#Junji Kobayashi

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ANIME RECAP: PRE-BLACK FRIDAY EDITION

Due annunci e otto nuovi video, tutti in un unico comodo pacchetto!

Ricordate il discorso sul fantomatico cestone delle news dalla quale pescano gli addetti giapponesi? Oggi sono partiti i primi sconti pre-Black Friday e mi ritrovo qua a segnalarvi una decina di novità, tutte fresche di oggi. Coincidenza? Io non credo (cit.) 

Sono quindi dovuto correre ai ripari e uscire con un nuovo ANIME RECAP. Speravo di pubblicare per prima di cena, ma ci ho messo più del previsto. 

Prima di lasciarvi alla lettura e alla visione dei tanti trailer, colgo l’occasione per un po’ di moneygrabbing e ricordarvi che sono un affiliato Amazon: i ricavi condivisi sono una vera miseria, ma ogni tipo di supporto è sempre gradito. Se aprite lo shop tramite il mio link, tutto quello che finirete per acquistare da lì in poi verrà considerato. Detto questo, via alle news ora!

🔶🔸RAGNA CRIMSON

Svelati locandina e primo trailer per la serie action fantasy in arrivo nel 2023, tratta dal nuovo manga di Daiki Kobayashi (Sky Blue, Satsui no Senki), edito in Italia da Panini Comics sotto l’etichetta Planet Manga.

L’adattamento è diretto da Ken Takahashi (Butlers x Battlers, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!) e in produzione presso SILVER LINK (When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, BOFURI)

🔶🔸 KAIKO SARETA ANKOKU HEISHI (30-DAI) NO SLOW NA SECOND LIFE

Locandina e primo trailer anche per la serie fantasy slice of life basata sull’omonima light novel di Rokujuyon Okazawa, che debutterà sulle tv giapponesi il 7 gennaio.

In questo caso, l’anime è targato ENCOURAGE FILMS (Deaimon, Is the Order a Rabbit? Bloom) e sta venendo diretto da Fumitoshi Oizaki (Romeo × Juliet), con l’aiuto da parte di Yoshihide Yuuzumi (Onee-chan ga Kita).

🔶🔸 ENDO AND KOBAYASHI LIVE! THE LATEST ON TSUNDERE VILLAINESS LIESELOTTE

Il primo episodio della particolare fantasy romcom, ispirata alla shojo novel di Suzu Enoshima, andrà in onda in Giappone il 6 gennaio. Con la data, sono stati rivelati anche una nuova locandina e un secondo trailer.

A regalarci un po’ di soave tsundering c’è Fumihiro Yoshimura (Kacchikene, Kumi to Tulip), che sta dirigendo la serie presso lo studio TEZUKA PRODUCTIONS (The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Dawn of the Witch).

🔶🔸SUGAR APPLE FAIRY TALE

Sempre il 6 gennaio ci sarà la premiere anche della serie animata, tratta dalla light novel fantasy sentimentale di Miri Mikawa, che potremo seguire in simulcast su Crunchyroll. Anche in questo caso, la notizia è arrivata accompagnata da una nuova locandina e un secondo trailer.

L’adattamento televisivo è diretto da Yohei Suzuki (DanMachi: Sword Oratoria, Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House) e realizzato in casa J.C.STAFF (DanMachi, The Duke of Death and His Maid).

🔶🔸LIAR LIAR

Il sito ufficiale si è aggiornato, svelando locandina, teaser trailer e i primi dettagli sulla serie scolastica che, nel corso del 2023, andrà ad adattare l’omonima light novel di Haruki Kuo.

L’anime vede il debutto alla regia di Satoru Ono e Naoki Matsuura, che stanno dirigendo il progetto in quel di GEEKTOYS (Date A Live IV, HenSuki).

🔶🔸LA PRINCIPESSA SACRIFICALE E IL RE DELLE BESTIE

Nuovo trailer per il fantasy sentimentale, basato sul manga di Yu Tomofuji, che qua in in Italia possiamo leggere grazie a Magic Press. 

