damn still need to catch up on last seasonals too tho

inosuke so sexy ong

Yoshihara is back

I was startin to think he was dead or somethin

Haven’t heard a thing about insomniacs, is it not good?

Demon slayer is up there with the best anime of all time(strictly ANIMATION WISE not plot)

i wont say it

Oshi no Ko so fars not really been able to match the highs of the first episode. Both episodes after so far have felt like two different set ups to things that just haven’t happened

Need

first ep was cute but ep 2 was kinda boring imo. i ended up putting it on pause cause i think the potential is there, but it might just be better to watch when the show is fully complete rather than weekly

I’m pretty sure people always get recommended a starter set of movies when they say they’re looking to get more into a certain genre or more seriously into film

I feel it's a lot different. Hell, even a cursory Google search of "entry level anime" comes up with a ton of websites listing shows aimed at anime beginners, but if you Google "entry level movies" or "entry level cinema" you really get nothing of the sort. Because why would you need an entry level movies list? Live action film is so ingrained in the culture that the majority of people can just throw on whatever movie they want and not even think about it.

Also the fact that people keep insisting on defaulting to using whatever punching kicking anime aimed at 9 to 18 year old boys as entry points for people new to the medium is why anime will never be taken seriously.

Do people suggest Marvel movies as entry points for people are who interested in exploring the medium of film? (This is actually a serious question here, I'm not part of film communities)

Well it's kind of different with so much fan service with minor aged characters in anime that people are wanting to avoid that

I've asked what are some good starter movies in this section before

I agree with this too

you are a prt of the letterboxed film communities tho

i'm choosing to believe this tweet was a direct response to the "anime for mature adults" thread in the life sxn

No they usually would point to movies like Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Alien, etc

Animator Spotlight: Kazuhide Tomonaga

All gifs in order
Mazinger Z (1974) Presumed
Future Boy Conan (1978)
Anne of Green Gables (1979)
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
Jarinko Chie (1981)
Sherlock Hound (1984)
Castle in The Sky (1986)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) Presumed
Pom Poko (1994)
The New Batman Adventures (1998) Presumed
The Wind Rises (2013)
Lupin III: Jigen’s Gravestone (2014)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015)
Lupin III: Goemon’s Bloodspray (2017)
Tower of God (2020)

Happy 71st Birthday to Kazuhide Tomonaga. There are few animators alive that have worked with titans of anime in tandem, them being Hayao Miyazaki and Yoshinori Kanada, a select handful fall into that pool and Tomonaga is one of them. He’s a true innovator of animation in the late 70s alongside Kanada, and has been one of the most long running animators ever, with a career spanning 52 years.
Tomonaga is one of the most pivotal animators on the Lupin III franchise and is still willing to work on it after all these years. Let’s dive into the chronology of this mythical legend that is Kazuhide Tomonaga.

Tomonaga, born in 52, grew up in the era of watching Osamu Tezuka shows like Astro Boy, and after Tezuka left Mushi Productions and that company went bankrupt anime essentially exploded with a ton of creative talent coming into fruition and studios being formed left and right. Miyazaki would be one of the first animators from that boom Tomonaga took to liking as his work with Yasuo Otsuka on Horus Prince of The Sun moved him. At 20, Tomonaga would be working at Tiger Productions , and did outsource in-betweening for Toei Animation on Devilman in 1972. Though credited to different episodes he must have been aware of a young Yoshinori Kanada who concurrently worked on Cutie Honey and Getter Robo. Though these titles would skyrocket the two as youthful and new animators on the scene, Space Battleship Yamato became the big breakout, especially for Tomonaga. The first instance of him showing off is on the second episode where he animated a majority of the flashback scene to the real life Yamato from World War II.

Tomonaga at 19:48-21:55

This an incredibly long sequence for its time. A time consuming effort almost wholly animated on 2s. Yes it doesn’t feel super realistic, but for the time this was almost unheard of in animation the only other anime using real life plane or car models was Yasuo Otsuka on Lupin III. There is a ton of attention to detail drawn on the planes, and Tomonaga fully commits to the approach and never meanders one time. This is a mechanical anime, and the true revolutionary at the forefront is Tomonaga. No animator at the time was immersing themselves heavily in the real life mechanical details and though limited it doesn’t feel toy like. You can feel the weight of it all. More exemplified by his spaceship cuts here sakugabooru.com/data/bf61a0c7541eee47d2dc29f23eeac362.mp4\. Tomonaga wasn’t only a great mechanical animator at the time, but character animator. In this brief action scene you can seem him handling multiple subjects in frame which is always difficult and demanding for even one animator to handle but Tomonaga does it easily with a modulating framerate between 2s and 3s sakugabooru.com/data/6fe0abced8b1fc512f8a5b10b531756c.mp4 (and he also does it here sakugabooru.com/data/225b60672432443d9442cbb659c3e606.mp4) After this scene from the last episode of Yamato Tomonaga got noticed.