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The best animation of 2025

Hanh Nguyen, Melanie McFarland, Coleman Spilde
"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle" (Koyoharu Gotoge/Shueisha Aniplex/ufotable)

The anime antidote to American fatigue

Coleman Spilde
"Dandadan" poster (Yukinobu Tatsu/Shueisha, DANDADAN Production Committee)

2024's best anime and its viral opener

Kambole Campbell
Look Back (Tatsuki Fujimoto/Shueisha)

Oh the humanity! A "Look Back" at art

Michael Lee
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Héra voiced by Gaia Wise in New Line Cinema’s and Warner Bros. Animation’s epic anime adventure “Lord Of The Rings: War of Rohirrim" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

"LOTR" anime is beautiful franchise slop

Coleman Spilde
Delicious in Dungeon (Netflix)

The anime that cured my food TV burnout

Ashlie D. Stevens
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse | Blue Eye Samurai | The Boy and the Heron (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Sony Pictures Entertainment/Netflix/Studio Ghibli)

12 biggest moments in animation in 2023

Michael Lee
Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Creed in "CREED III" (Eli Ade/MGM)

What makes "Creed III" look so good

Gary M. Kramer
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Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli)

"Spirited Away" delights 20 years later

Northrop Davis - The Conversation
Paul Gosar and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gosar censured despite fierce GOP rally

Jon Skolnik
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Paul Gosar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Paul Gosar kills AOC in new anime video

Jon Skolnik
John Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda in "Cowboy Bebop" (Geoffrey Short/Netflix)

Watch the stylish "Cowboy Bebop" teaser

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
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Yasuke (Netflix)

Netflix's stunning Black samurai anime

Melanie McFarland
Alice in Borderland (Netflix)

A dystopia more brutal than "The Stand"

Melanie McFarland
Jarrod Ramos (AP/Salon)

Annapolis shooter's murderous theology

Jonathan Hutson
Scarlett Johansson in "Ghost in the Shell" (Paramount Pictures)

Whitewashing & Hollow Excuses

Melanie McFarland
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Is this Ghibli's last film?

Andrew O'Hehir
THE WIND RISES. © 2013 Nibariki - GNDHDDTK (Studio Ghibli)

Miyazaki's haunting farewell

Andrew O'Hehir
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Prachi Gupta
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