>An unusual deviation from the romance we are used to. Makoto Shinkai subverts everything we know about romance by not giving us a 'happily ever after'.

All of his movies were like this until Your Name. That Your Name doesn't have an overtly sad ending was kind of a twist at the time.

I think 5cm is the best of his anti-romance era. It does a great job of capturing how much a teenage crush can feel like your whole world, and also how easily it can slip away. Some people grow up by letting it go, and some grow up with those scars, but all of us move on somehow.

Spine of the Night is a great successor to Heavy Metal.

The show doesn't make sense, either, but the show not making sense is on purpose. Screwing with the audience is half of the point.

I had no idea that Zombi got its own unofficial sequels. That's so appropriate.