Good evening, good afternoon and good morning ladies and gentlemen! We find ourselves at the end of another year, recalling the good and the bad times, celebrating the lack of a hangover despite a wild night out, but also struck with the fear of hanging over a toilet bowl on New Year’s Day to keep the scales balanced. Most importantly, though, it’s the time of the year where we round up the sakubuta to present the ever-growing Sakuga Bowl and…
Comiket 92 was held last month, and as it tends to happen, many anime industry members released personal books compiling their work. And also as usual, we bought way too many of them. Our Patreon supporters were curious about the kind of material that creators put out in these events, so we’ll be showing you many samples of interesting books released this time around. This will be a more casual look at the work of anime artists than usual, so…
Anime sometimes has very specific roles, like Kazunori Ozawa’s recent duty to animate basically every explosion spell by Megumin on KonoSuba. And in rare occasions, these tasks can get explicitly credited under very amusing terms. Consider this a slightly instructive, but mostly comedy-focused, rundown of weird yet entirely real anime credits. What’s a Meal Animation Director? A Bear Supervisor? An Animation Director of Evil?!
It’s finally time for Part 2 of our selection of impressive openings and endings! Established specialists in this field, promising young geniuses, and even sequences that go beyond people’s usual conception of animation.