New Hiro series took me by surprise, but at the same time it's extremely Hiro. By which I mean it's about topics such as women, women's minutiae, dumbass dork women

Long-promised original yama anime at Colorido (and his own studio) is finally here! Sorry Proseka but this is the actual Vocaloid anime people used to dream about www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZr...

Stuff about Denmoku now that it's real & public: this is Not the project that was initially conceived, it has been rebooted. Some aspects make it quite obvious, like the fact that it's Minoru Ota's series direction debut, the shift in the setting, and the new subtitle. Fortunately, it looks great!

More Patreon notes! This time, I went through the Fall 2025 anime season to comment on the more interesting series & productions. The obvious standouts in a modest season are there of course, but I'd say the focus is on series that are likely to be overlooked www.patreon.com/posts/secret...

Secret Sabunga Notes #04 (Fall 2025 Anime Season Pre/Overview Edition) www.patreon.com/posts/secret... #anime #animation #sakuga

Wrote about The Summer Hikaru Died / HikaNatsu being planned as a sensorial experience, but in a way that reinforces its themes. Inescapable sound, morphing visuals, and inventive direction give slithery form to the horror of conformity & the allure of the other blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/10/19/h...

Anime musicals agenda thriving youtu.be/eUw1BS6A5LY

Wrote about The Summer Hikaru Died / HikaNatsu being planned as a sensorial experience, but in a way that reinforces its themes. Inescapable sound, morphing visuals, and inventive direction give slithery form to the horror of conformity & the allure of the other blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/10/19/h...

The Summer Hikaru Died / HikaNatsu’s Seeping Horror And The Concept Of Enshutsu Anime blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/10/19/h... #anime #animation #sakuga #TheSummerHikaruDied #Hikanatsu #光が死んだ夏 #ひかなつアニメ

Elegant even in her marriage rejections

More Patreon notes! Infinity Castle & the production philosophy that correlates to Kimetsu's success. Also: Milky Subway rules, Ruri Rocks' emphatic delivery binds edutainment and character writing, what to expect from Liar Game & Scenes from Awajima, plus other news www.patreon.com/posts/141290...

Secret Sabunga Notes #03 www.patreon.com/posts/141290... #anime #animation #sakuga #kimetsunoyaiba #demonslayer #rurinohouseki #rurirocks #milkysubway

Revue Starlight group rewatch hit some damn good episodes today

She has the inspiring ideology AND a thought-out political strategy. Can't imagine a better leader for our times, any times

Takako Shimura gang, we're so back www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRuv...

Finally caught some Fall anime premieres. Favorite so far is Yano-kun, which I was preemptively down on because it got tantalizingly close to a Yubisaki-like miracle adaptation yet ended up more down to earth. However: GREAT vibes and lowkey gorgeous color design by one of the best in the business

Wrote about the whys and hows behind the amazing improvements for season 2 of My Dress-Up Darling / Kisekoi. More experienced & bolder directors, better production circumstances, and engagement with more diverse subcultures in a way that reinforces its themes blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Exceptional Growth Of My Dress-Up Darling / Kisekoi Season 2 blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/10/08/t... #anime #animation #sakuga #MyDressUpDarling #MyDressUpDarlingSeason2 #bisquedoll #着せ恋 #着せ恋アニメ

They don't let women have hobbies anymore

Not huge into naroucore genres, nor into gimmicky alterations of their patterns, but sometimes you get one (Tensei Ojisan last year!) that knows how to play off a demonstrably funny idea. "What if villainess anime but she's terribly violent" has that potential to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBbX...

Wrote about the end of CITY: The Animation and how it once again raised the bar of brilliant animation, design, music, and sheer imagination to breathe life into Arawi's world. Many thoughts about an all-timer production & how it might connect to KyoAni's future blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/29/c...

Wrote about the end of CITY: The Animation and how it once again raised the bar of brilliant animation, design, music, and sheer imagination to breathe life into Arawi's world. Many thoughts about an all-timer production & how it might connect to KyoAni's future blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/29/c...

CITY: The Animation Final Production Notes And Kyoto Animation's Future blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/09/29/c... #anime #animation #sakuga #keiichiarawi #kyotoanimation #アニメCITY #animeCITY

Sayonara Lara looks so good that at this point it feels unfair to look at it as the distraction before the cobra awakens. Koide was already responsible for many of Revue Starlight's highlights, and his solo direction debut knows what to bring over (Hama graphic design!) while still feeling fresh

Starting a videogame with fog and heinous vibes

This is, incidentally, the funniest announcement of all time if you're a Precure fan. Yes it's Gatyapen directing it. Goat back

𝓜𝓮 𝓣𝓸𝓸 ȁ̸̴̸̡̞͇̮̻͕͕̫̯̭͕͕͇̝͉́̓̿͐̎̈ͫ̈́͋̇͑̔ͯ̚͢͞_͕̖̈́s̵̵̨͈̗͎͕͖̗̱͐̔̅͟͞ḑ̸̖̻͈̰̥͔̥͇͉̬̿͑̿́̃͌̈̚͟͢_̵̸̶̷̲͔͓̪̣̪͍̣̮͓̏̾ͩ́ͤ́ͫ̍͘f͖̱̠͈̅̌̌̆̇ͭ͢_͇̘̦̀͜ĭ̷͞_̴͈̞̯̖͕͍̲͔̪̘͕̭͈̣̞̓ͪ͗̃̌ͮ̈́͐̾̀̌̂ͥ̅͘͠_ͣã̶̸̸̴̩̗͉̻̬͍̳͓̥̩̭̤͓̿̈́̿͋͒ͦ͋͘_̷̶̥̣͎͕̅̋͐̈́ͯ͑̌͗̅͗̕͢͠ḩ̟̲͍̩́ͯs̵̸̢̛̜͍̞̪̥͖͉̯͕̿̾̇̀̒̈́̑̽̇͗͒̓̍̎̕͘͞f̷̴̧̛͍͚̦̲͈̬̰̪̘͇̼̳͐̂ͦ̽͑ͣ̄͑̈́̀̒͊̿̀ͫͧͮͮ̈ͮ͛́ͦ̏̚̕͠͠

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