Hooray, we made it to our 50th episode! Not that we did anything different for it, we just needed you to know. Moving on. This week we're talking about a genre that tends to get overlooked when discussing films; animated movies, especially when they aren't a Disney or Pixar one. But they're great and we have two case studies that prove it. Ponyo is an adorable masterpiece that helped bring the brilliance of Studio Ghibli to an American audience through American voices. Persepolis is an incredible realization of a graphic novel onto the big screen, depicting the life of a young Iranian woman trying to find herself through the turbulence of the Islamic Revolution, and just the general turbulence of being a young girl. These movies are proof that good, sincere cinema can simply exist on a piece of paper.