L’adattamento, targato J.C. STAFF (DanMachi,The Duke of Death and His Maid), è diretto da Chiaki Kon (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III, La via del grembiule - Lo yakuza casalingo) e andrà in onda da aprile 2023.

🔶🔸LE BIZZARRE AVVENTURE DI JOJO: STONE OCEAN

Netflix ha diffuso un nuovo trailer in vista dell’arrivo, il 1° dicembre, degli episodi dal 25 al 38, che porteranno finalmente in streaming il gran finale del sesto capitolo della celebre saga generazionale, ideata dalla geniale mente di Hirohiko Araki, il cui popolarissimo manga è edito in Italia da Star Comics. 

Ricordo che anche questa serie è realizzata dallo studio DAVID PRODUCTION (Cells At Work! Lavori in Corpo, Fire Force, Spriggan), dietro alla supervisione di Kenichi Suzuki (Battle Tendency, Phantom Blood, Stardust Crusaders) e con Toshiyuki Kato (Captain Tsubasa, Così parlò Rohan Kishibe) alla regia. 

🔶🔸JUNJI ITO MANIAC: JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE

Pubblicata sempre da Netflix una seconda breve clip, tratta dalla nuova serie antologica dedicata al maestro dell’orrore giapponese, che approderà in streaming sulla piattaforma dal 19 gennaio.

Ad animare le storie nate dalla mente di Junji Ito torna STUDIO DEEN (Sasaki and Miyano), con alla regia sempre Shinobu Tagashira (Junji Ito Collection).

🔶🔸YUMEMIRU DANSHI WA GENJITSUSHUGISHA

Venendo agli immancabili annunci, Pony Canyon ha presentato, con tanto di teaser trailer, la serie animata della commedia romantica firmata da Okemaru.

La storia della light novel verrà portata in tv, nel corso del 2023, da Kazuomi Koga (Rent-A-Girlfriend, Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible), che sta dirigendo l’adattamento in produzione presso STUDIO GOKUMI e AXSIZ (World’s End Harem, Ms. vampire who lives in my neighborhood).

🔶🔸BULLBUSTER

Chiudiamo con quella che si prospetta una nuova sorpresa targata studio NUT (Deca-Dence, Saga of Tanya the Evil). Per il 2023, Kadokawa ha annunciato l’arrivo di una serie originale, che a quanto pare porterà in tv una versione più realistica e con i piedi per terra del classico anime mecha, puntando su una questione di solito ignorata: pilotare un robottone è fighissimo, ma quanto costa mantenerlo?  

Il progetto si basa su un concept di Hiroyuki Nakao e P.I.C.S (Oddtaxi); la regia e la sceneggiatura sono a cura di Hiroyasu Aoki (Hero Mask).

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Autore: SilenziO)))

blogger // anime enthusiast // twitch addict // unorthodox blackster - synthwave lover // penniless gamer

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Top six animes or mangas

I CAN DO BOTH

Anime:

1. Elfen Lied

2. Paradise Kiss

3. Mob Psycho 100 (all seasons)

4. Kobayashi-san chi no maid dragon (I SWEAR THIS IS A WHOLESOME ANIME WITH A LOT OF TITS YES BUT THE CORE HAS A VERY MELLOW MESSAGE)

5. Trigun + Trigun Stampede (I like both)

6. Samurai Champloo

* Honorable mention to Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood but come on: we all know is the best anime ever

Manga:

1. Paradise Kiss (surpriseeee I’m a slut for Ai Yazawa’s work)

2. No longer human (just finished it recently and oh my god Junji Ito you madman)

3. Wotakoi

4. I am a hero

5. Oishinbo (I would have put this one on anime too but I think both are a single entity and the anime would not exist without the manga so yeah)

6. Gokufushudou

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what will i be watching ♡ winter 2023

original series //

ars no kyojuu · buddy daddies · hikari no ou · itou junji: maniac · koori zokusei danshi to cool na douryou joshi · kubo-san wa mob wo yurusanai · mononogatari · nier:automata ver 1.1a · nokemono-tachi no yoru · ooyukiumi no kaina · otonari no tenshi-sama ni itsunomanika dame ningen ni sareteita ken · revenger · spy kyoushitsu · sugar apple fairy tail · the legend of heroes: sen no kiseki - northern war · tomo-chan wa onnanoko! · tsundere akuyaku reijou liselotte to jikkyou no endou-kun to kaisetsu no kobayashi-san

sequels //

bungou stray dogs 4th season · ijiranaide, nagatoro-san 2nd attack · tokyo revengers: seiya kessen-hen · tsurune: tsunagari no issha

