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RIP Shichiro Kobayashi, the greatest anime background artist of all time. The art director of Gutsy Frog, Gamba, Treasure Island, Castle of Cagliostro, Aim for the Ace, Cobra, Beautiful Dreamer, Angel's Egg, Touch, Utena, Berserk, Windy Tales and many many others
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Finished rewatching one of the best shonen anime ever, Hunter x Hunter (1999)!
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Manga is one of the few places in the entire pop culture world that still incentivizes innovating and creating new stories rather than endless sequels, remakes, and franchise works. With original anime deader than ever, the reason anime still has vitality is more than ever manga
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If you live in Japan, and also if you don't live in Japan, you should watch this beautiful masterpiece of impermanence that is one of the most slept-on of the greatest animated movies
If you live in Japan, underrated "Niji-Iro Hotaru" (Rainbow Fireflies) animated movie by Konosuke Uda (& Hisashi Mori) is currently included with Amazon Prime Video.
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The Golden Bird (Grimm Douwa: Kin no Tori, Toei/Madhouse, prod. 1984/rel. 1987): the moment I saw Orphan had released a full HD version of this, I knew I had to immediately rewatch this hidden gem by 80s Madhouse that is one of Toshio Hirata's and Manabu Ohashi's masterpieces
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This, followed by an Academy voter calling it an "obscure Chinese fucking thing", was what made me wake up from the idea that this award has any value at all whatsoever
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Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back (Keiichi Hara, 2001): hilarious, brilliant and pretty touching piece about nostalgia and childhood
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On-gaku (Kenji Iwaisawa, 2019): *the* music anime. Amazing the whole way through until it ramps up into transcendental. I had to do a standing ovation, and I was alone in my room
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Watched the first four episodes of Ashita no Joe. The new remaster looks gorgeous
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......as well as the teacher of many other of the best art directors in anime, including Kazuo Oga, Hiromasa Ogura, Toshiharu Mizutani, Hiroshi Ohno, Chieko Nakamura, Shinji Kimura, Kentaro Akiyama. No one has been as important for anime background art as him, and no wonder why
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There are obvious economic reasons for this, as manga is dirt cheap to make compared to animation, and this has always been true to an extent. But there was still an appetite to make daring original anime in past decades that just isn't there anymore.
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Red Shoes (赤い靴, Manga Kodomo Bunko 18A, 1979). Directed and animated by Tsutomu Shibayama with backgrounds by Mariko Kadono and music by Akihiro Komori. A haunting adaptation of a nursery rhyme about a girl stolen away by a foreigner in Yokohama harbor
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I just read about when Togashi proposed to Takeuchi and oh my god, this is somehow the most Togashi thing ever
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The most important Ghibli news today, Miyazaki shaved his beard
Hayao Miyazaki (82y old) yesterday thanked San Sebastian festival (Spain) for the Donostia prize he received, rewarding his career.
He hadn't appeared in public for a long time.
He said he's currently working on exhibits for Ghibli Park.
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It's crazy how much Kon fans sleep on this film
Unbelievably detailed environment designs by Satoshi Kon for Magnetic Rose (1995), dir. Koji Morimoto, Studio 4°C
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The best AD is unsurprisingly the incomparable Akira Matsushima (Jec. E), but Takayuki Goto (IG), Shinobu Tagashira (Deen/Mu) and Masaaki Kawanami (Deen) all look great!
[depicted in order]
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No clearer place to see this than the death of mecha, the anime genre most dominated by original works. Plenty of Gundam still gets made, of course, but anything else that appears just passes by without making a dent on fan consciousness
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This may read as a lament, but I think the continuing creative power of manga I mentioned is very much worthy of celebration, especially in these times of widespread (and quite justified) pessimism about the state of anime
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As to storyboarders/episode directors, after series director Kazuhiro Furuhashi the best is by far Yukihiro Matsushita, but Tsukasa Sunaga and Katsumi Terahigashi also put out good work [again, in order]
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Saint Seiya
#30
: directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi, animted by Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno
First real showcase of Yamauchi's prowess here with his masterly control of tempo and ability to create utterly striking visuals, combined with Araki/Himeno's gorgeous shoujo-style drawings
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And that's the 1999 anime in a nutshell. If you've never watched or read Hunter x Hunter, this is a great place to start! And if you already like it, then please consider giving this amazing version a shot too, you won't be disappointed!
