frailty completely enamors me. its energy is preeminent, and it has an uncanny ability to translate hyper-realistic, juvenile emotion into the glitching brushstrokes...

Studio Ghibli and its most celebrated films, spearheaded by the work of Hayao Miyazaki, are nothing if not defined by their artistic beauty in the medium they occupy. Irrespective of their content, the teams of animators, artists, sound designers, and the like, that spend...

Despite the most thrilling and nail-biting stories often being those with other-worldly narratives, and a self-insert, 'flawed' but immediately redeemable protagonist so astonishingly determined that there's little room for self-reflection, they often lack touching intimacy, calm settlements, and a sense of...