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Wrote about the lengthy, bold production of CITY: The Animation. What Keiichi Arawi's active role in the process meant materially but also ideologically, the outstanding commitment to a style, and why this show kicks ass on levels rarely ever seen before blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/20/c...

Wrote about the lengthy, bold production of CITY: The Animation. What Keiichi Arawi's active role in the process meant materially but also ideologically, the outstanding commitment to a style, and why this show kicks ass on levels rarely ever seen before blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/20/c...

Keiichi Arawi and Kyoto Animation's Imaginative Quest To Defy The Norms - CITY: The Animation Production Notes #02-11 blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/20/c... #anime #animation #sakuga #keiichiarawi #kyotoanimation #アニメCITY #animeCITY

Did you love Odd Taxi? Did you make the mistake of not watching it, while lamenting that anime has fewer & fewer thoughtfully written, resonant works? Either way, you can watch the beginning of its spiritual successor Housenka & then be sad you gotta wait for more www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQXe66vi0IU

Adding to "these people really don't understand anything they pretend to be passionate about": Exhibit one million of people assuming that a writer in anime has orders of magnitude more decision power than they do. Forget the author's vetoing power, the director could stop anything before that check

We may be witnessing the dumbest controversy with Bocchi the Rock's series composer Erika Yoshida being attacked by the combined, stupid coalition of anti (made up) censorship warriors and adaptation purists who couldn't even spell the word Art if their life depended on it. Deeply embarrassing shit

#owned #viral #mambonumber5

Anyway I missed all those news when they dropped because I got tempted into an Infinity Castle IMAX screening. Some of Kimetsu's recurring issues felt more cumberesome than usual, but they made up for that through by far the most spectacular & technically cohesive animation the series has ever had

Shout out to the new Chiramune PV as well. Very curious about Mutobe's debut as series director, because for as adaptible & widely knowledgeable about animation as he is (mark of a nerd), he has to wrestle with limited resources. Please save a diiiiiiiiire fall season www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC7F...

Yomi no Tsugai crumbs look unsurprisingly good. Arai got some baffling heat over Bungo's animation designs but he's a fantastic artist, and I feel like people will take for granted how he's giving definition to Arakawa's work without being ostentariously volumetric www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5At...

Fate Strange Fake ready to drop with a fantastic PV, but also obfuscating how it's wowing you with footage from the already screened ep #02 (and that no one knows when further "seasons" will be broadcast). Rollercoaster still on! Praying for the best cause Narita owns www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1G8...

　　　　　 TVアニメ 上伊那ぼたん、酔へる姿は百合の花 　　 キャラクターお披露目PV 　　　　　　　　　　　　　. 𓈒 𓏸 ◌ ゜ youtu.be/Sl0SekZccPI #上伊那ぼたん

Panty & Stocking S2 #10-B is maybe the coolest thing the series has done. Evoking oldschool vibes can be fun, but it's a played-out concept. "Crappy VHS recording of a Conan-ish fantasy series dubbed into a language you don't know" is much more specific, it feels like a real artifact you came across

Who doesn't love a viral post wondering who started the "rumor" that cel animation is no longer feasible because the tech is no longer available, while quoting an independent artist who famously has been crafting his own devices to experiment with cel & film because the tech is no longer available

About this Witch Hat Atelier vid: Anime projects (like anything with that big a scale & involving so many parties) can spend several years in talks before meaningful work is done, let alone before reaching a point where the production is regularly ongoing. The boundaries between those stages is hazy

It has secured the problematic goty award without even existing, that's how powerful it is

Anyone inclined to be upset over the finally public Witch Hat Atelier delay should instead be happy that they didn't commit to one specific season that they'd feel compelled to stick to, even when it inevitably continues to need more time in the oven

Baby Tatsuki Fujimoto oneshots brought to life as God itself intended: a bunch of teams featuring weirdos with an interesting vision, and also uneven in quality like the comics themselves www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDsN...

