Holy crap the animation in this is absolutely wonderful.

Tatake, Tatake, TATAKEEE! Oh shit I love that theme song so much (and the first opening in general). http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwxf4v_ashita-no-joe-op_creation#.UP1v3PIwLTo About halfway they switch to a different opening animation made up of existing episode footage. It's more plot-relevant...

It doesn't bother me either, I actually meant it in the "before anyone thinks this is a new serie" kind of sense. Well, I didn't necessarily feel the need to specify it since googling "young animator training project" would have been enough. But yeah I guess I should hav...

This post by Peter Chung is probably relevant to this thread http://www.pelleas.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1707#p1707 I'm curious, who doesn't consider Akira an anime and what is their reasoning? I've never met such a person myself. Hiroki Azuma said that in one of his old Evangelion articles from th...

Man, that doesn't sadden me at all. Shorts/short films can be far more memorable than entire series. Character design sheets: http://i.imgur.com/T8GGsyt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FjLbAj8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5CmcxwK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7awpwAe.jpg Some Yoshinari-drawn backgrounds (the dude...

Ashita no Joe.


It's very good and deserves every bit of its success.

I really do not see how gurren lagann is the best mecha ever made. It copies off of not only gunbuster/diebuster but also flcl. Also when you really look at gurren lagann all it is is a bunch of highly exagerated super robots. Believe me I like gurren lagann but I think it was a just a bit overrate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqBssEBpihA http://i.imgur.com/PML8z64.jpg Release date: March 2nd Director, character design, animation direction: Yoh Yoshinari AKA one of the most impressive (ex) Gainax animators and the guy who drew a bunch of Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon fan art that keeps...

Tatami is hardly sci-fi because they never, at any point, imply that the time travel stuff is scientific - at the end they

I'm not sure if they're really saying those things though, but defining certain anime aesthetics as inherently Japanese. After all. Tezuka started a lot of what we now consider common anime aesthetics and there's no way Murakami & everyone else don't know that the guy was hugely ...

I'm still kind of curious where the Tsurumaki+Imaishi+Sadamoto thing came from, since I'd like to read up on it (or at least bother a friend to translate it and THEN read it)

No I just meant before Summer Wars. Also I think Anno along Tsurumaki+Imaishi+Sadamoto has commented on Strike Witches in public (I could be getting this wrong) before but that it was more humorous and to support a friend. The blog posts are about something happening in private. I'm act...

I knew Murakami's influence/relationship with Hosoda went back earlier Do you mean it came up before Our War Game? I really don't think it did, OWG came out before Superflat Monogram and I don't think they've collaborated before that. Which is why I owe the "internet world"...

And to come back to Murakami, the net itself in Summer Wars has become one large superflat exhibition celebrating a now universal Japanese aesthetic. It's all so very soft and cozy compared to the 80s stuff though. I know someone wrote a blog post about this but I forgot where. I think I just d...

A little out of my depth, but a style or trend can be identified in retrospect (indeed, most are so identified and then named); so Eva could be superflat before any Superflat manifesto was published. I don't know, I don't think the idea of self-reflexively looking at otaku culture i...

Are we discussing Takashi Murakami here as ignoring US influence? I mean, I just finished reading _Little Boy_ and Murakami himself discussed the US and Japan quite a bit and the military aspects in particular. The volume spends a lot of time on popular tokusatsu and nuclear bombs, which surely cou...

Some interviews of him I've read (one I actually used to have was in finnish paper made when his art exhibition came to helsinki maybe 5 or so years ago, it was cool stuff) beg to disagree as well as Hiroki Azuma's writings on the guy. Do you recall what he said in those? Besides, w...

I want to bump this because it's an interesting discussion This kind of disgust at general "infantilization" and longing for Japan of ye olde with values and respectable role models seems to be pretty common among Japanese intelligentsia and smartypants from Murakami to Anno to (RIP) Satos...

Gonna have to thank 1731298478 for the extra line from the Otaku Talk thing, I didn't know there was more to it. I find Kaichiro Morikawa's ideas about otaku especially gravitating towards things normal people find awful questionable and easily argued against (as Okada did), but also...

I think it's a bit more complicated than that, because Tsurumaki sees Evangelion and maybe Sailor Moon as works that intended to produce "moe." However, Eva did that by leaving gaps, instead of by trying to make the audience love its characters. Still, overall its probably true that &...