Episode 4 is directed by Shirahata! His Yorukura episodes (4 & 7 iirc) were strong too, really hyped up for today's episode!

Also, since Mitsuhiro Oosako already showed that he is a director that everyone should keep an eye for, I hope we get Ryuta Kawahara's episodes in Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu too. Yorukura team is strong.

(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

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

Apparently I can't delete my booru account :/
Well, someone ought to replace of all my uploads at this point