meta: Alternate History

Placed side by side with its anime and manga brother incarnations, 'Fullmetal Alchemist' deserves more to be seen for where it rethinks and reinterprets, and less for how it deviates from the playbook

Trippy visuals and a throw-it-all-in-the-pot narrative style fall victim to incurious storytelling in this oddity

An unfinished but tantalizing collaboration between two of anime (and manga's) most idiosyncratic creative personalities, Satoshi Kon and Mamoru Oshii, this book inspires a close reading -- and no end of wonder about where one man's imagination began and the other one's ended

The best Mamoru Oshii film that Oshii never directed remains affecting and relevant fifteen years later