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21 graveurs japonais contemporains. Avec des biographies d'artistes et des exemples de travaux de Junji Amano, Yoshisuke Funasaka, Kiyoshi Hamada, Shoichi Ida, Shigeyuki Kawachi, Hideki Kimura, Kiyoko Kobayashi, Shigeki Kuroda, Ahira Matsumoto, Mayumi Morino, Kansuke Morioka, Tadyoshi Nakabayashi, Masako Nakayama, Fumihiko Nishioka, Tetsuya Noda, Kazuhiko Sanmonji, Harumi Sonoyama, Shigeru Tanaguchi, Yoko Yamamoto, Hodaka Yoshida et Hiroyasu Yoshike. Editeur : Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art : 1979

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What I write for:

(Please feel free to reach out and ask if something isn't on the list)

What I’ve watched and have a relatively firm grasp on:

A plethora of songs that give off “yandere” vibes (I love writing stories based on songs)

Animes

Overlord

Demon Slayer

Black Butler (manga and anime) (platonic for the underage characters)

Quintessential Quintuplets

Junji Ito

Ouran High School Host Club

Death Note

Future Diary

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

Monster Musume

Interspecies Reviewers

Delicious in Dungeon

Video games

Twisted Wonderland

Pokemon (Black and White for humans and any game for Pokemon but platonic)

Resident Evil 7 and 8 (mainly platonic)

Little Nightmares (platonic only)

Doki Doki Literature Club

Helltaker Ib

Berrywitched!

The Jellyfish Girl’s Absolute Abnormal Adventure (only platonic)

Bad End Theater

Homegrown Pet

Spider’s Web

Witch Soup

Bonnie’s Bakery

John Doe

House Hunted

Today, I'm Harvesting You!

My Lovely Daughter (only platonic)

Movies

Coraline (platonic only)

Addams Family (1991 and 1993 films) (mainly platonic)

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (mainly platonic)

The Boy (1st movie only)

Van Helsing (2004 movie) (mainly platonic)

What We Do in the Shadows

TV shows

Hannibal (platonic only)

What We Do in the Shadows

Arbitrary

Helluva Boss (mainly platonic)

Dimension 20: Fantasy High, The Unsleeping City, and Escape from the Bloodkeep (mainly platonic for all)

Clinic of Horrors

Fairy tale concepts, mythical creatures, monsters, and cryptids

All non-humanoid creatures (sea serpents, dragons, etc.) will only be platonic (sorry to all hardcore monster fuckers but I'm just not into that)

Humanoid creatures (vampires, driders, robots/AI, etc.) can be romantic or platonic

Furries are welcome :)

What I haven’t watched in completion/at all but am somewhat familiar with (may be shakier with canon plot and characterization):

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Pokemon (anything other than BW)

DC (Mainly Suicide Squad, a few Batman movies, and parts of Gotham)

Soul Eater

💙🔹🩵🔹💙🔹🩵🔹💙🔹🩵🔹💙🔹🩵🔹💙🔹🩵🔹💙🔹🩵🔹💙

Mainly platonic: I prefer writing platonic for these because I have more ideas for it but I’ll still write romantic if it’s requested or an idea strikes

Only platonic: I can’t think of the characters in any way other than platonically so I would not be able to write them romantically. Some of these stories also include characters who are minors so I will not be writing them in a romantic sense

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Rurouni Kenshin Season 3 Episode 32: The Elegy of Wind and Water

Written by Seiji Togawa

Directed by Akira Shimizu

Storyboard by Junji Nishimura

Animation directed by Toshimitsu Kobayashi

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Days 1

Deadman wonderland 3

Food wars 16 serie 3

Frieren 16 (pausa 5 gennaio)

Gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun 9😀😀

Goblin slayer 2 s2😀

Hajime no ippo 18 s2😃

Ken shiro 12

Kiseiju 1😀

Kiyo in kyoto 6😀

Migi e Dali 10😀

Mushishi 3

My little monster 3

My roommate is a cat 1😀

Natsume 10 s6😀

Overtake 1😀

Paranoia agent 4😀

Restaurant to another world 8s2😀😀

Space brothers 4

The apothecary diaries 12

To your eternity 1😀

Usagi drop 3😀

Ushio e tora 5

Violet evergarden 2😀😀

Vita da Slime ova2 s1

Yowamushi pedal 26

Yuru camp 9😀

Zankyou no terror 8

Zom 100 10😀

29 totali

Serie A

Hajime no ippo😀

Kiyo in kyoto😀

Natsume😀

Goblin slayer😀

Paranoia Agent😀

Migi e Dali😀

Restaurant to another world😀😀

Finiti:

Blue lock 24⛔

Boku no hero ova, serie 6⛔

Buddie daddy 12⛔

Campfire cooking 12⛔

Chainsaw man 12⛔

Conan 26⛔

Cyberpunk edgerunner 10

Dorohedoro ova s1⛔

Demon slayer 11 s3

Farming life in another world 12⛔

Galaxy Express

Haikyu 25 serie 4⛔

Heavenly delusion 13⛔

Hell's paradise 13⛔

How to keep your mummy 12⛔

Insomniacs after school 13

Itou junji 12⛔

Kotaro ⛔

Junji ito: maniac 12⛔

Mashle 12⛔

Mob 12 serie 3⛔

My Love Story with Yamada-kun 13⛔

Nana ⛔

Nier automata

Noragami s2 1 ova

One punch man ova 6, serie2⛔

Oshi no ko 11

Ping pong ⛔

Pokemon: mezase Pokemon Master 11

Samurai Champloo 26⛔

Sk8

Skip and loafer 12⛔

Serial Experiments lain

Spriggan ⛔

The tatami galaxy ⛔

Trigun 12⛔

The tatami machine blues ⛔

Urusei yatsura 23⛔

Yuri on ice 12⛔

Tomo-chan is a girl (serie 1)

Reborn as a vending machine (serie 1)

My unique skill makes me OP (serie 1).

My happy marriage 12 s1

Horimiya serie The missing pieces

Link click serie 2

The masterful cat is depressed serie 1

Dororo 3

Heidi

Play it cool guys serie 1

Beastars serie 2

Children of the wales serie 1

Run with the wind serie 1

N°6 1

Made in abyss serie 3

Erased serie 1

The yuzuki family serie 1

Pluto Serie 1

My new boss is gufy Serie 1

Wonder egg serie 1, special

Tokyo revengers 13 s3

Spy x family 12 s2

Troncati:

Baki

Bleach

Naruto

Summertime rendering

Street fighter

Inuyasha

Akiba maid war

Kill la kill

Kobayashi-san chi no maid dragon

Ace attorney

Claymore

Trigun anni 90

Mix

Berserk

Tokyo ghoul

Gundam

Caro Fratello

Cowboy bebop

Hello spank

Bungou stray dog

Nanà supergirl

One piece

Love rice

FLCL

Shaman king

Ranma

Orange road

Aot

Sailor moon crystal

Full metal alchemist

Sakura

Golden kamui

Gundam unicorn

Pokemon serie 2017

Gundam: the witch from mercury

Devilman

Banana fish

Michiko to Hatchin

Kuroko no basket🤔

Kenshin vecchio

Sasaki to miyano

Elfen lied

Jujutsu kaisen

Tokyo mew mew

Sweet reincarnation🤔

Cat's eye

Gundam: TUTTI.

