We're in an era of anime caring about international optics, but also one where high-profile studios are filled with people who make Sam Altman look like an AI skeptic, where all sci-fi veterans have developed severe ChatGPT psychosis. Good luck to everyone who has to navigate that. Or not, they suck

Sayonara Lara #05 links her struggles to reflections, photography, and subjective perception, in a way the script can't fully articulate but that rookie director Hirota elevates. Lara's focus on fairy tale-ish True Love blinds her to angles (like Mari maybe being her partner) revealed by reflections

Very cute, clearly well meaning episode of Sparks of Tomorrow that's all about different forms of love. Like a Tamako episode that got shot with the beam that makes you insane (praise)

Every Ave Mujica entry increases the chances that someone finally looks at Nyamuchi and asks why is a mid-20s woman in first year of high school, hanging out with the dysfunctional emo children

TaiAri is fundamentally funny because it chooses fighting games as the theme to build kinda exaggerated, simple but compelling character arcs... ...then there's the inexplicable gaming cryptid co-protag, who duels to the death with her supernaturally strong mom over the right to play Street Fighter

Pressed the Shigeyasu Yamauchi-shaped button just one week later. Thank you Kimura, do Hatakeyama next

kViN@yuyucow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nobukage Kimura's direction for Victoria of Many Faces is sleek & stylish, in a way that synergizes with its protag's emotional baggage as she seeks ordinary happiness. DEEN keeps betting on idiosyncratic directors to elevate ultra-limited productions - not ideal, but they sure appoint cool people!

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Gaku Yano had directed & boarded the best episode of Detective Precure so far. The only person capable of beating it? Gaku Yano, back to the same leading roles for the climax of Eclair's reveal. Same elegant, evocative sensibilities but also the bombast you like to see in a Precure midseason banger

kViN@yuyucow.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excellent episode! Off the bat, Gaku Yano's direction showcases an appealing predilection for flat shading. And more importantly, it gestures towards the incoming rift between the two leads: separated into different frames, emphasizing their distance, making them lean in opposite directions

Sparks of Tomorrow #04 is an exciting (TV) storyboarding & direction debut for Ayumu Yoshida. No doubt Ota gave her pointers as the project leader, but I love her way of envisioning a radical breakthrough in communication, while still making sure to keep everything grounded in human emotion

Sayonara Lara #04 follows the show's trend of shattering the protagonist's belief in embellished Traditional Romance (with the roles that implies) as the sole form of true love, but I like that it doesn't negate the validity of those emotions. It's unrequited this time, but beautiful all the same

Töregene is my favorite Jaadugar character, so I was happy to see that episode #05 raised the bar when it came to depicting her expressions. Sharpness, anger, numbness and further fury at being used to her situation, hope mixed with pain when she crosses paths with a kindred soul like Sitara

Movie just had the 8th biggest opening day in Japan's history. Do not fucking play with Chiikawa

Scarseven - Cute Cartoon Hamster Animation

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kViN@yuyucow.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Reactions to the Chiikawa movie announcement are one of the funniest examples of how myopic the view of vocal anime fans overseas is. Trying to frame it in relation to Kagurabachi and painting it as a lesser project, when Chiikawa is a social phenomenon on a different level altogether? Lol

Check the <Director's Whim Station✰3> on our official site! 💡 denkimokuroku.jp/en/special/d... Catch the streaming on Netflix every Sunday at 11PM(JST)! 📺 Also look forward to the director's whims! ⚡ #sparks_of_tomorrow #二十世紀電氣目録

Check the <Director's Whim Station✰> on our official site! 💡 denkimokuroku.jp/en/special/d... Catch the streaming on Netflix every Sunday at 11PM(JST)! 📺 Also look forward to the director's whims! ⚡ #sparks_of_tomorrow #二十世紀電氣目録

Nobukage Kimura's direction for Victoria of Many Faces is sleek & stylish, in a way that synergizes with its protag's emotional baggage as she seeks ordinary happiness. DEEN keeps betting on idiosyncratic directors to elevate ultra-limited productions - not ideal, but they sure appoint cool people!

Sparks of Tomorrow poses electricity as a dazzling revolution to blast away the grit & stagnancy embodied by a steampunk Kyoto. Minoru Ota's wild imagery and choices of material do a great job of conveying the thrill, while the more traditional acting captures how this resonates with the characters

Even among fairy tale princesses, The Little Mermaid is a romantic among romantics, yearning for an idealized love in a different world. Sayonara Lara takes that idea and runs with it: of course she'd crush catastrophically bad for a handsome girl the second that she casually says she likes her

Peak yuri? Back in my day we called that

名探偵プリキュア！25話作監でした！ありがとうございました～

Jaadugar's interest in the cultures it explores and the anime's willingness to flesh out the manga, summed up in a beautiful scene depicting Genghis Khan's demise. The anime incorporates his mythical wolf ancestry & a falling star, symbol of the death of a Leader and also a core motif in the series

Of course he singled it out when sharing his corrections. It's all pretty character drawings and then this, lol. Makino knows what he likes!

kViN@yuyucow.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kazutoshi Makino keeps climbing in the industry, especially now that he's acting as the animation designer & chief supervisor for Grown Up Show. That said, his claim to fame for me will always be endlessly drawing NEW GAME characters in a multitude of outfits, so this shot in the ED made me smile

Right level of demented storyboarding for the protagonist's realization about the premise in The Inept Villainess' first episode. Mitsue Yamazaki still has *some* juice left in the tank

Also organized a Cosmic Princess Kaguya group (re)watch today, without noticing I was scheduling it for the moon gremlin's birthday. No better gift than this movie

Chou Kaguya-hime Kaguya Hime

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Lovely episode of Sayonara Lara too, especially with the debut of the OP. Highly anticipated because of its historical gathering of animation muscle, but rather than a flashy betrayal of its vibe, we get the perfect balance of WMT-ish charm and trendy techniques like crossfading & photo progressions

Sparks of Tomorrow is the result of a unique director reframing a romcom pitch to incorporate the unusual stylistic & thematic links that only a brilliant weirdo would make. That *could* risk being too self-serious, but the show's simple romanticism is so wrapped up in his madness that it's a blast

They no longer let you educate children like this, because of Woke

Jaadugar #03 is a nice breather all about cultural exchange. Sitara is still learning basic Mongol customs, but she has already crossed paths with people who value her unique point of view. Makes sense that the highlight is her popular fable, turned into papercuts by guest artist Ryoko Tanaka