The first in the list of anime like Your Lie in April is I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. This romantic drama, based on Yoru Sumino’s novel, is set in a school. Haruki Shiga, an introverted bookworm, ...

That’s definitely a grand statement to make about the director who has become renowned for gorgeous animation. While the aforementioned Hayao Miyazaki (and Studio Ghibli as a whole) are best known for ...

Based on Makato Shinkai’s anime film (later a manga comic and a novel), this is a heady mixture of social drama and poetic fantasy with a little bit of puppetry and dance thrown in. Co-adapted (with ...

Shinkai's latest piece is the story of Takao Akizuki, a 15 year old student living with his borderline alcoholic mother and older brother in small urban apartment. Takao is unlike other boys his age, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anime-inspired theatre shows, long established in Japan, are a relative novelty for British audiences — ...

Whole Hog Theatre in association with Park Theatre present the World Theatrical Premiere of The Garden of Words Official Stage Production Based on the Anime from Makoto Shinkai/CoMix Wave Films ...