Neon Genesis Evangelion Was Made by a Man in the Middle of a Four-Year Depression. It Became One of the Most Influential Anime of the 1990s.
Neon Genesis Evangelion Was Made by a Man in the Middle of a Four-Year Depression. It Became One of the Most Influential Anime of the 1990s. By Jimigrimm Evangelion starts like a giant robot show. A teenage boy is recruited by his absent father to pilot a biomechanical weapon against massive creatures threatening humanity. The […]
Death Note Was Built Around a Single Question: Would You Root for the Villain?
Death Note Was Built Around a Single Question: Would You Root for the Villain? By Jimigrimm Light Yagami writes a name in a notebook. Someone dies. The show presents his reasoning so logically, so calmly, so convincingly, that his justification for murder starts to feel reasonable before most viewers realize what’s happened. He’s only killing […]
What Comics to Read Before Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
What Comics to Read Before Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) By Jimigrimm Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters July 31, 2026. It’s the fovurth Tom Holland Spider-Man film and the first directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed Shang-Chi. The trailer has confirmed villains including Mr. Negative, Tombstone, and the Hand, along with appearances from […]
The Woman Who Created Inuyasha Also Created Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura. She’s Been Publishing Manga Since 1978 and She’s Still Going.
The Woman Who Created Inuyasha Also Created Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura. She’s Been Publishing Manga Since 1978 and She’s Still Going. By Jimigrimm Girl falls down a well. Girl ends up in feudal Japan. Girl meets a half-demon pinned to a tree by a sacred arrow. Girl frees the half-demon. A sacred jewel shatters […]
Gurren Lagann Starts With a Robot the Size of a Person. By the Final Episode, the Robot Is Bigger Than a Galaxy.
Gurren Lagann Starts With a Robot the Size of a Person. By the Final Episode, the Robot Is Bigger Than a Galaxy. By Jimigrimm Simon lives underground. He digs tunnels for a living in a village that has never seen the sky. One day he finds a small robot buried in the rock. It’s shaped […]
Paranoia Agent Was Built From Ideas That Didn’t Fit Into Satoshi Kon’s Films. It Was His Only TV Series.
Paranoia Agent Was Built From Ideas That Didn’t Fit Into Satoshi Kon’s Films. It Was His Only TV Series. By Jimigrimm Between 1997 and 2006, Satoshi Kon directed four films. Perfect Blue. Millennium Actress. Tokyo Godfathers. Paprika. Each one was a different genre. Three of the four explored what happens when the line between what’s […]
FLCL Is Six Episodes Long. The Director of Avatar: The Last Airbender Ordered His Staff to Watch All of Them.
FLCL Is Six Episodes Long. The Director of Avatar: The Last Airbender Ordered His Staff to Watch All of Them. By Jimigrimm An alien girl on a yellow Vespa runs over a twelve-year-old boy and hits him in the head with a bass guitar. A horn grows out of his forehead. A robot comes out […]
In Darker Than Black, Every Superpower Comes With a Cost. One Character Has to Break His Own Fingers After Every Use.
In Darker Than Black, Every Superpower Comes With a Cost. One Character Has to Break His Own Fingers After Every Use. By Jimigrimm One character has to smoke cigarettes after every use of his power. He hates smoking. Doesn’t matter. The remuneration is mandatory. Another has to drink beer, and she’s the rare Contractor who […]
Wolf’s Rain Was the Only Show Cowboy Bebop’s Head Writer Ever Created From Scratch.
Wolf’s Rain Was the Only Show Cowboy Bebop’s Head Writer Ever Created From Scratch. By Jimigrimm If you watched Cowboy Bebop and wondered who was responsible for the way those characters talked to each other, the answer is Keiko Nobumoto. She was the series composition writer, the person who oversaw the overall story, maintained the […]
Samurai Champloo’s Soundtrack Was Built by Four Hip-Hop Producers. One of Them Died at 36.
Samurai Champloo’s Soundtrack Was Built by Four Hip-Hop Producers. One of Them Died at 36. By Jimigrimm The record needle scratches across a scene transition. A sword fight breaks out and the choreography matches the beat. Two guys who hate each other sit in a teahouse while a lo-fi instrumental plays underneath the rain outside, […]