by Ludovic Joyet | Dec 15, 2023 | Interview
In the mid-2000s, a group of three young animators were making waves in the anime industry: Ryo-Timo, Ken’ichi Kutsuna, and Shingo Yamashita. Nicknamed the “web-generation”, they had started as amateur animators on the Web before entering the animation industry, where...
by Matteo Watzky | Nov 24, 2023 | Interview
If any animator could be said to have defined the look of Studio Ghibli films in the last 20 years, it would, without a doubt, be Akihiko Yamashita. First only a key animator on Spirited Away in 2001, he was immediately promoted to animation direction on Howl’s Moving...
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by Arnaud Bastié | Nov 17, 2023 | Interview
In July of this year, two of the most important members of the history of the One Piece anime series were invited to Japan Expo. Eisaku Inoue, an animation director who worked on some of the most memorable episodes ever since the second episode of the series, and...
by Matteo Watzky | Nov 10, 2023 | Interview
For some years now, awareness of problems within the Japanese animation industry has been growing, both within Japan and overseas. Things have accelerated since the pandemic, with these topics being addressed increasingly frequently. There are two causes for this: the...
by Ludovic Joyet | Nov 5, 2023 | Interview
During the 2023 edition of the Annecy International Animation Festival, a peculiar person was browsing the MIFA, the business area of the fest. This young girl, who could have easily been mistaken for a cat, was speaking perfect Japanese with every artist, producer,...
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by Ludovic Joyet | Oct 30, 2023 | Interview
While at the Niigata International Film Festival earlier this year, we had the chance to cross paths with the famous anime director Shin’ichirô Watanabe. This is not the first time we met with him, as one of the very first interviews posted on fullfrontal.moe...
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