Rough translation of excerpts from Aoi Yuki's interview on "Walpurgisnacht Rising" with Mitsuru Arima (阿仁間満) from MANTANWEB (no spoilers) Original article: mantan-web.jp/article/2026...
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sakuga dork; avgeek; many things besides. I help with http://artistunknown.info and allegedly run Why Animation? on youtube. The Union forever: down with the traitors; up to the stars 💫
You never know what random things you'll notice going through old files. For instance: Shitpost I Made For Tumblr Which Only I Thought Was Funny 0x3A53 #kb»o
Has anyone written prose fiction (or poetry for that matter) in IPA in any language? Like it'd be an inaccessible gimmick ultimately, but there are so many things you *could* do by writing the exact stress and exact realization of every utterance. Writing is already a highly intentional medium #kb»r
I am not vaguely an emotivist, nor do I believe "desert" to be completely vacuous, but the way people talk about deserving is so obviously just them emoting at the world 95% of the time that I can hear the spirit of AJ Ayer whispering to my ear #kb»r
We had a chance to talk with Matsubara Hidenori at Otakon 2025 about how he came to be a character animator, attitudes about "realism," approaches to layouts, and of course, a bit about his spectacular work on GQuuuuuuX! artistunknown.info/2026/08/22/i...
One of the best things about The Fifth Element is all the familiar character actors looking utterly baffled through the whole movie
We are back with issue #132 of this project We are also back at 300dpi (thanks to the person who mentioned that) Next time we will be delving into the complete run from 1994 179 images, link to the entire issue at the end.
"When my boss asks 'any questions?', I'd say, 'N'nya, none, thank you!' because 'n'nya' is Kagoshima dialect for 'no,' but I just realized they didn't know that and for a full year and a half thought I was a 27yo woman who sometimes speaks Cat."
Oh, the discourse has already evolved into tendentious metadiscourse? That tracks I guess My opinion is that it's unlikely Lara ends without seriously addressing Lara/Mari (it'd be baffling and a huge error if not), but also people were too confident about where exactly this cartoon was going #kb»o
Nate A.M.@kbnet.bsky.social · 5d agoThe mix of "interloper guy who is genuinely alright and whose alright-ness is thematic" and "mildly obtuse semiotic cues" seems almost perfectly calibrated to cause maximum unease about getting baited. Fun twist: actually she could find love with either. The "holy shit two cakes!" solution! #kb»o
Yokoyama Akitoshi episode ruled though. Everyone's favorite enshutsu: Yokoyama Akitoshi. I'd make a Photo Kano joke at his expense here, but the truth is I never tried that vampire cosmonaut anime he did a few years back. But then, neither did anyone else. #kb»o
Nate A.M.@kbnet.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's remarkable that *nobody* seems to have anything to say about the Tanaka Hironori SB/ED/AD episode of Ghost in the Shell. >but do you have anything to say about it? …no, not really. #kb»o
I've never been on a date (that I knew was intended to be a date), but "tell my date I have a theory of aesthetics and awkwardly back out of trying to explain them on the spot" is something I would probably do. I consider this a bad thing. Explain Kant to this lady, blond interloper! Do it! #kb»o
Don't you dare judge Perlweiss' pollaxe stance.🔨
Ironlily@ironlilyart.com · 7d agoGothic armor and pollaxe ladies. It seems I never draw Perlweiss wielding a pollaxe before...🤔
skipping is like the best way to move around in low g but holy shit is it not kinda funny and whimsical looking, look at the moon war man go
It's remarkable that *nobody* seems to have anything to say about the Tanaka Hironori SB/ED/AD episode of Ghost in the Shell. >but do you have anything to say about it? …no, not really. #kb»o
i illustrated a pizza slice today and then i remembered the kyubey pizza i painstakingly made in 2011