Creamy mami

Yu hakusho

My dress-up darling

Love live

Jojo

The ancient magus bride

Ultraman

Cowboy bebop

Hunter x hunter

Maison ikkoku

Why raeliana enden up

Ai yori aoshi

The girl I like forgot her glasses

Denpa Kyoushi

Sabage-bu

Dragonball

Saint seya 2

Ryu 2

Black lagoon

Kyoukai no kanata

Neroi no one piece

The kingdom of ruin

Rurouni Kenshin

Tsurune special 1

Given 8

The yakuza's guide of babysitting 2

Anna dai capelli rossi 1

Undead unluck 2

Visual prison 1

Free 9

Undead murder face 2

Cagaster of an insect cave

Trapped in a dating sim

Monster 11

City hunter

Hanatora

Hyouka

Ron kamonohadhi's forbidden deductions

Vinland saga 12

A boy and her guard boy 6

Bastard 20

Gakuen babysitter 2

Attack number 1 20

Eyeshield 21 5

Ace of Diamond 12

Ao ashi 5

Pokemon horizons 1

Gintama 3

Bocchi the rock 4

Shirokuma cafè

A galaxy next door 5

Kuma miko 1

Cinderella chef 3

Non non biyori

Scott pilgrim 2

Noein

Atom the beginning

Ge ge ge kitaro 3

Monogatari 3

Dr stone 10

Fate/series 0

Outlaw star 1

Salaryman's club 4

Ai tenchi muyo 1

Ransie la strega 2

Digimon adventure 1

Violet evergarden 2

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60 ANIME STIMBOARD CHALLENGE

(I made this challenge for me with anime I’ve watched but if you want to do it to feel free)

1 - Dragonball Z

❤️ - Captain Ginyu | 💜

2 - Another

❤️ - Deaths

3 - The quintessential Quintuplets

❤️ - Miku Nakano | 💜

4 - Assassination Classroom

❤️ - Koro-Sensei

5 - Yuri on Ice

❤️ - Yuri on Ice

6 - One Piece

❤️ - Roronoa Zoro | 💜

7 - Bocchi the Rock

❤️ - Hitori ‘Bocchi’ Gotou

8 - Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan

❤️ - Dokuro-chan

9 - Onimai

❤️ - Mahiro Oyama

10 - Yarichin Bitch Club

❤️ - Yuri Ayato

11 - Classicaloid

12 - Cowboy Bebop

13 - Date A Live

14 - Death Note

15 - Death Parade

16 - Ultimate Otaku Teacher

17 - Keep Your Hands of Eizouken

18 - Eromanga Sensei

19 - Fullmetal Alchemist

20 - Gabriel Dropout

21 - Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun

22 - The way of the househusband

23 - Great Teacher Onizuka

24 - Gugure! Kokkuri-san

25 - Happy Sugar Life

26 - Cells at Work

27 - Hetalia

28 - Hozuki’s Coolheadedness

29 - Hyouka

30 - Don’t Toy with me, Miss Nagatoro

31 - Junji Ito Collection

32 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War

33 - Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

34 - Love After World Domination

35 - Komi Can’t Communicate

36 - Lucky Star

37 - Magical Girl Raising Project

38 - Magical Girl Site

39 - Mob Psycho 100

40 - Monster Musume

41 - Nanbaka

42 - Nichijou

43 - Noragami

44 - One Punch Man

45 - Merman in my Tub

46 - Ouran Highschool Host Club

47 - Panty and Stocking

48 - Pop Team Epic

49 - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

50 - The Helpful Fox Senko-san

51 - Shimoneta

52 - My Dress-Up Darling

53 - Soul Eater

54 - Space Dandy

55 - Trigun

56 - Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out

57 - Watamote

58 - Kiss Him, Not Me

59 - Wonder Egg Priority

60 - Zombieland Saga

❤️ - Saki Nikaido

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On Animation

These are mostly some personal views and experiences, you are welcome to read but don’t hold high expectations. In the last 2 years or so I didn’t watch as much anime as I used to, probably because I don’t find anime as entertaining as before. My interest in sakuga and Japanese animators was the first time I found value in animation itself, regardless of other aspects such as the story. The sheer expressive power of Ohira’s drawings, or Kanada’s unique timing, all brought me joy and still do.

