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[Recommended Watch] Lines In Motion

Title: Delicious in Dungeon – Fundamentals of Character Design | Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting If you’re looking for insight into animation techniques, then Lines In…

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Mar 25, 2023 • Subscribe

Recommended Watch: WhytManga

Title: How to Character Design | Easy Tips and Tricks for BeginnersSource: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting With almost 500k followers on YouTube, many of you reading…

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May 28, 2022 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] The Apothecary Diaries

Source: Crunchyroll/Toho Animation Studio x OLM, The Apothecary Diaries By: Katherine Cañeba | @kcserinlee We are well into the winter anime season, and a certain show called The…

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Mar 4, 2024 • Subscribe

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[Recommended Watch] The Apothecary Diaries

Source: Crunchyroll/Toho Animation Studio x OLM, The Apothecary Diaries By: Katherine Cañeba | @kcserinlee We are well into the winter anime season, and a certain show called The Apothecary...

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Mar 4, 2024 • Subscribe

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Dead End: Paranormal Park (Recommended Watch)

Source: Episode 10, Dead End: Paranormal Park By: Beata Garrett | @clearsummers I didn’t know Dead End: Paranormal Park existed until a few days ago, but it has…

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Jun 23, 2022 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] I’m in Love with the Villainess (Light Spoilers)

Source: I’m in Love with the Villainess, Chapter 1 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Have you ever found yourself falling in love with a fictional character? Maybe…

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Sep 23, 2023 • Subscribe

I'm in Love with the Villainess

[Recommended Watch] UN-GO: A Missed Series

Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Years ago, when I first watched UN-GO, I thought for sure this series would hit BIG. If not that year, maybe…

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Dec 31, 2022 • Subscribe

UN-GO

Recommended Watch: ONE PIECE Official YouTube Channel 

By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting If you haven’t checked it out yet—now is the time to catch up on the ONE PIECE RED live streams that have…

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Jul 23, 2022 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] “How Queer Characters Have Evolved In Children’s Animation | Movies Insider”

Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood This video from Insider came out two years ago but still stands as a great, brief summarization of LGBTQ+ representation in (predominantly) US…

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Jun 10, 2023 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] I’m in Love with the Villainess (Light Spoilers)

Source: I’m in Love with the Villainess, Chapter 1 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Have you ever found yourself falling in love with a fictional character? Maybe it’s their captivating personality or...

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Sep 23, 2023 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] My Student Spirit Gets A 10/10

Title: My Student Spirit | S1 E1 | You shall not pass | Source: https://youtu.be/gKQtFqA9Tvc By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting The world of comic book creators is a diverse and vibrant…

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Apr 5, 2023 • Subscribe

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Recommended Watch: Anime’s Hidden Four-Act Story Structure (kishoutenketsu)

Title: Anime’s Hidden Four Act Story Structure | Source: I’ve been learning more about Japanese narrative forms lately. This idea was something introduced to me by a professor,…

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Jul 9, 2022 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] My Student Spirit Gets A 10/10

Title: My Student Spirit | S1 E1 | You shall not pass | Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting The world of comic book creators is a…

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Apr 5, 2023 • Subscribe

Phoenix

Keith Haring in Motion

Plus: global animation news and a bizarre spin on 'Don Quixote.'

Animation Obsessive

Aug 16, 2021 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] Winter 2024 Must See Dungeon Break: Solo Leveling

Source: Solo Leveling, Chapter 110 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting You all probably don’t need me to say it, but Solo Leveling is a must-see going into…

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Dec 23, 2023 • Subscribe

Solo Leveling

'The Cow': Paint in Motion

On Alexander Petrov's seminal paint-on-glass film.

Animation Obsessive

May 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Recommended Peach Boy Riverside Watch Order So It Actually Makes Sense

Chronological Peach Boy Riverside Watch Order

Recommend Me Anime

Mar 29, 2023 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside

[Recommended Watch] Fall 2023 Season Must-See Is “Sousou no Frieren”

Source: Sousou no Frieren, Chapter 2 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Sousou no Frieren is a fantasy series that follows the journey of Frieren, a powerful young…

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Sep 30, 2023 • Subscribe

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

[Recommended Watch] “How Queer Characters Have Evolved In Children’s Animation | Movies Insider”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXeG-LGx25Y&ab_channel=Insider  By: Peggy Sue Wood This video from Insider came out two years ago but still stands as a great, brief summarization of LGBTQ+...

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Jun 10, 2023 • Subscribe

326 – Manga in Motion 45 – Promare

We’re a year late to the zeitgeist but this episode the hosts review the 2019 hit anime film Promare! Also Morgana also talks about Junji Ito’s Remina and…

Manga Machinations

Dec 20, 2020 • Subscribe

Ranking of Kings, Promare

288 – Manga in Motion 41 – BEASTARS

It finally time for Manga Machinations to review the BEASTARS anime! We have A LOT to say about the choices made adapting Paru Itagaki’s phenomenal manga and we’re…

Manga Machinations

Mar 30, 2020 • Subscribe

345 – Manga in Motion 50 – Homunculus

This week we take a quiz on foreign manga publishers and talk about book publisher Shueisha creating an app for independent game developers! Then we examine yet another…

Manga Machinations

May 2, 2021 • Subscribe

463 – Manga in Motion 59 – Belle

This week we talk about Mamoru Hosoda's Belle! What does dakazu have to say about the singing?! We also share our thoughts on the new Netflix One Piece…

