Hipólita

@hipolita.itch.io

https://hipolita.itch.io/ Trans lesbian TTRPG designer, writer, consultant, editor and general spinner of plates from Argentina. I love my girlfriend. Communist, sudaca and a bitch all in one.

I always love writing for Anime Herald, and the OVA article was so much to research for. Grab a copy if you want to hear about format wars, the effect of the Japanese economic bubble and burst on the format itself and how the OVA as a oncept became staging grounds for experimental animation.

Samantha Ferreira Is Very Tired@sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's a good book. Our whole team is super talented, and the articles this time around are killer. My favorites were @hipolita.itch.io's "Loss of the OVA" and @alltsunnodere.bsky.social's "'A pack comes with both danger and safety at the same time': Navigating difference in Journal with Witch"

Huge victory for Woke 2 warriors and Localization Defenders to have the Jaadugar localization do the "Izayaka pub" thing but for Islamic concepts like "iddah mourning period".

I have one million thoughts on Zero Parades For Dead Spies Compared to Disco Elysium, it's more grounded while also being more ambitious. It's less funny and fantastical and less suffused with haunting sadness, but in exchange it's sharper and meaner and tighter. Unpolished masterpiece afaic

Happy Kamiina Botan Friday to those who celebrate This show has my heart in a chokehold and I've been loving this little tradition of getting drunk on Fridays to catch the new episode

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Writing for MORIAH was an absolute delight. Kyle has got something truly special here and I'm proud that my words, insufficient as they are, are part of this book. Go back this.

Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah@percypropa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Forty days till we launch! Crowdfunding for a physical release of MORIAH, which still contains the original roads of @hipolita.itch.io and @smartyn.bsky.social along with three of my creation! Follow along to see what else is in store! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Kamiina Botan #04 makes excellent use of 間ma, negative space. While the script has uncharacteristically (for anime) frequent and long silence, the storyboard focuses heavily on characters appearing vivisected, bifurcated or narrowly framed in dozens of shots.

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Gin-san, who key animated Kamiina Botan el 03, also did episode 4 of the delightful mono (manga by the same author as Yuru Camp) and his sketchy wobbly style was in full display there too

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The JP title "Kamiina Botan Her Drunken Figure Is Like A Lily Flower" plays on Botan (Peony), lilies (yuri) symbolizing lesbianism and a proverb comparing female beauty to flowers: 立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花 (stand tall like a peony, sit elegantly like a tree peony, walk gracefully like a white lily)

Having no chief animation director, Kamiina Botan lets each episode's key animator (this week: obvious SHAFT fanboy Gin-san) express their self-indulgent creativity, their individuality and their unique quirks and idiosyncracies. What a beautiful show.

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