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Month: March 2023

The Long Quest To Fix Anime’s Collapsing Mentorship: The Young Animator Training Project, And Its Legacy 10 Years After LWA & Death Billiards

The Long Quest To Fix Anime’s Collapsing Mentorship: The Young Animator Training Project, And Its Legacy 10 Years After LWA & Death Billiards

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The collapse of anime’s mentorship systems and the attempts to fix them aren’t new. At its peak 10 years ago, the Young Animator Training Project produced Little Witch Academia and Death Billiards while raising new talent—but did it succeed, and what’s their legacy now?

Kyoto Animation’s Ever-Evolving In-House Culture, The Growth Of A New Animation Storyteller, And Tsurune: The Linking Shot

Kyoto Animation’s Ever-Evolving In-House Culture, The Growth Of A New Animation Storyteller, And Tsurune: The Linking Shot

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Kyoto Animation’s rebuilding process is allowing the most self-sufficient anime studio to foster in-house production in new ways, all while raising new generations of storytellers in animation—and Tsurune: The Linking Shot is a perfect example of it.