The first in the list of anime like Your Lie in April is I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. This romantic drama, based on Yoru Sumino’s novel, is set in a school. Haruki Shiga, an introverted bookworm, ...

Based on Makato Shinkai’s anime film (later a manga comic and a novel), this is a heady mixture of social drama and poetic fantasy with a little bit of puppetry and dance thrown in. Co-adapted (with ...

‘The Garden of Words’ follows on from the RSC’s hugely successful ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ as a screen-to-stage adaptation of Japanese anime – indeed, many of this production’s cast were also in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anime-inspired theatre shows, long established in Japan, are a relative novelty for British audiences — ...

The creators of this stage production have taken Makoto Shinkai’s delicate, subtle 46-minute Japanese anime about two lonely people and turned it into something galumphingly obvious and more than ...