Keiichi Arawi is an all-timer cartoonist, but episodes like #09 show CITY's team (including himself!) attempting to best him. The magnetizing effect of consecutive spreads becomes one (almost) single cut that draws you in just as much, even more packed with chaotic energy than it was before. Insane

If I'm gonna be firing shots, that's because this discourse is driven by liberal people who are happy to only ever perceive works for a very specific demographic and would rather take shots at slop than explore different creative spaces & communities. At least shows like this are based trojan horses

Discourse about anime's self-indulgent focus on otaku is stuck on the boring framing of it as ontologically evil, as opposed to lamenting how most shows are very reductive about the culture. While goofing around, Bisque proves it has the finger on the pulse of broader nerddom in a sadly unusual way

Who's up for 300+ pages of interviews, visual & literary criticism, commemorative art, and whatever it takes to discuss the cultural and sociological impact of funny comics man Arawi

Nevermind, more pressing issues

Wake up babe, the most universe-endangering crossover episode just dropped

Wasn't aware of Yuuki Gotou until Bisque S2 #08, but it caught my eye so much that I immediately went to check their only previous episode (100gf #03). Confirmed that they're indeed a fun, efficient director. Good catch by Umehara & co Also this season really is making everything more comedic, lol

Doesn't solve the widespread anti-art tendencies that misaccusations due to AI panic merely reveal, and it won't change a studio that's already so deeply invested in techbro grifts, but I love that qzilla has been forced to issue a statement explaining that no AI was used in the production of Sekiro

Amazing lineup of lecturers for an anime direction bootcamp seminar. Yoshiura to talk about filmmaking, hanabushi for music videos, Yoko Kuno for rotoscoping, and Orange's Kensuke Yamamoto for 3DCG

Otonari-led Panty & Stocking minisode this week, we're feasting

New Patreon notes: Silent Witch propaganda, Mamoru Hosoda + Dandadan/Saru sad thoughts, trying to explain the Witch Hat Atelier and Akane-banashi kerfuffle, L’etoile de Paris en Fleur is super interesting & some changes in animation discourse, plus various news! www.patreon.com/posts/secret...

Secret Sabunga Notes #02 www.patreon.com/posts/secret... #anime #animation #sakuga #silentwitch #mamoruhosoda #dandadan #letoiledeparisenfleur #witchhatatelier #akanebanashi #sekiro #whitefox

Finally public! Ridiculous collection of veteran talent (Takahiro Kishida designs, Takuya Sato scripts, Takashi Mukouda action, Yuji Kaneko art direction, hell even Kutsuna as director counts!) in conjuction with some younger folk who Get their styles. Cool stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRju...

Wrote about the intersection of fascinating careers (a crazy producer, an undervalued director, the most textbook rising anime studio) that led to the Takopi anime, and how their attitude aligned with the show's wish for communication among disenfranchised people blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/08/15/t...

Last time he was listed for genga in a TV episode was in 2014, and only because someone else directed it. You have to look back 22 years to find him credited for animation in an episode of his. Once KyoAni took off, people like him & Ishidate embraced Kigami's approach of self-uncredited animation

Noriyuki Kitanohara animated moments like everyone's favorite chase sequence in Nichijou #02, so ofc he comes up with excuses to add similarly crazy bursts of BG animation in CITY. He said he was checking this scene in June 2024 but it feels like he animated it from scratch, uncredited as usual

A series of identical panels is unnatural, so in the context of a manga about cosplay like Bisque, it's enough to convey that you're looking at photos. Anime's framing is more consistent, so this gets entirely reconstructed into an immersive sequence that still emphasizes the snapshots. It rules!

Wrote about the intersection of fascinating careers (a crazy producer, an undervalued director, the most textbook rising anime studio) that led to the Takopi anime, and how their attitude aligned with the show's wish for communication among disenfranchised people blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/08/15/t...

Happy ChaO release to everyone who chooses to forget this

They alluded to an Ave Mujica movie with exactly 2 words and it's exactly the right ones to send brains into cope overdrive. Masterful, mr. bushi

Thinking of becoming an egg yumejoshi. They were meant for my plate alone and I'll take offense at other people eating them

You think the CITY anime can no longer surprise you, and then Keiichi Arawi himself shows up to compose the music for one skit. The relationship he's built with Ishidate and the rest of this team is the best thing to ever happen

Takopi anime summoned its older sibling

Ten Years of Turn A Gundam Content - Retirement My goal has always been to provide an accessible source of context and knowledge for reference purposes, and I feel like I've achieved that goal. Thank you for all of your support over the years! tsukinomayu.com/2025/08/08/t...

L'etoile de Paris en Fleur looks like a millineal animation nerd wish -Goro Taniguchi free of cynical shackles -Holy shit Katsuya Kondo concept designs -charozo adapting them! Can trust him to make simple designs emote nicely -Yeah sure Yuriko Chiba too, we need every all-time greatest chara artist

ゆこぴさんの「扇風機ビブラート」MVのアニメーションを担当させていただきました！ youtu.be/ZfaLuXdJlOo