#Japanese animated

[akai-ito-official]

Mima Kirigoe: I don't know anything about myself anymore!

Perfect Blue (1997) film

directed by Satoshi Kon

[savagegood]

his best running gag

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[goodplan-ipromise]

[chunlo]

I just really like Sephiroth PRINTS

[my-kawaii--world]

I just wanted to post the most adorable plush that I found on the internet! It's just so adorable 🥺👉👈

**For the people asking the plush is available HERE (づ๑•ᴗ•๑)づ♡

[mindblowingscience]

Birds are famous for communicating vocally, but many have other options, too. Some communicate by dancing, for example, or by showing off their feathers. And according to a new study, at least one bird species does something more often associated with humans and great apes: symbolic gesturing. A songbird called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) uses fluttering wing movements to signal "after you," the study's authors report, similar to the way humans extend one open hand to let another person go first.

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[thatslimyfem]

this morning, I discovered that this kid in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla is meant to be the kid from Hamtaro

so while GxM doesn't exist in any prior Godzilla timeline, it does exist in the Hamtaro universe, which to me implies that the sentient hamsters are some form of mutation as well, possibly irradiated by-

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[the-gamer-land]

[daily--cats]

[53v3nfrn5]

Yoshitaka Amano: ‘Amon Saga’ Artworks from Anime V Magazine (1991)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Two Kittens by Kawano Kaoru (1950's)

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Just a small detail that I wanted to highlight from Netflix’s One Piece. Even though this is clearly a Western production of a Japanese series, as you can tell from the more Hollywood-ish dialogue and action, the series isn’t completely divorced from its Japanese roots. For example, in the first episode, you can clearly tell Koby and Luffy are eating with chopsticks. And the little girl serves chocolate onigiri to Zoro.

It feels like the reverse of how anime used to be treated in the early 2000s. Remember when Pokémon had to change the name of the food to stuff like donuts and pizza? Now we have a Western show that’s based on an anime, and they’re making sure not to erase the Japanese influence in the series.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Aoyama Seizan, Horses, 1930s

[chunlo]

Dune prints in the store for 24 hours on sale for 40% off

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