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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Spider-Ham

Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) is a superhero appearing in Marvel Comics. The character is an anthropomorphic pig and is a parody version of Spider-Man. He was created by Larry Hama, Tom DeFalco, and Mark Armstrong.

KENEDA

Kaneda, the leader of a motorcycle gang in Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic anime feature AKIRA (1988).

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck was created by Tex Avery for Leon Schlesinger Productions. He has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for either Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, or Speedy Gonzales.

Reviews

REVIEW: Sony Pictures Animation “Goat”

REVIEW: Sony Pictures Animation “Goat”

Avatar photoMartin Goodman|
February 16th, 2026
Despite very odd character designs, the animation is wonderful. The film's action sequences are an animated equivalent of jazz fusion translated to the screen. Layout, perspective, and movement are so fluid that the film flows, rather than projects, on the audience's eyes.
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REVIEW: Dreamworks “The Bad Guys 2”

REVIEW: Dreamworks “The Bad Guys 2”

Avatar photoMartin Goodman|
August 4th, 2025
“It’s not the action, it’s the distraction.” Animated movie buffs will find a joyful surfeit of both in the new DreamWorks flick The Bad Guys 2, a sequel to the 2002 hit that surpasses it in almost every way. Every primary and a few secondary characters return in a snappy heist film that has enough […]
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BOOK REVIEW: “The Art of The Boy and the Heron”

BOOK REVIEW: “The Art of The Boy and the Heron”

Avatar photoCharles Solomon|
July 7th, 2025
“The Art of The Boy and the Heron” opens with director Hayao Miyazaki’s self-deprecating Project Memo: “Isn’t it proof that you are aging when you imagine you’re still capable, but in fact you have memory loss due to senility? I would say yes.” Audiences who saw the Oscar-winning film would say “no.” The Japanese title […]
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ANIME REVIEW: “Dr. Stone”

In 2017, Writer Riichiro Inagaki and illustrator Boichi scored a hit with their adventure-comedy manga Dr. Stone in “Weekly Shonen Jump.” Both a popular and critical success, Dr. Stone went on to win a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2019. (Viz has published 15 volumes of Dr. Stone in English.) For the 2019 animated adaptation, director […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|September 23, 2020
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ANIME REVIEW: “Dr. Stone”

ANIME REVIEW: “Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?”

The hit broadcast series Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (2015) blends elements of two popular anime genres, the fantasy adventure and the harem comedy, into an appealing mix. Long ago, the gods who dwelled above the city of Orario descended, looking for entertainment: They limited their powers and began interacting […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|September 16, 2020
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ANIME REVIEW: “Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?”

MANGA REVIEW: “Blue Flag”

High school is a miserable time, when kids battle raging hormones, crushing insecurities and never-ending drama. In Kaito’s new manga Blue Flag (Ao no Flag), the students at Aohama High experience all the usual problems–plus some unusual ones. Alienated senior Taichi Ichinose has never forgiven himself for failing to prevent a cat from getting run […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|August 19, 2020
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MANGA REVIEW: “Blue Flag”

ANIME REVIEW: “Tokyo Godfathers”

Shout Factory!/Gkids’ re-release of Tokyo Godfathers (2003) — with an English dub for the first time — serves as a reminder of the exceptional talent the art of animation lost when Satoshi Kon died in 2010 at the age of 46. Tokyo Godfathers was his third feature, after Perfect Blue (1998) and Millennium Actress (2002). […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|June 17, 2020
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ANIME REVIEW: “Tokyo Godfathers”

BOOK REVIEW: “Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli”

Although there have been numerous books and countless articles published about Studio Ghibli and its creations, few, if any, journalists have been able to write about the internal workings of the studio. Steve Alpert, who speaks Japanese fluently, came to Ghibli in 1996 and spent the next decade and a half there as a senior […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|June 1, 2020
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BOOK REVIEW: “Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli”

ANIME REVIEW: “Promare”

At a time when many American features look so much alike, the brilliant colors and boldly stylized imagery in Hiroyuki Imaishi’s Promare hit the viewer like a bucket of ice water. As Imaishi, screenwriter Kazuki Nakashima and many of the animators worked together on the popular series Gurren Lagann, the flamboyant visual style won’t surprise […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|May 21, 2020
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ANIME REVIEW: “Promare”
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ANIME REVIEWS: “One Punch Man” and “Mob Psycho 100”

Many recent anime TV programs reflect Japan’s daunting socio-economic problems in the post-Bubble economy: An aging, shrinking population; a bleak financial future that makes many young people undesirable as potential marriage partners; growing economic inequality; the persistent trauma from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident Westerners call Fukushima—and the government’s ineffectual response to it.