A comprehensive list of Sugino’s anime industry work, and other Japanese resources that contain interviews.
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The Other Half of the Golden Combo: Akio Sugino Interview – Animation and Akio Sugino (Part 5/6)
“I went back and forth to America over the span of a few years and designed these characters. But ultimately I got dropped from [Nemo]. It was really…
The Other Half of the Golden Combo: Akio Sugino Interview – Work Outside of Tokyo Movie (Part 3/6)
“Yes. I distinctly remembering meeting with (Isao) Takahata several times in Sakuragaoka. We’d have two hour meetings just to talk about 30 shots.”
The Other Half of the Golden Combo: Akio Sugino Interview – Establishing Annapuru (Part 4/6)
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The Other Half of the Golden Combo: Akio Sugino Interview – Mushi Production Era (Part 1/6)
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The Other Half of the Golden Combo: Akio Sugino Interview – Madhouse and Tokyo Movie (Part 2/6)
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The history of TMS – Part 4 : The golden age
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Interview with Akio Jissoji
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The history of TMS – Part 6 : Lupin the Third
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Dongs of History: Golden Kamuy
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Looking Back on a Half-Year of Work
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The History of Tatsunoko – 6 – Repetitions
Without any aim to be comprehensive, this article will follow these developments and focus on two shows: 1974’s Hurricane Polymar and 1976’s Gowapper 5 Godam. Although very different,…
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In 1973, anime celebrated its first decade of existence. But the anime industry in 1973 was almost a world apart from what it was 10 years earlier :…
Sword Art Online Volume 2: The Rough Draft’s other half
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Street Fighter 6 and the History of “Modern Controls”
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A Brief History of Hideaki Anno’s Work on Mobile Suit Gundam
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December Bonus Review #4: History of the World- Part 1
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The history of TMS – Part 5 : Becoming Tokyo Movie Shinsa
The second half of the 1970’s was no doubt a transitional period for Tokyo Movie. As a whole, the anime industry had set up a stable structure that…
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A Brief History of Anime Penguins – PART TWO!!
In the light of Polar Bear’s Cafe and it’s high Penguin content, it’s time to look back once again at the penguins through the history of anime. CHECK…
Behind the Monogatari Series – Akio Watanabe
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Persona 4 Golden (Part 10)
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Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun Episode 6
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The History of the Seifuku
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The History and Production of Turn A Gundam: Part III – Prelude
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Persona 4 Golden (Part 7: Tutorial, Part 2)
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The Half of It on Netflix
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Kyoto Animation’s subcontract work – Part 1
Before Kyoto Animation started producing their own anime (with Munto OVA in 2003) resp. started serving as a prime contractor, the studio had mainly been known for the…
Kyoto Animation’s subcontract work – Part 2
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Commandment COMBO! Four Knights Of The Apocalypse Chapter 69 BREAKDOWN
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The post at the end of #TheJCS (part 6)
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Persona 4 Golden, Part 11 (August)
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Persona 4 Golden Streaming Part 4
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The Golden Age of Isekai
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Requiem of the Golden Witch
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Lupin the 3rd Part 6
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The Executioner and Her Way of Life Episode 6: Slashing Through History
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The History of Anime & Japan
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The History of Hentai Manga
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The Early History of Falcom
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