Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

After what feels like years of waiting, the first trailer for the new Mortal Kombat movie is finally here, and it’s everything fans of the video game franchise could have possibly hoped for. The ...

1995’s live-action Mortal Kombat film is as good as video-game-to-movie adaptations get. Sure, it wasn’t perfect; and the special effects were a bit questionable. But the action was non-stop and the ...

From Up on Poppy Hill, a high school melodrama set right before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, is somewhat of a departure from the norm for Studio Ghibli. There are no flying pigs, wolf girls or floating ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Growing up with the surname Miyazaki can’t have been easy. Any child born to the legendary animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, would surely have a lot to prove, so the notion ...

On his first trip to Los Angeles in February, Japanese director Goro Miyazaki found a native custom perplexing. “I’ve never been to any other place in the world where you see so few pedestrians,” ...