Tag: Masaaki Yuasa
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From manga to anime: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
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Read More →: From manga to anime: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is probably the best anime of the Winter season, so let’s review what we can of its manga and learn a bit more about how a certain mangaka came to live out the dreams of his lively characters.
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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! episode 1 anime review
Read More →: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! episode 1 anime reviewKeep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is a love-letter to anime and, more broadly, the boundless potential of animation. It’s also really fun.
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Destroying her identity: the timeless, terrifying world of Kaiba
Read More →: Destroying her identity: the timeless, terrifying world of KaibaI have dreams. I want to do something with my life. I want to be remembered. In my own little world, everything revolves around me. Isn’t it terrifying then to imagine a world where all of those important feelings, the very things that make you what you are, can be compressed into a memory ‘chip’…
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Great romantic fools: The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Read More →: Great romantic fools: The Night Is Short, Walk on GirlIn 2017, Masaaki Yuasa directed The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, which is a film set in the same fictional universe as his 2010 series The Tatami Galaxy. I really liked The Tatami Galaxy. I remember thinking that it was a more conventional (and therefore more accessible) anime than his other works at the…
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Pure Anime
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Read More →: Pure AnimeHey guys. I know, I know. It’s been nearly 2 years. Putting pen to paper hasn’t been easy. I’ve been a bit jaded and distracted, but still, I think about writing. Every time I walk away, something brings me back. It’s because I love writing. I honestly miss it. This year I put down some…
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Blood tastes like iron
Read More →: Blood tastes like ironEven when there’s a guy like Masaaki Yuasa handling the adaptation of one of your favourite stories, there’s always a small worry that something won’t click. In Ping Pong‘s case especially, pairing Yuasa with mangaka Taiyou Matsumoto was almost too perfect, because as any one who has read Matsumoto’s other works will know (Tekkonkinkreet and…
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A Tatami Galaxy kind of year
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/ AnimeRead More →: A Tatami Galaxy kind of yearOf all the anime I’ve seen this year, probably the one that deserves blogging the most is The Tatami Galaxy. Life imitates art; and looking back on the past year, or the part of my life which, in many ways has abruptly stumbled to an end of sorts I can qualify the title. For me,…
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Fast dialogue is fast for a reason
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Read More →: Fast dialogue is fast for a reasonI’m a follower of people in the anime industry, but mostly, it’s just the (good) directors I like to keep tabs on. I delve into their works and the more I find, the more I trust in those same people to deliver yet more good anime. Hayao Miyazaki is a popular example, and Masaaki Yuasa…
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Why you should care about The Tatami Galaxy
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Read More →: Why you should care about The Tatami GalaxyI’m totally hyped about seeing the first episode of The Tatami Galaxy (Yojohan Shinwa Taikei). It finally aired this evening in the beloved noitaminA block and is already streaming on Funimation‘s video site, but… I’m region blocked! It’s been a while since I’ve been excited enough about a series to feel as frustrated as this,…
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Statement of intent: Spring 2010
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Read More →: Statement of intent: Spring 2010I can at least promise you this. I won’t suddenly just up and leave; I won’t go out at the top of my game; the end won’t be glorious, no, it will be a long, drawn-out and disappointing affair.