“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...
2000 Lightyears into Sonny Boy – Interview with Shingo Natsume
Shingo Natsume is one of the greatest anime directors of today's generation. Having moved from the video game to the animation industry in the early 2000s, he became associated with Studio Madhouse following his first collaboration with Masaaki Yuasa on The Tatami...
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...
Healing the anime industry – The production of Healer Girl, Halloween Pajama and the role of JAniCA – Interview with Yasuhiro Irie
With the release of the original anime series Healer Girl, we reached out to the director of the series, Mr. Yasuhiro Irie, to talk about his new show. It was also an excellent opportunity to talk about the advancement of his independently made Halloween Pajama anime...
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...
The legacy of Monsieur Onion on Battle Heroine Drawings – Interview with Character Designer Hisashi Kagawa
Although very busy with his work as an animation director on the anime Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Mr. Kagawa was kind enough to give us some of his time and talk about his career. Mr. Hisashi Kagawa is part of a group of animators who entered the industry in...
Alternatively Progressing into FLCL – Notes on the FLCL Sequels
Recently I released a video discussing FLCL, and tried to apply a more Japanese reading to it that went beyond the typical Western Coming-of-age take. I was originally going to include some points on the sequels in that video, but found it was getting to be...
Voyage through Outer Space #01 – Leiji Matsumoto’s Roman
This article is the first in a series whose goal is to observe how the representation of Outer Space in anime has evolved throughout time.Through the analysis of the genesis of fundamental tropes, we aim to achieve a better understanding and contextualization of this...