Yet even this joy I find in sakuga won’t last forever, and I can say that rarely does any scene amaze me like my first contact with works from not only legendary animators such as Ohira and Kanada, but even Ebata and Tanaka. I didn’t lose my interest in commercial sakuga that’s for sure, most what I watched lately were obscure shows I wanted to see what X animator or X director did in them. It’s just that I’m looking for something new, and I knowingly didn’t experience basically anything the wide medium of animation has to offer.

I think the majority of anime fans, animation fans in general even, just watch animation because it’s “anime” or maybe “Disney”. If an anime with a somewhat good story and almost still good-drawn images was to be produced, I bet it would gain some following and popularity among non-japanese fans at least. I also bet such a thing already happened. This reminds of a funny phrase I heard from a friend: “people think that animation isn’t important in animation”.

But then, everyone is free to prefer whatever they want in my opinion. I just think that people who have this view don’t see the real merit of animation and its real beauty, to a big extent at least. Works with outstanding stories and fascinating themes such as Ghost in the Shell receive praise mostly due to that aspect only, the story and themes, with maybe mentioning “good and smooth” animation as a side point. But such works exhibit what really makes animation what it is and takes of advantage of the capabilities of this medium, just look at the Hollywood adaptation to compare(regardless of the fundamentally different execution).

Maybe the main approach of commercial animation takes most of the blame here. Ask any random person “what is special about animation?”, and probably the answer would be something along the lines of “unlimited imagination” or “fascinating imaginary worlds”, referring to Disney’s princesses or Ghibli's fantasy. Yet live-action movies are capable of creating such worlds thanks to modern and even kinda old technology(if we ignore the ongoing controversy regarding the definition of these works), while other more realistic animation works such as Satoshi Kon’s show animations’ features and perks, the features that are the reason why he famously prefered to use animation in all his movies despite being more of a live-action director in nature. What I’m trying to say is this: animation isn’t just a container with the sole purpose of conveying a story or a message, nor is the importance solely in the content conveyed, but in the way it’s conveyed. That’s why a lot of people who work in animation refuse the idea of mimicking live-action, for example.  

After sakuga my interested shifted towards independent and experimental animation especially the japanese ones, like Koji Nanke and Youji Kuri. The story of independent japanese animators is a long one, better covered here. Watching their works made me realize more and more how diverse animation is, and the different exciting ways to transmit an idea through animation. You may say that everything I said till now was just cretesizing commercial animation and praising independent/experimental animation because I love them, yet I didn’t deny that Ghibli and Disney(2D) movies, which are commercial for sure, are some of the best animation works from a technical and artistic standpoint. What I’m criticizing is the narrow outlook on animation, even among the commercial works. Animation isn’t only hand-drawn or 3D, you have collage and stop-motion and puppets and others. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the former Association of Japanese Animations(AJA) president, the late Kihachiro Kawamoto, never drew anything, he was but an amazing puppet animator. Before Kawamoto was Tezuka, a person who plainly hates commercial mainstream animation and whose experimental works probably outnumber his commercial ones. Kawamoto’s successor, the current president Taku Furukawa, is a renowned independent animator and one of Youji Kuri’s students. Movies such as Isle of Dogs getting a wide positive reception makes me happy.

A famous use of collage was in Madoka Magica’s labyrinths, which Gekidan Inu Curry duo handled. It consists of Shirashi Ayumi(former Gainax) and Anai Yosuke(former defunct studio named Tanto). Their participation in Madoka Magica and many other Shaft shows came probably due to their relation with the director Yukihiro Miyamoto. I went a bit off track, but all this was to say that I enjoy Kihachiro Kawamoto’s collage works especially such as The Trip(1973), although he is better known for his puppet works, that are great nonetheless. This isn’t because I don’t enjoy puppetry, Jiří Trnka amazes me- for example. I bet that his magnum opus, The Hand(1965), would astonish any animation fan not only in its visuals, but in the way it handles and presents its themes as well, which led to banning this movie that obviously opposes the communist occupation of Czech.

from right to lefr: Madoka Magica, The Trip, Kenju Giga.

