Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu is so good, bless Takeshita and his team. I hope he gets the praise that he deserved since Yorukura was overshadowed and went under people's radar last year.
July 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu is so good, bless Takeshita and his team. I hope he gets the praise that he deserved since Yorukura was overshadowed and went under people's radar last year.
And in a post-Ghibli era, with the likes of Hosoda creatively falling off, so much of that is instead going to adaptations of easily digestible shonen jump adaptations that it's frankly depressing. So getting a Big Anime Movie that is original, weirdo magical girls? That's so much better
July 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Yeah that Hosoda's new movie is so cursed. Mirai no Mirai is still his best original movie for me.
(The caveat here is that some of the upside to being a big deal is canceled by it being a SHAFT production and thus haunted, but they still get cool people that most projects wouldn't have easy access to)
July 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
(The caveat here is that some of the upside to being a big deal is canceled by it being a SHAFT production and thus haunted, but they still get cool people that most projects wouldn't have easy access to)
And in a post-Ghibli era, with the likes of Hosoda creatively falling off, so much of that is instead going to adaptations of easily digestible shonen jump adaptations that it's frankly depressing. So getting a Big Anime Movie that is original, weirdo magical girls? That's so much better
July 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
And in a post-Ghibli era, with the likes of Hosoda creatively falling off, so much of that is instead going to adaptations of easily digestible shonen jump adaptations that it's frankly depressing. So getting a Big Anime Movie that is original, weirdo magical girls? That's so much better
If anything, I think anime films are in a cool place. 2025 alone gets us the likes of Housenka and Hyakuemu, both led by rising figures. Koike, Umetsu, and Kenji Nakamura are demonstrating that vets still have it. There's 4ºC stuff if you hate the working class. But those aren't the Big Anime Movies
July 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If anything, I think anime films are in a cool place. 2025 alone gets us the likes of Housenka and Hyakuemu, both led by rising figures. Koike, Umetsu, and Kenji Nakamura are demonstrating that vets still have it. There's 4ºC stuff if you hate the working class. But those aren't the Big Anime Movies
Used to have a rocky relationship with Madoka, in no small part because of what it did for the discourse around an entire genre, but some aspects of commercial anime have become so creatively rotten since the original broadcast that Walpurgisnacht Rising feels very exciting now youtu.be/iJazbGwBh-E
Used to have a rocky relationship with Madoka, in no small part because of what it did for the discourse around an entire genre, but some aspects of commercial anime have become so creatively rotten since the original broadcast that Walpurgisnacht Rising feels very exciting now youtu.be/iJazbGwBh-E