Somewhere in the psychoactive realm between “The Little Mermaid,” “Ponyo,” that mermaid subplot from “Beach Blanket Bingo” and the time you accidentally ate a moldy tangerine and saw never-before-seen ...

Building walls between cultures is never a good idea; so says the Japanese anime “Lu Over the Wall.” In the case of the small coastal town of Hinoshi — a place where dreams go to die — the inhabitants ...

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.