Akira stories – Katsuhiro Otomo and Hiroyuki Kitakubo talk at Niigata International Animation Film Festival 2023
Among the many events taking place during the first Niigata International Animation Film Festival was a Katsuhiro Otomo retrospective, held to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Akira and to accompany the release of Otomo’s Complete Works. All of Otomo’s animated works...
From unions to Doraemon – Interview with Éclat Animal’s Toshiyuki Honda
Toshiyuki Honda’s name may not be familiar to many anime fans, but he is the very definition of a veteran, one of those people who have supported the anime industry for decades. He started his career in 1969 in the genre-defining sports anime Star of the Giants and...
fullfrontal.moe 2023 wrap up and plans for 2024
As we enter this new year, I have grown accustomed to taking a look back at the past year to give you an idea of fullfrontal.moe's situation, what we were able to achieve together with your support and fidelity, and share our prospects for 2024. But before getting...
fullfrontal.moe Anime of the Year Awards 2023
Last year, we held the first edition of the fullfrontal.moe Anime of the Year Awards. Well... Kind of. We decided last minute to have each member write something about their favorite anime and joke about it being "an award". Still, the experience was fun, and we...
Takeshi Honda’s The Boy and the Heron – Long Interview
Nicknamed “Master” since his early days in animation, Takeshi Honda is one of anime’s greatest artists. After a brief period at the studio Atelier Giga, he spent most of the 1980s and 1990s at studio Gainax, where he worked on its most iconic productions: Gunbuster,...
Who is Takeshi Honda, from Evangelion to The Boy and the Heron – Panel at Art to Play 2023
Takeshi Honda is a highly respected animator amongst anime fans, known for his exceptional work on several popular anime series, including Hideaki Anno's Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water and Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, and Millenium...
The origins and legacy of the webgen, anime’s rock’n’roll – Long interview with Ryo-Timo
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...
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Let’s talk to anime directors panel with Tomohisa Taguchi and Keiichi Hara [Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023]
During the Annecy International Animation Film Festival earlier this year, a panel was held with some of the Japanese directors who had their movies in competition. There was Director Keiichi Hara, known for his directing work on the Crayon Shin-Chan franchise and...
Definitive Anime Review – Issue #3 – Match of the Day
Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting edition of Definitive Anime Review. I hope you didn't miss me too much. I was busy working with the British Library, exposing an international book laundering crime syndicate that employed resurrected historical figures...