Background Art Company Atelier BWCA Closing Down
It’s always depressing to report on news like this. Atelier BWCA has been one of the best art studios in this field for years, and now they’ve been reluctantly forced to stop their services.
Anime Craft Weekly #29: Major Mainstream Misunderstanding – Part 2
On the first part of this essay I addressed some common misconceptions about anime widely enjoyed by general audiences; first regarding misguided attitudes like mainstream acceptance being related to excellence and artistic intent, but also important facts like the existence of huge family series invisible in online discourse. And perhaps more relevant to people’s interest, a sample of latenight shows that managed to reach non-anime fans, which proved that the assumed biases against common aesthetics and premises are massively exaggerated…