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We are all Dollars, we are all animals — Durarara!!, Odd Taxi, and “the big...
The other day, one of my coworkers posited that one’s favorite moment or piece of media is almost always going to be one of your first big experience — something that ties you emotionally to that...
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Lady Prospera and “the tempest” of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury
My history with the Gundam anime franchise is surprisingly lengthy for someone who doesn’t consider themselves a Gundam fan. I was first recommended the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy in a...
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Miorine’s Sunlit Garden: Flower Language and Shades of Utena in The Witch...
Take my revolution. There are a few specific things you can say to me that will make me check out an anime faster than “This draws from Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Revolutionary Girl Utena.” Utena is a series...
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“Longing sometimes gets the better of instinct”— revisiting the desires of...
“Unlike us, you’re a hollow from the old ritual site, aren’t you? You have a real life. You must have been protected by a very powerful desire.” -Majikaja to Nanachi, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of...
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Reg’s mystery and more on animating the monstrous in Made in Abyss
Kou Yoshinari’s monster designs in Made in Abyss were visibly meant to be different than the humans of Orth and the Abyss from the first moment that a crimson splitjaw chased down Riko in the series’...
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Visual bookending from Made in Abyss to The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
Made in Abyss’ second season begins with a sort of chronological bookending, placing Riko’s imminent arrival at The Capital of the Unreturned side-by-side with the journey of Vueko arriving at the...
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Dispatches from the Abyss
When Riko sends a mail balloon to the surface in Made in Abyss‘ first season, the framing is that of a cave raider’s ascent. The balloon travels through every layer we have seen Riko delve from...
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Tanaka’s Camellia Flowers — Odd Taxi Episode 4
“I feel like I’ve always been searching for something. At the same time, my life has always been lacking something. And desperately acquiring that something yields only a moment of pleasure.” -Tanaka,...
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Return to the Abyss — Made in Abyss: the Golden City of the Scorching Sun,...
“About 1,900 years ago, a huge pit was discovered on a remote island in the southern sea of Beoluska. With a diameter of around 1,000 meters and a depth that is still unknown to this day, the...
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Visual bookending, mirroring, and storyboarding in Arcane
Am I interrupting? Spoilers for all of Arcane and some League of Legends game lore/backstory below. Tw: suicidal ideation Sometimes, when people speak of anime or animated works (especially the...
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The “Anicamera” in Arcane
Arcane immediately had my attention due to the way in which it used its own “camera” to frame its first act, in addition to other visual languages used in tandem with the series’ emotional narratives....
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Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Arcane
Two specific points struck me as I was watching the first three episodes of Arcane. The first was the series’ use of a “camera.” Animation, by nature, unchains the camera view or perspective from...
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Flower language in Heike Monogatari
“The color of the sāla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline.” -The Tale of the Heike During her time at Kyoto Animation it was a truth universally acknowledged that any Naoko...
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Hundreds of ways to say hell is other people and also love is other people:...
There are myriad reasons why I feel unqualified to talk about anything related to the Evangelion franchise, but the primary one is that it’s not my thing. It’s a lot of other people’s thing, but not...
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Costuming in Sailor Moon (Part 1: Le Smoking and Tuxedo Mask)
Was this post inspired solely by the fact that Tuxedo Mask has an attack in the manga called “la smoking bomber” and reading way too far into that? You decide. A brief history of Naoko Takeuchi and...
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Welcome back to Love Live!, Takahiko Kyougoku (visual direction in Love Live!...
The opening sequence to the original Love Live! School Idol Project still charms me to this day. It was made back when Love Live! was a budding multimedia adventure and not the successful franchise it...
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What we leave behind: On returning to Maid Dragon
Yasuhiro Takemoto left behind a legacy. There isn’t an artist in the world who doesn’t think about how people will view their art. If they say that they’ve never thought about this, then they’re...
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The flowers of Wonder Egg Priority’s opening (and series reflections, I suppose)
Following a three-month wait for a finale that was half-recap and half-nonsense, Wonder Egg Priority will go down in anime history as yet another promising passion project that was stymied by poor...
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Colors and Cinematography in SSSS.Dynazenon
The opening shot of SSSS.Dynazenon is purposefully reminiscent of its predecessor, SSSS.Gridman. Anyone who has watched Gridman immediately will recognize the sequence of shots. This time, these...
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Flower language in Wonder Egg Priority Episode 11
Wonder Egg Priority has always paid specific attention to lighting when Rika Kawai is onscreen. In the midst of her many quips about how she would look beautiful in a flower field but others wouldn’t,...
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