This time last year, anime film director Makoto Shinkai released his latest film “Tenki no Ko” ("Weathering With You") — and like his other full-length films and beautiful shorts, it became highly ...

If you’re familiar with Inazuma Eleven, you may know of a character named Natsumi Raimon. Early on in the anime series, she was the third manager of the Raimon soccer club, which series lead, Mamoru ...

Weston writes his tale in elegant tanka, a form defined in his author’s note—it’s a haiku-like poem with two additional lines of seven syllables each. Natsumi’s summer pleasures include “sun, the heat ...