Demon Slayers and Demon Hunters Outpace Disney
To Gen Z’s delight, Japanese and Korean culture push animated films beyond the Pixar universe.
A Tokyo movie theater promoting "Demon Slayer" earlier this month.
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To help inspire the drawings I attach at the end of these newsletters, I have a small shelf of picture books by the great Japanese artists Katsushika Hokusai and Kawanabe Kyosai. My sketches have nothing close to the deep whimsy and magical simplicity of their intricately conceived work. Still, if you’re familiar with either or both, you’ll notice lots of stolen tropes in Drawdown.