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I love this scene because it's like Tomino foresaw all the "anime is not political" idiots decades in advance
when I come across a profile and can sense the Hitler Particles in the air
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Treasure Island (1978) has easily climbed its way to being one of my favorite Osamu Dezaki works. A tightly-paced and stunningly beautiful take on this classic adventure story, with a focus on the fascinating relationship between the two leads
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"[Old classic] is better than 90% of anything made now"
Well, yes. It's also better than 90% of anything made in the year it was released
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Finished my third watch of Hyouka. It's hard to come with terms with the fact that Yasuhiro Takemoto and Futoshi Nishiya are both gone, but I hope they will be remembered for a long time for their works such as this one - as Mayaka would call it, a born masterpiece.
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Today would be classic Madhouse director Toshio Hirata's 80th birthday. His works are very obscure nowadays, and I've watched only two of them, but I'd eagerly recommend both Bobby's in Deep (1985) and The Golden Bird (1987) to any fan of artsy animation!
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There's a scene in Hyouka where Oreki Houtarou just takes a shirt off, over his head, and it's probably the most technically impressive thing I've ever seen in an anime about a mystery-solving Classics club?? Well, until the festival arc. Fuck AAA videogames, watch Hyouka instead
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It truly impresses me how every single scene in this movie looks way worse than the TV equivalent
Key Animation: Yoh Yoshinari (吉成 曜)
Movie: Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破) (2009)
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It's not even a matter of wrong opinion or bad taste. It's open racism, ignorance and contempt
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Overall, this is definitely the best animated adaptation of these 101 chapters. The Madhouse version has some good parts in this section, such as the Gon x Hisoka and Kurapika x Uvogin fights, but the direction, animation, art and coloring are far less inspired and pretty generic
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (Ayumu Watanabe, 2006): an exhilarating prehistoric adventure with a heartfelt childhood spirit and some of the best animation to ever grace an anime film
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Storywise, my only real complaints with it as an adaptation are the weird skipping around in Heavens Arena (including the whole Kastro fight!) and messing up Gon's family tree, but it still has some really good added original content like the battleship arc & Kurapika's training
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock 1 (Rintaro, 1978) is fantastic. Rintaro's direction is heinously good, his compositions and editing and his command of color and sound is unmatched by anyone in this era except Dezaki
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Doukyuusei (2016): Shouko Nakamura and Akemi Hayashi's masterpiece, a soft and sweet yet emotionally intense love story made out of the heady feeling of youth. Ends cross beginnings, insecurities meet to find understanding, searching together for an uncertain but hopeful future
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"Very seldom do you find a really great stage actor where he would use his hands or his head or any portion of his body, where he would make as much movement as the best animator made for Walt Disney". Superb piece on the limitlessness of limited animation
What do UPA, Spider-Verse and retro anime all have in common? Limited animation. The term sounds like a negative, but it's far from it.
In our newsletter this week, we look at how "limited" animation led to unlimited creativity:
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Rainbow Fireflies: An Eternal Summer Vacation (Niji-iro Hotaru: Eien no Natsuyasumi), dir. Kounosuke Uda, Toei, 2012: "Whether it be people or objects, everyone and everything has an end. This is something that we just cannot change. Even so, time flows on."
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This reminds me of Anno having to rewrite Evangelion
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to make it less gay because of the episode director threatening to quit
He actually got into heated arguments with a few staff members who resigned in protest (remember, this'd be back in 1998-99). However, Tomino remained steadfast and did not allow Turn A to become "shallow".
