by Matteo Watzky | Jan 26, 2024 | Blog
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...
by Dimitri Seraki | Mar 7, 2023 | Interview
At the last Annecy Animation Festival, we met with a familiar face: Mr. Kôji Takeuchi, whom you’ll see every year at the MIFA to promote his numerous activities. The first time we met him was at the 2017 edition of the festival. He was staying at the hotel in front of...
by Matteo Watzky | Nov 12, 2022 | Interview
Shin’ya Ohira needs no introduction: with his immediately recognizable style, which emphasizes irregular linework and deformation, he is one of the most unique animators in the world. But Ohira’s style and career do not just amount to the deformations he is famous for...
by Dimitri Seraki | Feb 6, 2022 | Translation
A few days ago, Savin Yeatman-Eiffel, founder and CEO of Sav! The World Productions announced a crowdfunding campaign, which goal is the distribution of a Blu-Ray of Oban Star-Racers [1], an anime series he directed and co-produced with Japan. The news reminded me of...
by Antoine Redier | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog
A bottle to the sea, drifting along our era’s shores, finding its way before our eyes, voiceless against a world deafened by its own cry. Ready Player One, Ghost in the Shell 2017, Altered Carbon, Battle Angel Alita, Blade Runner 2049. Between nostalgic,...
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