The weekly Naoko Yamada feature is back to Tamako Love Story with a direct interview including some of her best known and most fascinating comments about the film. Tamako Love Story interviews: Director: Naoko Yamada
The weekly Naoko Yamada translations have a bit of a broader scope this time around, as we’ll be covering an event featuring 3 other directors at the studio alongside her, to know more about her workplace and companions. This is a translation of a transcription provided by Sekai of the 4 Directors Discussion at the 2nd KyoAni/Do Fan Celebration Event. As it was from notes/memory, there may be some inaccuracies in the phrasing/wording of the answers, but the general theme…
This week’s Naoko Yamada-themed translation features a conversation between Ryousuke Takahashi and her; an old-school creator who has been part of the industry since the 60s and worked in pretty much every field involved in anime production – perhaps most known as the creator of Votoms – being fascinated by Yamada’s work and the modern trends she represents. This is a translation of a transcription posted by Sekai of the stage greeting following a screening of the award-winning Tamako Love Story by…
This week’s chapter of our weekly series of translations covering Naoko Yamada’s career reunites her with the scriptwriter Reiko Yoshida. Enjoy the long insight into the production of K-ON! The Movie! HTT Airlines, Flight JL401: Boarding seats 1-2: Director Naoko Yamada and Scriptwriter Reiko Yoshida K-On! The Movie opened on December 3rd, 2011 and the film spread to be seen by over 1 million viewers in theatres. However, all director Yamada had planned when first hearing about the series being…
Our friend megax is back this week with some more guest translations related to Naoko Yamada! Moving onto Tamako Love Story to celebrate that today is Mochi Day! Welcome to another week of our season-long celebration of the works of Naoko Yamada! This week, we go back to Yamada’s award-winning film, Tamako Love Story. Last week we saw the relationship between Yamada and her mentor, Tatsuya Ishihara. This week, we’ll get to see how she acts around the main voice…
This is the first post in a series by our collaborator megax, who will be hosting weekly translations highlighting Naoko Yamada’s oeuvre for the next few months. We thought it was an exciting project worth hosting, and we’ll be writing something for it as well. Enjoy!
Maybe I should have kept a silent voice if I intended to keep the contents of this post a secret.
This article is a guest translation by megax, a good friend of ours. Please thank him for his dedication to spreading production insight through the western fandom! Staff Roundtable Director Tatsuya Ishihara X Character Designer Shouko Ikeda X Series Director Naoko Yamada
This week I ended up disregarding the plans I had for this column almost entirely in lieu of interesting anime craft developments. Good news I suppose! Let’s get to it.
Last week I asked for a more moderate episode of Mob Psycho to have some breathing room for other series in here, and in the end we got a solo key animation work that could get pretty conclusively covered in its individual post. This show is nice to me even when conserving energy. Time for a change of pace then.