HBO Max does not play. This month, the streaming TV service is building on its already impressive library of animated shows with a host of new movies, as well as two documentaries on acclaimed production company Studio Ghibli and its best-known director, Hayao Miyazaki. . The HBO platform established itself as a home for anime in 2019, when it managed to secure streaming rights to Studio Ghibli's entire catalog of films, My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away. Princess Kaguya and Howl's Moving Castle. In the United States, this is the only place you can stream the movies, while Netflix has the rights in most other territories around the world. So it makes sense for HBO Max to take a look at its Ghibli partnerships, with not one but two documentaries. Subscribers get Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (a movie about, you guessed it, Miyazaki) and The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (more about the studio itself). But the platform will also host two films by Masaaki Yuasa, the director behind Devilman: Crybaby (Netflix). The first, Ride Your Wave, is a love letter to surfing, to youth, and ultimately to love; the second, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl is a 2017 animated romantic comedy that you can stream on Netflix outside of the United States. There's also Weathering With You, a supernatural tale from the director of the hit movie Your Name, and Promare, a super-powered anime from the studio behind the upcoming Edgerunners miniseries based on the world of Cyberpunk 2077.