Asian history Youtuber Wookong recently posted a detailed video essay titled “Post-War Anime: The History of Japanese Animation & Japan.” Starting in Japan after the end of the second World War, ...
The first time Taran Matharu watched Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1988), he had no clue what the story was about. (He isn’t the only one.) Yet he was gripped by the film’s exquisite design, staging, and ...
Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming, looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. Like every medium before it, “video essays” on ...
Whenever I’m not sitting in front of my laptop writing or reviewing video games and anime, I’m sitting in front of my laptop watching YouTube video essays. My eye doctor is worried, but we’re not here ...