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
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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