DCist visited Katsucon this weekend and snapped some photos.

Acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Wind Rises, is not a cartoon for children, but a vision both beautiful and horrific on the promise and perils of art.

Last weekend, one corner of the D.C. area was taken over by more than 7,000 zealous, costumed individuals. No it wasn’t a Lady Gaga concert; it was Katsucon 18.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Grave of the Fireflies The most affecting film to deal with the human devastation of World War II isn’t a sweeping, big budget epic. It’s this intimate piece of Japanese animation about a brother and sister orphaned after an Allied firebombing of their hometown takes their mother, and the military their father. Seita, the older of…