening to radio static tuned to just the right frequency, will…

Is it ethical to clone a human being? Would anything — or anyone — have to be sacrificed? How far should one go to save a life? A.I.C.O. Incarnation asks these questions in the aftermath of a biological experiment gone horribly wrong. The year is 2035. A team of scientists…

Agent Aika begins with a leisurely boat tour along the flood waters now covering Saitama, Japan. Twenty years after a worldwide disaster submerged 95% of the world’s land, salvaging work to recover valuable goods and data from the abandoned cities below has become a booming profession. An attractive fighter and…

“When it comes to researching the human brain in order to control emotions using AI, music and politics are very much alike.” — Jerry Egan It’s been fifty years since humans colonized Mars. Cities akin to Tokyo and New York are populated with first and second generation natives and an…