It was once considered a niche genre, but now the Japanese animation industry is scrambling to meet the almost insatiable demand.
Kids on the Slope is a sensitively-written coming-of-age drama, built around a rare (for anime) male friendship and steeped in Yōko Kanno and Shinichirō Watanabe's deep love of jazz. It is an atypical anime in that it looks to period films and Japan's recent history for inspiration,...