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...
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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...
“Kaleidoscopic Animation – An encounter with Yukio Takatsu” Panel at Paris Japan Expo 2022
After missing for two years, Paris Japan Expo was finally held again at the Villepinte Parce des Expositions. For this edition, called the phoenix edition, to express the event's resurrection, one of the guests of honor was the director, animation director, and...
Tonko House’s Oni: Thunder God’s Tale – A technical tour de force
On June 17th, 2022, American animation studio Tonko House held a Work-in-Progress panel dedicated to their subsequent work, the Netflix series Oni: Thunder God's Tale. While it is on its own particularly promising, it is of particular interest for anime fans thanks to...
A Glimpse of Garden of Remembrance with Naoko Yamada
On Wednesday, June 15th, 2022, Naoko Yamada was at the Annecy festival to hold a work-in-progress session about her subsequent work in studio Science Saru: Garden of Remembrance. She was accompanied by studio staff, most notably the CEO Eunyoung Choi, who drove the...
What’s the deal with slice-of-life anime?
2022’s Winter anime season came and went pretty fast but it was an enjoyable one nonetheless. Out of the many shows that aired during the weekends over the last twelve weeks, it was the slice-of-life anime that stood out from the rest for me. This season led to the...
What’s hidden in Studio La Cachette?
French animation studio La Cachette, created in 2013, has in recent years become a presence that animation fans worldwide can't ignore. After their first viral short, Kairos, they have become famous for their work on the 2019 series Primal, for which they have done...