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Re the Ghibli/Superman debacle: the real issue here seems to be not people disagreeing on what counts as a studio animating something (no one objects to the definition in any other case), it's that people regard Ghibli as some sort of holy entity that would never sully its hands
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Everyone, please give a massive round of props to my good friend
@Toadette_IAD
and all collaborators for their fantastic work on one of the 70's hidden gems
New Moomin 52 ****
Scr: Yoshiaki Yoshida
Dir: Mitsuo Kaminashi
Anim. Dir: Hiromitsu Morita
Key Anim: Mitsuo Shindō, Masakazu Higuchi, Masateru Yoshimura; Akihiro Kanayama, Sumiko Asato, Ichiya Kaminashi
Farewell, Moominvalley...a perfect finale in every way if there was one...
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Mob Psycho: an exemplary success in putting movement and color into One's inimitable art. The best shonen anime in a long time
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Apparently the current discourse is whether Cowboy Bebop is popular in Japan. According to the someanithing anime video sales spreadsheet, it's the 4th best-selling pre-2000 anime in terms of Japanese video sales, behind only Evangelion, Gundam and Zeta
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Astronaut meme: "wait, it's all anime?" "yes, it's always been"
Anime has inspired the world for decades. Before Turning Red, it helped to spark the Disney Renaissance — even Toy Story has roots in it.
At this point, anime has been so influential for so long that you have to wonder: what if *everything* is anime now?
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A classic fairy tale adventure story with a lean runtime, a quirky and fun cast, and outrageously fun and beautiful beautiful designs, animation, backgrounds and coloring
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One of those days I saw someone asking something to the effect of "why animation history/staff/sakuga knowledge?" and while there are many deeper reasons that could be given, the fact it is the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff remains an overwhelming pragmatic reason
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Quasi-photorealistic wrestlers drawn and animated by the great Yoshiji Kigami in Kaibutsu-kun 63A (1982). Kigami, along with his colleagues at Shin-ei who soon left to form the studio Animaru-ya, were huge fans of pro wrestling
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Seizo to Numa (清造と沼, 1979): original story by Sukeo Miyajima, script by Isao Okishima, direction and animation by Ajia-do's Osamu Kobayashi and art by Kazunori Shimomichi. This is episode 36B of Group Tac's omnibus series Manga Kodomo Bunko
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Ashita no Joe
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is an episode solo key animated by Osamu Dezaki himself, uniquely in his career. But it's the not the animation that stands out the most in this episode, but the exceptional visual direction - like Dezaki is experimenting with all the tools available to him
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The solo-animated ten-minute anthology short is one of anime's lost arts, and the Ajia-do duo of Osamu Kobayashi and Tsutomu Shibayama were two of its great masters
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A masterpiece silent short film by one of the old masters, please watch it if you haven't yet
From: The Portrait Studio (2013), dir. Takashi Nakamura, Studio Colorido
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My co-worker: "has anybody here watched Evangelion?"
Me: raises hand
Him: "can you explain it to me?"
Me: "oh, buddy, you asked the right person"
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Joe's always been a rebel, and his boxing is an act of rebellion against everything that says life is meaningless or worthless. He knows there's no magnificent place over the mountain, and yet he keeps running towards it, again and again. Not a tragic figure, but a Sisyphean hero
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Thank you, Shunsaku-san, for finding me in this corner of the world.
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Ashita no Joe 2: "It may be for a moment, but my fire roars up so bright and hot, it's almost blinding. And then, all that remains is pure white ash. There are no embers left, just pure white ash..."
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I HAD NEVER SEEN OREKI'S SISTER'S FACE BEFORE how many new things am i gonna learn today
(of course she's hot she's Oreki's sister)
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Sailor Moon 6 is the first Ikuhara episode, so of course it's the best so far
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Some anime classics have withstood the test of age. One of these is Heidi, Girl of the Alps, Isao Takahata's first timeless masterpiece: a simple story of simple joy with a simple beauty
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So is this the day where we collectively recognize that the TV anime production model is completely bankrupt? Because I'm all in on that
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Number of anime categorized as "TV Series" that ended between 1/1 and 12/31 of each year, from AniDB
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@B0bduh
The shonen equivalent is Dragon Ball fans spending three decades arguing about power levels when their whole point in the manga is to show how foolish the villains are to rely on these numbers
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I thought this was a joke until i saw the trailer
First trailer of "The Rose of Versailles" new animated movie by MAPPA studio.
