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Kyoto Animation’s Gentle Touch Adapting Keiichi Arawi’s Madness – Sakuga Blog

Back in 2011, Nichijou was an ambitious, bombastic, yet also thoughtful experiment to match the unique style of Keiichi Arawi’s with Kyoto Animation’s equally distinctive—and in some ways opposed—approach to the creative process. Ever since then, both parties have evolved as storytellers, and now it’s time for their next collaboration: CITY The Animation. Keiichi Arawi’s…

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An Eclectic Mix Of Avant-garde And Ordinary To Rise Above Limitations – Sakuga Blog

TV anime productions are often severely limited, so how do you rise from that to make something not simply good but genuinely extraordinary? Gimai Seikatsu and rookie director Souta Ueno found their answer: abstraction, eclectic storytelling, and avant-garde influences to twist genre tropes. On this site, we tend to talk about anime with relatively high…

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Director Midori Yoshizawa And The Synergistic Storytelling In Off & Monster Season – Sakuga Blog

Series director Series Director: (監督, kantoku): The person in charge of the entire production, both as a creative decision-maker and final supervisor. They outrank the rest of the staff and ultimately have the last word. Series with different levels of directors do exist however – Chief Director, Assistant Director, Series Episode Director, all sorts of non-standard…

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