Oldtaku no Radio #063 – Ghost Cat Anzu

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