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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?

The Transition Between Ufotable’s Experimental Past And Polished Present: Kara no Kyoukai’s 15th Anniversary

The Transition Between Ufotable’s Experimental Past And Polished Present: Kara no Kyoukai’s 15th Anniversary

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The experimental ufotable of the past and the current finely-tuned blockbuster makers feel like entirely different studios. 15 years ago, Kara no Kyoukai began that transition: laying their modern foundation, but also embracing their originally chaotic and subversive ways.