Anime Numbers – 3 – Working conditions through time
Understanding of the Japanese animation industry has developed a lot in English-speaking circles. However, while in-depth records or detailed anecdotes about specific productions have become easier to find, a general overview of the industry as a whole is still...
Definitive Anime Review – Issue #2 – An Exclusive Interview for the Soul of the Anime Industry.
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Definitive Anime Review. Sorry for disappearing for a few months, I was busy at work on a story exposing Sir Issac Newton as the leader of an evil organisation. You know how these stories are right? Well a few days ago,...
Beyond the wall of Titans – Hajime Isayama Panel [50th Angoulême International Comics Festival]
Attack on Titan has been running for over ten years in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine and ended recently, but its success story still seems unreal. Hajime Isayama was a young mangaka with little to no experience who gave birth to one of the most successful stories ever...
Anime Numbers – 2 – The situation of anime studios
Understanding of the Japanese animation industry has developed a lot in English-speaking circles. However, while in-depth records or detailed anecdotes about specific productions have become easier to find, a general overview of the industry as a whole is still...
Supporting independent anime projects – a JETRO initiative
This week, five independent anime studios have launched crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. While crowdfunding campaigns have already taken place to help finance anime productions, this campaign, in particular, is a bit special. Indeed, it is part of an initiative...
Anime Numbers – 1: How many anime are there?
Understanding of the Japanese animation industry has developed a lot in English-speaking circles. However, while in-depth records or detailed anecdotes about specific productions have become easier to find, a general overview of the industry as a whole is still...
Fullfrontal.moe 2022 wrap up & Fullfrontal.moe 2022 Anime Awards [tentative title]
Yet another year comes to a close. As such, what better moment to reflect on everything that happened throughout it and what we plan on doing next year? Especially since, about the same time last year, we published a blog post to set goals for ourselves for 2022, I...
Definitive Anime Review – Issue #1 – I’m alive?
Hello everyone, welcome to Definitive Anime Review! Wait a minute...where am I? It seems that I'm writing somewhere else now! Definitive Anime Review is now on Full Frontal dot moe, a crossover that nobody could have predicted but has now become reality. I imagine a...
Animation Legend Rintarô – Les Utopiales 2022
Few anime fans probably know about the name Shigeyuki Hayashi. But under his pen name Rintarô, he belongs to the hall of fame of the most important and influential directors in anime history. He left a considerable legacy in anime history, be it for his huge...
Makoto Shinkai’s Japan: Suzume no Tojimari Review
Saying that Makoto Shinkai is one of the most prominent Japanese directors of the last decade would be stating the obvious. Since the worldwide success of Your Name in 2016, everybody inside and outside of anime fandom, regardless of their opinions on the director,...
Understanding Urusei Yatsura
This article wouldn’t have been possible without the direct or indirect help of all the people sharing anime-related resources, scans, photos, translations and transcripts on the Internet. All my thanks go to Harley and Dylan Acres from Rumic World, ehoba, Rick,...
INU-OH Is A Film About Artists, For Artists
Masaaki Yuasa’s work has been formative to my development as an anime fan. So many of the projects he has put his stamp on have revealed to me what animation is truly capable of and made me realise how artistically diverse the landscape really was. INU-OH took me...