Welcome to a new column on this blog where we take advantage of the piecewise format to finally produce blogging that embodies the true spirit of the unknown artist. Ideally, future iterations will see increasing variety in participants, as people are matched to their specialties and interests. The nature of openings is such that there will always be something relevant to talk about. This season just happened to be loaded, and thus, a tradition has been born!
Read more →Trying to Bridge the Gap between US and JPN Productions: An Interview with Will Feng
Join us as we interview Will Feng! An animation producer affiliated with Studio Trigger; he produced their video game openings (Shantae, Indivisible, Omega Strikers) along with scouting out overseas artists James Gilleard and Jasmin Lai for BNA. Get to know his early animation experiences working at Titmouse, what motivated him to work in anime in […]
Read more →BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War Cour 2 (#14-26) Production Impressions
BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War Cour 2 (#14-26) Production Impressions
Read more →Yuuji Yanase and Takaharu Ozaki at Otakon 2023
Otakon 2023 was host to many guests, and I did my best to cover all the anime production related ones. Here’s all the stuff I heard and saw that I can’t really turn into a full article, but is too interesting not to post about, featuring:
>Veteran animator Yuuji Yanase
>Director Takaharu Ozaki
Orange Roundtable at Otakon 2023
Producer Yoshihiro Watanabe of Studio Orange hosted a roundtable at Otakon 2023 with CG Director Shingo Kiyomiya and CG Producer Kiyotaka Waki. Here are our records of the event.
Read more →Trigger Fukuoka’s New Generation: Shunpei Gunyasu, Takuya Saitou, and President Masahiko Otsuka at Otakon 2023
For Otakon 2023, Studio Trigger president Masahiko Otsuka decided bring along two skilled but essentially unknown young animators from the Trigger Fukuoka satellite: Shunpei Gunyasu and Tatsuya Saitou. Otsuka has “big plans” for the digital branch, now hard at work on Dungeon Meshi. What are these new animators like, and how’s it going down down in Kyuushuu?
Read more →Interview with Quintessential Quintuplets TV Special Staff at Otakon 2023
Veteran Shaft animator Kazuya Shiotsuki, freelance screenwriter Keiichirou Ouchi, and TBS producer Junichirou Tanaka came to Washington DC for Otakon last week – July 2023. Otakon was kind enough to arrange for me to sit down and talk with them alongside an interpreter to compensate for my questionable listening comprehension, and they were in turn kind enough to accept.
Read more →Vinland Saga Retrospective: Weathering the Storm Known as TV Anime
Makoto Yukimura’s manga are no strangers to inspired adaptations—Vinland Saga included. This is the story of its team, the challenges they’ve faced, and the recipe they concocted to weather the storm known as TV anime.
Read more →Animator Spotlight: Hiroyuki Yamashita (Part 4 of 5) – NARUTO SHIPPUUDEN #476-477 The Valley of the End
Naruto vs. Sasuke is much more than just a cool fight with exceptional animation. It calls back to simpler times: a reminder at the end of the series why we fell in love with it at the start. This is Hiroyuki Yamashita’s vision, and how he brought it to life.
Read more →Tengoku Daimakyou (Heavenly Delusion): Episodes #01, #02 & OP
The second episode of Tengoku Daimakyou (Heavenly Delusion) maintained the up-tempo pace of the first while ushering in a pair of director debuts of its own, one of which can be found in its absolutely stunning opening sequence.
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