Umamusume. They are born to run.
I always find it hard to review the things I love. Yet as the credits rolled on BOANE, I felt moved in a way that very few films have, a testament to the series’ pathos of “overcoming yourself” being so emotionally effective in a way that’s made it hard for me to resist its deeply humanist perspective. The impulse to anthropomorphize is human by nature. The very act of telling stories is, in a…