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Monster Strike MV: Narrating a story through visuals.

October 25, 2020October 26, 2020 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

Today I attempt to dissect the Monster Strike MV directed by Daiki Harashina and animated by the Fukushi team at studio Madhouse.

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The key staff of Fire Force season 1

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

Director side Yuki Yase I won’t talk too much about Yase for two reasons: he’s somehow the director we covered the most on the website but also he’s not returning for the second season. The reason why he left is still unknown but here’s hoping he’s handling another project of the same caliber. However, while […]

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Winter Production Recap #2: ID: Invaded and Atsushi Ikariya

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

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

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

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!

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The Creators of FGO Babylonia #04: Toshimasa Ishii

March 28, 2020March 29, 2020 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

As explained in an earlier post, it’s not that uncommon to find production-related people climbing to a higher position such as episode director or even series director. Even among those cases Toshimasa Ishii stands out as a particularly brilliant individual. Starting his career as a production assistant at A-1 Pictures around the beginning of the […]

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Pushing through the limits: Yoshihiro Kanno and SAO War of Underworld

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

SAO: WoU was a production full of surprises and great artists but one of them stood out for the quality and quantity of his works throughout the arc: Yoshihiro Kanno!

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Sakuga Week in Review #6 (F/Go Takeover Edition): Nov. 18, 2019 – Nov. 24, 2019

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

We did something a little different for the week of Nov18– Nov24, seeing as how animation-wise, F/Go Babaylonia stole the show- we each took our own personal favorite sequences to dive deep on in this edition of sakuga week-in-review

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Sakuga Week in Review #4: Nov. 4, 2019 – Nov. 10, 2019

November 14, 2019November 18, 2019 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

Hataage! Kemono Michi got its bi-weekly sakuga scene, Yoshihara showed up again to save a key moment in Black Clover, Babylon keeps on being the surprise of the season and we got a short acting cut in One Piece!

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The creators of Fate/Grand Order Babylonia II: Miyuki Kuroki

October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

Welcome to another installment of what is going to be a long series. This time, I’ll be covering the extremely talented assistant director of Fate/Grand Order Babylonia: Miyuki Kuroki.

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The creators of Fate/Grand Order Babylonia I: Toshifumi Akai

October 10, 2019 ~ Blou ~ Leave a comment

The newest offering of the Fate franchise has begun and this time we’re surely in for something special. When it comes to anime, Fate can be pretty hit or miss but there’s no doubt it’s mostly doing quite well between the main title being in the care of ufotable, and some of the spin-offs offering […]

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