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Dandadan Production Notes #01-04
Now that the first arc of the Dandadan anime is over, we can look back at how it represents its series director’s extraordinary obsession with internal logic, the…
Garden of Remembrance
Yamada Naoki is a modern anime auteur. She started at Kyoto Animation, where she became one of the youngest directors in its history, helmin...
Liz and the Blue Bird, Tamako -love story-, Tamako Market, The Colors Within, A Silent Voice
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Kimi no Iro / The Colors Within: Naoko Yamada’s Love Spins Round and Round [Annecy 2024]
Naoko Yamada’s new film Kimi no Iro / The Colors Within is gorgeous, highly entertaining on the surface, but as densely packed as ever. Through colors, light, faith,…
K-ON!, The Colors Within, A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird
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Kimi no Iro / The Colors Within: A Polychrome Prayer For Art [Annecy 2024]
Naoko Yamada’s recent film draws from its relationship with nature, art and the creative process, spiritual imagery, and very specific choices of instruments for its teenage band—all of…
Sunday of the DedededeDead: Crunchyroll accquires the rights to the DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION anime
Yo, Sakaki here! We've got great news from Crunchyroll: They've announced they'll be streaming the Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction ani...
SPY x FAMILY, The Orbital Children, Typhoon Noruda, Digimon: Digital Monsters, My Hero Academia
Weekly Round-Up, 24-30 April 2024: Skateboarding Josei, pixiv TOS Changes, and They Were Eleven
AniFem Round-Up Queerness and the Power of “Subtext” in Sound! Euphonium & Liz and the Blue Bird Why sapphic audiences were drawn to Eupho, what makes it frustrating…
Jack Jeanne OST
Yeah, I dont know why I didnt make one of these sooner. Heres a long overdue index for my reviews, for this one being specifically for everything I…
Shonen Onmyoji, Natsuiro Kiseki, Rurouni Kenshin, Haibane Renmei, Land of the Lustrous
I visited the real life setting of my favorite anime, Sound Euphonium.
Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Part travel vlog, part video essay, part documentary, this is a love letter to a TV show, a city, and an animation studio…
Sound! Euphonium, Liz and the Blue Bird, Maps, Treasure Island
Liz and the Blue Bird – Quiet Symphony
Liz and the Blue Bird is a side story of the popular Sound Euphonium franchise. It took me years to finally watch it. Was it worth the wait?
Yuri of Absence in Liz and the Blue Bird
In a 2018 panel with Rikimaru Mizoguchi, Iori Miyazawa said, I think pairings between a ceiling and a floor are commonly accepted in the BL community, but I…
Liz and the Blue Bird (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
A few years after their release of Sound! Euphonium Season 1, Anime Limited now have their hands on the spin-off film making its UK debut on Blu-ray.
Q1 2023 Solicitations for UK Anime Home Video Releases
2023 for the UK anime scene begins with another mixture of new and re-releases. Notable inclusions are Aria the Origination, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Liz and the Blue Bird,…
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow (Manga series review)
Review of the yuri manga series "A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow" by Makoto Hagino
Sound! Euphonium, Anne of Green Gables, Liz and the Blue Bird, Maria Watches Over Us, Maria Watches Over Us
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 8, 2022
Yuri Anime Crunchyroll has picked up Liz and the Blue Bird, say ANN’s Alex Mateo. I really hope you’ll watch this, if you haven’t already. It was quite…
Doki Doki News: Slam Dunk, New Nijisanji, and Changes at Right Stuf
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of December 4th through 10th! Check out the…
Liz and the Blue Bird
By Andrew Osmond. Liz and the Blue Bird was released in Japan in April 2018, less than two years after A Silent Voice. It was an ideal film…
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Liz and the Blue Bird, Maria Watches Over Us, Someday's Dreamers, Wandering Son, After the Rain
A Glimpse of Garden of Remembrance with Naoko Yamada
A summary of Naoko Yamada and Eunyoung Choi’s presentation of Garden of Remembrance at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The Heike Story, A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird, Lu Over the Wall
Interview: The Heike Story Music Composer Kensuke Ushio
Composer kensuke ushio, who has collaborated before with director Naoko Yamada on critically-acclaimed films such as A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird, talks about the…
Staff Picks: Our Favorite Anime of 2021
The final entry in our 2021 Staff Picks series ranks not kings, but anime — specifically those that aired in their entirety this year or ended in it. There…
A Silent Voice, Baki Hanma, Sonny Boy, The Heike Story, Keijo!!!!!!!!
