I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?
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Why is “Future Diary’s” Yuno (and yanderes in general) so appealing?
In the first entry in the Dusty Disc Review series, Mike watches his DVDs of Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey), a memorable, if slightly uneven, example of symbolic and allegorical storytelling in anime.
Meeting, eating, and joking with our friends from the ABTS: the Ani-Blogo-Twito-Sphere.
Or, how we totally rocked those connections at Comic Con! Sort of.
You might have heard about the various troubles we’ve encountered with the Mikunopolis concert videos we shot. This is the inside story of what happened.
What it was like working in the trenches—and in the aftermath—of this summer’s big conventions.
Or, Full Court Press: a meditation on what it means to be fan and press at a convention, and how you can never go back again once you’ve gotten your first press badge.
What congoing and convention coverage has meant to me. Contains unreleased photos and video.
And here is the last interview I’m posting from this summer’s conventions: a conversation with character designer and animator Akihiko Yamashita. He’s best known for serving as animation director on numerous Studio Ghibli projects, including Ponyo and The Cat Returns, as well as being one of the two character designers on Giant Robo. In this [...]
This is one of the richest and most detailed interviews from this summer! We interviewed the president of Madhouse Studio, Masao Maruyama, together with writer/director Sunao Katabuchi, who is perhaps best known as the director of Black Lagoon and Mai Mai Miracle. We get into real depth about who they liked to work with, what [...]
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