Director: Ai Yoshimura
Character Design: Mariko Oka
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto
Full video >>
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I'd never noticed before that one of the only main staff names from the original Evangelion who didn't carry over to the Rebuilds was color designer Harumi Takaboshi, and now that I think about it that might actually explain a lot about my issues with the Rebuild aesthetic
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It's hard to pick a favorite character when you have the trio of squatching-stretching triangular evil cat henchmen...
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On the left: Hiroyuki Imaishi, Kill la Kill
On the right: Hiroshi Nagahama, Mushishi Zoku Shou
I rest my case.
http://t.co/hh9AXjIHL6
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Mamoru Hosoda x Nobuyuki Takeuchi x You Yoshinari, the kind of team you can only find on Utena
Key Animation: Yoh Yoshinari (吉成 曜)
Anime: Shoujo Kakumei Utena (少女革命ウテナ) (1997)
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The background art definitely does steal the show, with a team led by the brilliant Yamako Ishikawa that includes such geniuses as Nizo Yamamoto, Kazuo Oga and Mitsuharu Miyamae
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I feel knowledge about staff in a wider sense (not just animators, but including animators) is also important to dispel both the (normier) myth of the studio as a signifier of quality, and the (more sophisticated) myth of the lonesome auteur out of whom alone genius proceeds
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I'm glad Shonen Jump adaptations have mostly moved on to a more reasonable production model than "one episode a week for two decades"
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Case in point. Literal shot-by-shot recreation but worse due to terrible photography and coloring choices
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Tomonori Kogawa vs Takeshi Honda AD
Its crazy to think that what we know as eva was just ever so slightly different in a few places when people watched it for the first time, I know this is standard for anime but still
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Ikuhara is a deconstruction of storyboards
(source:
http://t.co/7laddFolyw)
http://t.co/7v7uxsqiJU
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but the most legendary character in the movie is without a doubt the Witch, thanks to her design and animations by the peerless Atsuko Fukushima, the brilliant cross-gender performance by Kei Tomiyama, and of course the random Koji Nanke musical interlude
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Sugino is the sole AD, and almost the entire show was animated by a small team of about 20 animators, including such great names as Ryutaro Nakamura, Koji Morimoto, Atsuko Fukushima, Manabu Ohashi, Ikuo Fudanoki and Shinji Otsuka. An unparalleled level of aesthetic consistency...
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Mappa graphics card sakuga has to be the funniest anitwitter event since the gay space meteor manga
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Congrats to Gainax for copyright striking something they probably don't actually own and cannot legally release
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The Poseidon arc delivered. Saint Seiya delivered. This show was so fucking good
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Galaxy Express 999 (Rintaro, 1979): a very solid coming-of-age adventure story with great visuals and a truly incredible soundtrack. It's a bit rough around the edges but I definitely see why it's a classic
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Just finished rewatching the first arc of Utena. Was quite impressed by
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, "Unfulfilled Juri" (SB Mamoru Hosoda, AD Akemi Hayashi, KA Yumeta Company), whose formalistic yet emotionally charged direction brings to mind some of Hosoda's best works from his peak on 1999~2006.
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Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Noboru Ishiguro and Shoji Kawamori, 1984): just an ordinary love song
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Saint Seiya: the Heated Battle of the Gods (1988) has a script as predictable and lacking in substance as the usual Takao Koyama franchise fare, but also outerworldly visuals with Shigeyasu Yamauchi direction, Shingo Araki/Michi Himeno duo KA and Tadao Kubota backgrounds
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I love Ghibli movies, and I beg people to please stop worshipping the concept of "Ghibli"
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Hideaki Anno is such a big fan of Oniisama e... that he wrote a message for the booklet in the original LD release and another for the recent BD re-release, but I can't find either one on the internet ;_;
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