I found Aggretsuko at the age of 24. Thirty seconds into the first Netflix Original episode, I shared it with my 64-year-old mother who knows absolutely nothing about anime but a hell of a lot about ...

I’m The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief and have lived in Japan since 2016. Books, streaming shows and music are among the ways I explore my current home in Asia and stay connected to what people are ...

Minor spoilers for the third season of “Aggretsuko” follow. The Netflix animated series “Aggretsuko” has always positioned music as an escape from everyday drudgery. The titular Retsuko, a red panda ...