The streaming service will produce 30 anime titles alone next year.

Also: Facebook’s population, the iPhone’s future, North Korea, Donald Trump’s TV addiction, new movie formats, comic books, and Henry David Thoreau’s video game.

Also: Cuba’s Netflix, pre-Tolkien fantasy epics, anime samurai apologetics, and conservatives vs. Julius Caesar.

Forget about characters and plot. My favorite aspect of “Macross” has always been its amazing mecha designs.

This may be the only anime article you’ll read that mentions Bertrand Russell in a review of Attack on Titan.

The high-profile animated film is currently streaming on Netflix in a heavily edited and diminished form.

A poignant holiday tale of redemption, plus several other anime movies and series worth checking out.

Grim, mysterious superhumans, delightful forest friends, and elite government agents.

A sedate samurai drama, a chilling tale of dreams and hallucinations, and a poignant drama made more awesome with transforming robots.

A haunting, rain-filled movie about relationships, a harrowing WW2 childhood drama, and an enigmatic series about angel-like creatures in a strange town.

Conspiracies in contemporary Japan, a family drama with a cyberspace backdrop, and a Prohibition-era tale of gangsters, bootleggers, assassins, and alchemists.

Studio Ghibli’s other master releases his first film in 14 years, a retelling of a classic Japanese fairy tale.