Film… The Infection of Hate: Seeing with Eyes Unclouded in Princess Mononoke (May-Azaki Review) 26 May 20264 May 2026 Released in 1997, Princess Mononoke presented a sprawling, blood-soaked epic where the gods are dying and humanity is picking up the knife. It is a story that refuses the comfort…
Film… The Wind in the Wings: Burnout, Belief, and Kiki’s Delivery Service (May-Azaki Review) 19 May 20264 May 2026 There is a restlessness that defines the beginning of Kiki’s Delivery Service. We meet thirteen-year-old Kiki lying in the grass, listening to a weather report on her father’s radio, and…
Film… The Architecture of Insecurity: Cleaning the Soul in Howl’s Moving Castle (May-Azaki Review) 12 May 20264 May 2026 Welcome back to May-Azaki, my month-long journey through the breathtaking and often heart-wrenching worlds of Studio Ghibli. Today, we’re stepping inside the clanking, magical gears of my second review: the…
Film… The Sky is a Lonely Place: A Study of Guilt and Grace in Porco Rosso (May-Azaki Review) 5 May 20264 May 2026 There is a specific kind of magic that happens every May; a shift in the light that feels nostalgic and expectant. To celebrate this season of transition, I am launching…
Board Games… Themes We’d Like to See: Studio Ghibli 5 Jan 2017 Gone are the days where the mere presence of a licensed property attached to a board game should be treated as a red flag. Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, A Game of Thrones,…
