Dropping in for a holiday visit to take part in Anime Secret Santa, Jared and Ink of Oldtaku no Radio talk about the 2024 movie, Ghost Cat Anzu. The movie, based off of a manga by Takashi Imashiro, focuses on a tween, Karen (#NotThatKaren), who is taken away from the city by her widower father and dropped off at a rural temple tended by her grandfather. The movie deals with the processing of loss and grief via a sense of sympathy as well as a nostalgia for youthful mischief, bolstered by supernatural elements, and makes fantastic use of ishōtenketsu structure to nail its finale.

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Runtime: 1 hour, 9 minutes

Show Notes

• Episode edited by Ink
  • (Ink’s computer was dying, so he apologizes for some of his choppier bits)
• The Review: Ghost Cat Anzu
  • Name drops: co-directors Yoko Kuno (Linda, Linda, Linda) and Nobuhiro Yamashita (The Case of Hana & Alice, select Crayon Shin-Chan movies)
  • Ghost Cat Anzu can be streamed via HBO Max and has a North American physical release via GKIDS
• Socials: Jared, Ink