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Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia Production Notes #01-06 – Historically Accurate Animation Meets Compelling Artifice

Lari ada WIBUAugust 7, 202618Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia is a one-of-a-kind effort in historical and cultural accuracy in TV anime, but also smart enough to introduce pointed, imaginative deceit to make for a more compelling story. Let’s delve into such a unique production! Chances are that you first heard about Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia as framed through…

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era Production Notes: Ken Yamamoto’s Prism of Possibilities

Lari ada WIBUOctober 7, 20257Views 0Likes 0Comments

Uma Musume’s Beginning of a New Era movie is the fiercest, most aggressively expressive sports film in a while. Beneath that bombastic animation horsepower, you’ll find an ingenious director’s uplifting story about possibilities that is worth exploring. Prisms are a universal symbol for potential, an array of possibilities. The way a ray of white light…

CITY: The Animation Final Production Notes And Kyoto Animation’s Future

Lari ada WIBUSeptember 30, 20257Views 0Likes 0Comments

CITY: The Animation ended with yet another explosion of exuberant animation, design, and music to capture Keiichi Arawi’s sensibilities and its joyful themes. Let’s take one last look at this all-timer production… and what’s next for KyoAni as well, while we’re at it. Our first piece dedicated to CITY: The Animation was meant as an…

CITY The Animation Production Notes 01 – Gdrivenime

Lari ada WIBUSeptember 27, 20256Views 0Likes 0Comments

CITY: The Animation is finally here, through an unusually close collaboration between author Keiichi Arawi and Kyoto Animation. To capture his original charm, the team led by Taiichi Ishidate found themselves experimenting with all sorts of inventive, fresh techniques. This is the story of the circumstances and creative choices that led to this adaptation, which…

The Animation Production Notes #02-11 – Gdrivenime

Lari ada WIBUSeptember 24, 20258Views 0Likes 0Comments

Working closely together, CITY‘s original author Keiichi Arawi and a Kyoto Animation team built around Taiichi Ishidate defied the norms of TV animation scheduling, stylistic trends, and regular workflows, all with a single goal: creating a unique show that’d spark the imagination. A fact about Kyoto Animation’s productions that is worth reiterating on a regular basis…

The Animation Production Notes #02-11 – Gdrivenime

Lari ada WIBUSeptember 21, 20257Views 0Likes 0Comments

Working closely together, CITY‘s original author Keiichi Arawi and a Kyoto Animation team built around Taiichi Ishidate defied the norms of TV animation scheduling, stylistic trends, and regular workflows, all with a single goal: creating a unique show that’d spark the imagination. A fact about Kyoto Animation’s productions that is worth reiterating on a regular basis…

CITY The Animation Production Notes 01 – Gdrivenime

Lari ada WIBUJuly 8, 20258Views 0Likes 0Comments

CITY: The Animation is finally here, through an unusually close collaboration between author Keiichi Arawi and Kyoto Animation. To capture his original charm, the team led by Taiichi Ishidate found themselves experimenting with all sorts of inventive, fresh techniques. This is the story of the circumstances and creative choices that led to this adaptation, which…

Dandadan Production Notes #05-07 – Sakuga Blog

Lari ada WIBUNovember 22, 202440Views 0Likes 0Comments

As Dandadan moves on to its next adventures, let’s give a final look at the Acrobatic Silky arc—the people responsible, their fascinating influences, and especially, the majestic final episode led by up-and-coming star Shuuto Enomoto. Although we frankly didn’t plan to write about Dandadan again this soon, the Acrobatic Silky arc came to an end…

Dandadan Production Notes #01-04 – Sakuga Blog

Lari ada WIBUOctober 29, 202420Views 0Likes 0Comments

Now that the first arc of the Dandadan anime is over, we can look back at how it represents its series director’s extraordinary obsession with internal logic, the way that has enabled creative choices, and also the limitations that its team has to navigate. In our first article about Dandadan, we focused on introducing the…

Dandadan Production Notes #01 – Sakuga Blog

Lari ada WIBUOctober 4, 202420Views 0Likes 0Comments

After the broadcast of Dandadan‘s first episode, it’s time to explore the team behind this work: not just the personnel and their creative choices, but the easily misunderstood directorial philosophy behind such bombastic fun. There are works you must let simmer before you get a good read on them. In the case of an inspired…