Storytelling in the Midst of History: Reflections on Heike Monogatari
While the initial reception has been relatively subdued, many will no doubt look back on Heike Monogatari both for what it is and for what it represents; a…
News Update - Mon, 23 Aug 2021
"Liz the Bluebird On My Shouldeeeeer...." Allen won out, it seems, and so we get a look at Liz and the Blue Bird, which is apparently part of the…
June 2021 Review No.1 (Sound Eupho Sequel Film)
Now, while I have been following the Sound Euphonium series for some time, it took a bit longer to see the other entries. Granted, I tend to skip…
Yamada Naoko’s Liz and the Blue Bird (And A Silent Voice) — Emotions Through Camera
Through A Silent Voice, Yamada Naoko established herself as one of the greatest anime directors of our time. What followed after was her more experimental piece, Liz and…
Liz and the Blue Bird at The Leeds International Film Festival 2020
Update: Due to COVID restrictions The Leeds International Film Festival 2020 have had to move online for the whole event. The Leeds Inte...
How to Break an Egg
In an earlier piece, I wrote: “seeing the work of Kyoto Animation, with its lovable characters and environments that practically glow with warm nostalgia, I couldn’t help but…
Wonder Egg Priority – Production Notes 01-02
Wonder Egg Priority is a truly unique show, an effort by an up-and-coming star to repurpose the creative language of one of anime’s greatest directors in a way…
A (relatively) short Ikuhara primer, Naoko Yamada, and the “egg” in Wonder Egg Priority
This season’s latest critical darling, Shin Wakabayashi’s Wonder Egg Priority, has been described as, if Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum) and Naoko Yamada…
A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird, Penguindrum, Revolutionary Girl Utena, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
Nonverbal Storytelling in Liz and the Blue Bird
Here I talk about how Liz and the Blue Bird uses its intro and outro first to introduce us to the main characters and later show their growth,…
KyoAni’s Present And Future: Naoko Yamada and Haruka Fujita Interview
It’s time to examine Kyoto Animation’s present and future with an interview featuring their current creative leader and the up-and-coming star who looks up to her! Naoko Yamada…
The Haunting Beauty of Liz and the Blue Bird
Liz and the Blue Bird is the most beautiful film I have ever seen, let’s just get that out of the way. Every single frame is so painstakingly…
The Decade in Review : The English Language Adaptation Industry and Fandom Part 1
With the Japanese side of things out of the way, I thought it might be fun to look at the English adaptation side of things. It’s taken me...
Cardcaptor Sakura, Patema Inverted, Star Blazers 2199, A Silent Voice, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
The Decade in Review: The Japanese Industry
I said I wouldn’t be updating this blog for a while, but I remembered that I was working on a two-post "decade in review" which I had star...
In This Corner of the World, Macross, Sailor Moon Crystal, Space Adventure Cobra, Blood Blockade Battlefront
Liz and the Blue Bird : Beyond Realism
This essay is dedicated to all the artists at Kyoto Animation who died in the 2019 fire attack and whose painstakingly beautiful work is here celebrated. What seems…
[One] This post is reserved for Kyoto Animation
I have no idea if I’ll do Kyoto Animation justice after all that happened this year, so here goes nothing. The moment I hear of a friend or…
Kyoto Animation Christmas concert donates proceeds to arson victims
A celebration of the wonderful works of Kyoto Animation came in the form of a Sound! Euphonium Christmas concert held this week. All proceeds from the concert were…
Eggs and Admiration: A Reflection on Liz and the Blue Bird & Ririka Kenzaki
When you meet someone like this, you’ll know they’re not the same as anyone you’ve met before. When I was in my second year of high school, there…
New title: Sound Euphonium Films Preview Interview
This is another translation that I originally translated in 2017 to run on another site, but due to various circumstances, it was never run. With the recent arson…
The Top Anime of 2018
There’s something to be said for putting down a more permanent record of your favorite anime of the year. I didn’t do it last year and I realized…
12 Anime Things that Made Me Happy in 2018
2018 was yet another year of evolution in my journey as an anime fan. Throughout the year, I spent less time watching anime and less time engaging in…