Our second part focuses on a pair of promotions for Hiroyuki Yamashita, examining his style and exploring the way in which he would shape the Naruto series from the Animation & Episode Director positions!
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Hiroyuki Yamashita is an artist whose contributions to the Naruto franchise are second only to Masashi Kishimoto himself. Join me in this five part series commemorating his career to date!
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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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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 […]
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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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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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Most of the time I do this kind of analysis on twitter because aside from reaching a larger audience much faster, I also feel less of a need to adhere to things like grammar and paragraph structure. I feel like mixing it up this time though and going a bit beyond what character limit restrictions […]
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Even before their discovery and subsequent artistic recognition within the sakuga community with Star Twinkle Precure, @Agresiel and I got really excited by an aggressive and quite nostalgic sequence that provided a heavy emotional atmosphere to the prelude to the final part of Hugtto! Precure. At the time we were still not sure if the […]
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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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I just happened to be taking a closer look at the career of Yuki Yase on a whim and this scene from Mekakucity Actors managed to catch my eye. It’s the last episode of the series so naturally he handles the board and direction. Animated by Tomohiro Shinoda, it should come as no surprise that […]
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