Now that I mentioned Czech, it’s one of the richest countries when it comes to animation and animation history. Many other east-european countries as well. Trnka is enough on his own, but even with other animation arts it’s a region that has a rich and old history of experimentation and early works. Tezuka’s inspiration for his short Jumping(1984) came from none other than a hungarian short called The Fly(1980). The animator behind Jumping, Junji Kobayashi, reminds me always of a fun fact about Tezuka. Kobayashi himself has a deep passion for insects and wildlife in general. Alongside being a member of multiple insect societies and organisations, including The Japanese Association for Insects, he wrote a book on how to animate animals based on Mushi/Tezuka Pro's principles. But if there's a bigger insects nerd than him, it's Tezuka, who deliberately added the kanji for insect(虫) in his pen name(same reading to his original name). Tezuka also has some books on insects or animals, in a fictional or realistic depiction. The last book I want to mention, the most interesting probably, is Kobayashi's "Osamu Tezuka That No One Knows - The Mess of Mushi Pro", an interesting title especially when you consider that Kobayashi is one of the oldest Mushi Pro members, having spent about 23 years with Tezuka till his death. Kobayashi joining Mushi Pro in the first place may have been due to Tezuka sharing him his insects passion, as "Mushi" is the same "insect　虫" in Tezuka's pen name after all.

Anyway, what I was trying to say is this: If you are looking for something more than just "brainless fun", try watching different kinds of animation, the world of animation is vast and diverse. Some works that I like(not necessarily a good start for everyone):

Aru Machikado no Monogatari(1962, Mushi Pro)

The first project by Tezuka's Mushi Pro. He tried different styles in this movie, demonstrating his intentions from the beginning. Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, whose start was in another experimental studio named Otogi Pro, with animators such as Gisaburo Sugii, it is one of the best works the studio produced. It contained a variety of interesting and beautiful styles, even limited animation was used although there is no economical constraint here, what makes me think that it was an experiment before going all limited with Astro Boy later. A great movie overall.

Jumping(1984, Tezuka Pro)

There is a nice interview about this short and experimental works in general with Osamu Tezuka here.

Machikado no Märchen(1984)

The Hand(1965, Jiří­ Trnka)

Tabi(1973, Kihachiro Kawamoto)

Kenju Giga(1970, Kihachiro Kawamoto)

The Fly(1980, Ferenc Rofusz)

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Every Amagiri in order of how much i like the portrayal of the character.

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Uzumaki 『うずまき』(2000) Written by Takao Niita 新田隆男 Directed by Higuchinsky Cinematography by Gen Kobayashi 小林 元

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Bad anime character summaries!

"I'm ten years old and uncomfortably lesbian for my best friend"-Tomoyo Daidouji "I'm ten years old and uncomfortably straight for my fiance (who is my cousin)"-Meilin Li "I'm ten years old and uncomfortably straight for my teacher (who is also my fiance?)"-Rika Sasaki "I'm ten years old and comfortably straight for my nerdy male friend"-Chiharu Mihara "I'm ten years old and comfortably straight for my rival, but uncomfortably straight for my brother's best friend (who is also one of my magical guardians)"-Sakura Kinomoto "I'm 16 years old and quite comfortably gay for my master's brother, but politely reject her childish crush"-Yue/Yukito Tsukishiro

"One day I'll be a superhero princess, but right now I'm kinda a snot"-Chibi Usa "Ravioli ravioli I am the the cutest loli"-Kanna Kamui "I'm a third grader that orgasms around my best friend"-Rika Saikawa "Chubby Gal explains it all"-Galko-chan "I was already bland in the light novels, but the anime killed what personality I had"-Kirito "I lived, bitch!"-Guts and Casca "Immortal girl loves art, wants to die"-Tomie "Rich girl loves to farm, is scared of boys"-Katarina Claes "When your family are a bunch of murderous, backstabbing, incestuous assholes and forgetful incompetent idiots, turn to witchcraft and detective novels and make your life a living cosplay"-Sayo Yasuda/Beatrice from Umineko "Cute little girl becomes the Queen of Hell"-Sachiko Shinozaki "There are exactly two things I love in this world: fencing, and my girlfriend"-Utena Tenjo "My girlfriend became God, so I tricked her into thinking I was dying to rescue me, then stole her powers and became the Devil"-Homura Akemi

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