There’s very much an incestuous quality to the tangle of allusions in this episode, starting with Tale of the Heike. Read more

I deeply respect a studio working on material that’s hard, not easy. Read more

Innovation is a flower. Read more

This is the balance Oniyasha must learn, that his father urges him to learn. To understand and respect form without being a slave to it. To love Sarugaku enough to destroy it. Read more

The way the people Oniyasha encounters change him is perhaps the main theme of World is Dancing. Read more

If I were to sum that episode up in a single word, I think it would be “intense”. Read more