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More light on Turn A
I have more things I want to do here, but for now work has me very busy. In the meantime, though, let me point out that my friend…
The rise of sight, the fall of sound
Perhaps we don’t often think on the settings in which people watched older TV anime. But quite basic facets of TV’s nature have changed through the decades, in…
The School of Kanada
Over at Animétudes, Matteo’s begun an exciting series on the career and influence of the animator Yoshinori Kanada. I played a small role in helping to prepare his…
Ten years of caught hearts
Heartcatch Precure ended about ten years back.
Nostalgia
Sometimes I’m accused of nostalgia for older anime. My youth makes that impossible, though: a person can only feel nostalgia for something they’ve known. I’m relatively young. I…
What Sakugabooru isn’t
Sakugabooru unquestionably stands among the good things which’ve emerged in anime talk since I started watching. These days, even non-specialists use it: people like me, who aren’t saku…
Daitarn 3 is great
Daitarn 3 is great. I’m not sure whether it’s good, but it’s definitely great.
Anim’Archive 2014–21
I thought someone should mark the end of the Anim’Archive project, a collector’s effort to scan and upload their collection of anime ephemera. They kept methodically at this,…
Anim’Archive 2014–21
I thought someone should mark the end of the Anim’Archive project, a collector’s effort to scan and upload their collection of anime ephemera. They kept methodically at this,…
Some 2021 anime anniversaries
At each year’s turn I like to list some of the anime anniversaries in the coming months. A dry, clerical task? Yes, but I think it grants us…
The Crunchyroll sale
AT&T’s sale of Crunchyroll to Funimation (well, to Sony) offers us a chance to talk about the industry. Or perhaps about The Industry: the phrase often appears in…
0080 in Advent
Christmas always brings thoughts of War in the Pocket, for it takes place at Christmas, and I first watched it at Christmas, longer ago than I care to…
The nascent OVA
Over at Heisei Etranger, Austin’s posted a new interview translation which deserves a read. It covers a short mid-eighties conversation in Animage with Shigeru Watanabe, planner of Dallos (19…
Dezaki, illuminated
A useful tweet with some 2004 documentary screenshots explaining an analogue lighting technique: [Something like: How did Dezaki manage to add these famous light beams which one finds…
Anime’s aspect ratios
Aspect ratios go unremarked, but few things can be more fundamental to an anime than its shape. To my knowledge, few things have been said on the topic.…
Simoun
Aer loves to fly, and to shoot down the enemy. By flying she staves off a difficult choice: pilot-priestesses like her escape the general societal demand that children—all…
Anime isn’t a medium
‘Anime is a medium, not a genre’, they say. But the word doesn’t normally mean a medium in English.
On saying good night
Since the UK entered lockdown in March, I’ve tweeted one or more anime screencaps and the phrase ‘Good night, and good luck’ when I go to bed. (When…
Repetition once again
After my post about the original Pretty Cure, which mentioned the show’s use of repetition, cinco_bajeena reminded me of repetition’s gradual rise to thematic prominence within the story…
sdshamshel on Gold Lightan
In starting this blog I wanted, among other things, to have a place to note helpful and/or fun posts elsewhere. I was delighted to see a new blog…
Overscan in anime
Let’s talk about what happens in the bottom left corner of this shot from Gunbuster.
The labours of Yoshiyuki Tomino
I recently watched Heavy Metal L-Gaim (1984). Or, rather, I recently finished L-Gaim: I started watching it on 14 July 2009, and so it’s become the anime I’ve taken…
Big hand for Govarian
Twitter user @DogBarkingBees recently alerted us all to this moment in Psycho Armour Govarian (1983). Govarian shows every sign of hasty craft, although, in fairness, I’d rather watch it…
Of making anime lists…
…there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh! For a good few years now, I’ve tried to greet each new anime season by…
Kazuhisa Kondo interviewed at Zimmerit
In starting this blog I hoped, among other things, to grant myself some free space to take notes on items published elsewhere. Yesterday threw up a good opportunity:…
The two of them are still Pretty Cure
I sat down with a friend across twenty-four Saturday evenings and watched the original Futari wa Precure again. Writing about one’s favourites always throws up challenges, and for…
Anime’s shift to digital colouring and photography
We know that anime shifted from an analogue production process to a digital one. I can’t find a very simple, understandable account of the shift, of the sort…
Golgo 13
Many know the 1983 Golgo 13 film—when they know it at all—only for its brief, early and ill-boding experiments in the use of 3DCG animation. This is a…
Impact frames
I’d like to note this recent interview at artist_unknown with Yuu Yoshiyama. Yoshiyama’s stylish impact frames, effects and (on occasion) starkly-shaded faces have caught even my untaught eye…
Anime’s history is brief
Someone who worked on Astro Boy (1963) directed an anime film which came out this year. The whole mass-broadcast history of anime lies within living memory. More, it…
13 Sentinels remembers love
I finished playing 13 Sentinels last night. I enjoyed it a great deal. I think the lush 2D story segments will charm and delight almost anyone with their…