In the summer of 2009, anime studio Shaft was a little more than a year away from celebrating its 35th anniversary. The studio, founded by Hiroshi Wakao in 1975, had gone from focusing mainly on ...

Do you remember the last time Monogatari hit up television? It has been years since the franchise put out any new anime surprise, but fans haven’t dropped the hit IP. In fact, the franchise is still ...

Bakemonogatari was one of the anime series that put renowned studio Shaft on the map. But before it was a weird, low-budget show, it was a series of light novels written by NISIOISIN. Vertical, a ...