Bakuten!! #03 introduced a host of new characters, so who better to direct their arrival than a new face to the production- Doga Kobo’s Yoshiyuki Fujiwara wasted no time getting acclimated to the series’ approach and it shows in the result!
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What Ever Happened? (…To Studio Shaft.)
As a preface: this is by no means a rebuttal against the “Shaft is Dead” rhetoric getting thrown around recently. Is it lacking in nuance and not entirely accurate? Sure, but when one of their most important directors is making jokes like “how has this company not gone under yet,” it’d be crazy to spend […]
Read more →Bakuten!! #02 – Production Notes
The second episode of Bakuten!! was every bit as impressive as the first. To that end, lets take a look at the staff involved, the ideas and approaches they explored, and whether this impressive trend can possibly continue.
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