“I like to think that Mei, in all of her innocence, doesn’t know how to draw the lower half of a boy,” said Shi, who insists that a lot of tween girls have a mermaid phase. “So she draws ...

An ultra-weird grown-up version of the beloved anime 'Ponyo,' Masaaki Yuasa's trippy toon recounts the odd friendship between a boy and a mermaid ... lined Etch-a-Sketch drawings, superimposed ...