10 years ago, a project began moving. Now, the result is one of the greatest directors of dry Japanese cinema teaming up with a rising star in animation for a rotoscoped film about found family, the role of parents, and the funniest irreverent orange cat.
Nobuhiro Yamashita is a name that should be familiar…
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…