Index of Movie Posts -- from Sept. 2008 to present!
IT'S A SOMY -- the blog for those who love dumb fake products in their anime
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Wyoming.
Man, it feels like forever since I've been caught up in all things current anime. We've got a good thing going now, though: Tiger and Bunny is heating up, Steins;Gate had a fantastic recent episode, Kaiji is awesome, and...Let's Sakuga!
A friend of mine attended a sakuga panel at ACen, and once the panel got hosted on YouTube, he linked it on Twitter. I finally got around to watching it yesterday, and as someone who is embarrassingly ignorant about this sort of thing, I found it a compelling watch. I think every fan of animation -- not just anime, but animation in general -- should watch and learn from this. It's quite interesting. The videos are also split into nine easily digested parts if you don't have time to watch them all in one go.
Just to define: Sakuga is basically a single animator leaving a defining mark on a scene or show in general (as is the case with someone like Hiroyuki Imaishi, whose style is recognizable across Diebuster, Dead Leaves, Gurren Lagann and Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt). The sheer variety of touches and styles is remarkable, and definitely gives me a better appreciation of the medium, especially as someone who tends to pay a bit more attention to the writing and characterization side of things.
TETSUOOOOOOOOO
I have been routinely waking up at 7 a.m. lately. This is horrible. The Town (2010): Pretty solid crime flick. I don't think there's much here that's different fro...Patlabor TV + OVAs -- Giant Robots Need Giant Guns
Yeah, I'm terrible at following through on consistency ... In future Tokyo, giant robots called Labors are used for construction, and the Tokyo Me...!!!
For any Revolutionary Girl Utena fans out there, Nozomi just announced that the first boxset will be released in June. I just pre-ordered it!
I guess you can also ask questions to the director, Kunihiko Ikuhara, too, but the guy is infamous for dancing around questions like crazy and giving nonsense answers, haha.
Also, does just showing the OP really count as a trailer? Haha.
