ID Invaded is a fascinating project in many ways, starting with the way it came to exist! Around 2012-2013, Ei Aoki started planning an original show featuring a dark hero with producer Yasuo Suda. At that time Aoki’s studio, Troyca, wasn’t created and neither was NAZ which was founded shortly after by Suda. They started […]
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Winter Production Recap #1: Haikyuu!! To The Top and Sachiko Fukuda
Haikyuu!! returned with a new season and with many aces of the franchise gone, there was some legitimate doubt about the quality of this new season. However thanks to the solid team at Production IG and some incredible animators, the show managed to exceed expectations again!
Read more →Yutaka Nakamura X Masahiro Ando: Superaction animation Talk
This is the first of a series of articles dedicated to Yutaka Nakamura, without a shadow of a doubt the best known contemporary Japanese action animator, but at the same time an often mystified and trivialized figure. The quotations present here are a translation made by myself of the report from the event Shin Bungeiza X Animestyle Selection vol. 123: Yutaka Nakamura’s superaction animation done by YNKL, who we thank as usual for his assiduous presence in this kind of events.
Read more →Winter 2020: Anime Season in Hindsight and Production Notes
On this blog I commonly find myself writing from a position of anticipating something which has either yet to happen, or conversely reacting to recent events around the industry. So with that in mind, I think there is some merit in looking back on the entire season which has just passed us by and share […]
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