Manga Machinations

Sep 3, 2023 • Subscribe

One Piece

Motion/Movement

Writing about animation isn’t easy. In my experience, the two pitfalls you’re bound to run into at some point are evaluation and description. Evaluation means that you have…

Animétudes

Feb 6, 2021 • Subscribe

[Recommended Watch] Fall 2023 Season Must See Is “Sousou no Frieren”

Source: Sousou no Frieren, Chapter 2 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Sousou no Frieren is a fantasy series that follows the journey of Frieren, a powerful young elf-mage who has lived for…

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Sep 30, 2023 • Subscribe

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

400 – Manga in Motion 56 – Doukyusei -Classmates-

Welcome to our very special 400th episode! To celebrate, we’ve recorded a video version! Watch us show off our physical media! Also, we continue our Pride and Panels celebration of…

Manga Machinations

Jun 20, 2022 • Subscribe

364 – Manga in Motion 49 – Perfect Blue

Night 2 of October Extravaganza has us looking at Satoshi Kon’s directorial debut with the psychological thriller Perfect Blue! We also have a spoiler-filled discussion on BEASTARS volume…

Manga Machinations

Oct 10, 2021 • Subscribe

BEASTARS, Perfect Blue

397 – Manga in Motion 55 – Nicky Larson

For the final installment of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective we’re joined by our friend Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast to discuss the 2018 French action comedy…

Manga Machinations

May 29, 2022 • Subscribe

BEASTARS, City Hunter, Star Wars: Visions

294 – Manga in Motion 43 – Paranoia Agent

On this episode dakazu finds the perfect manga for Manga Machinations with Olympia Kyklos and learns that Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 isn’t completely terrible. Then we cancel…

Manga Machinations

May 10, 2020 • Subscribe

Photography in Motion – The Asadas! (Movie Review)

As many people know, I am very much a fan of viewing movies in the theaters. With new norms and social distancing in place in this times, but…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Oct 23, 2020 • Subscribe

[Recommended Read] Pandora Hearts

Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting When I think about Alice in Wonderland, I think about a professor who told me that Alice’s story is one about…

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Nov 11, 2023 • Subscribe

[Recommended Read] Comic Editing

Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Comic editing and book editing are different in several ways. Comics include layout and visual elements; there are scripts like movies…

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Dec 9, 2023 • Subscribe

Four more recommended movies.

It's been awhile but here are four movie movies I have added to my recommended title listsings. Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)Intimidation (1960)Midnight Eagle (2007)The Sea is Watching (2002)

Koyagidō Kanwa子山羊堂閑話

Jun 14, 2021 • Subscribe

[Recommended Read] Comic Editing

Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Bakuman By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Comic editing and book editing are different in several ways. Comics include layout and visual elements;...

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Dec 9, 2023 • Subscribe

[Recommended Read] Pandora Hearts

Source: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR751Q2ZY/pandorahearts By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting When I think about Alice in Wonderland, I think about a professor who told me that Alice’s story is...

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Nov 11, 2023 • Subscribe

Alice in Wonderland, Pandora Hearts, The Case Study of Vanitas

Best Train Lines for Living in Tokyo: The Tozai Line

What makes living on the Tozai line so great? 

GaijinPot

Dec 3, 2023 • Subscribe

Iidesan, Fukushima’s Odd Border: Gods, Mountains, Lines in the Sand

In western Fukushima Prefecture, an odd salient of territory extends, wedged between Niigata and Yamagata Prefectures. So why is it there?

Unseen Japan

Jan 24, 2022 • Subscribe

373 – Manga in Motion 50 – Netflix Cowboy Bebop

Join us this week as we examine Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop! We breakdown everything from the stellar casting to the questionable story structure! We also finally…

Manga Machinations

Dec 12, 2021 • Subscribe

BEASTARS, Cowboy Bebop

396 – Manga in Motion 54 – City Hunter Anime

For part 3 of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective, we watch the original 1987 anime! dakazu also discusses his discomfort with reading Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni…

Manga Machinations

May 22, 2022 • Subscribe

BEASTARS, City Hunter

My List of Recommended Manga

Is this a Buzzfeed style post? Oh God, absolutely not. Unless… I think I’ve read enough manga over the last half-decade to be able to compile a list…

Kohai Says

Aug 11, 2020 • Subscribe

Beelzebub

20 Recommended Shows From 2020

Okay, so here’s the thing: this was initially supposed to be a “Top 10 Anime of 2020” post. I had every intention of doing that, but then someone…

The Backloggers

Dec 30, 2020 • Subscribe

Great Pretender, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Humanity between the lines: Tsubame in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

“I realised something working on it. That to me, life is about working on stuff like this. And there’s nothing I can do about that, now.” Tsubame on…

Bateszi Anime Blog

Mar 21, 2020 • Subscribe

Lines and Grays! Work-in-Progress #1: Turn “A” Dual Build

I just noticed that whenever I’m doing these dual builds, the first work-in-progress post often happens after building the head and torso. You can check the other ones…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

May 21, 2021 • Subscribe

Gundam Build Fighters

Independent Japanese Animation & The Commercial Industry In 2020: Blurring The Lines

While the world as a whole is in a pretty bad place, it’s been quite a strong season for independent animation creators. If you need some cheering up,…

Sakuga Blog

Mar 18, 2020 • Subscribe