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  • Miss Hokusai

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    It was a pretty great movie watching weekend for me, as I also watched the fantastic Miss Hokusai. I’d been meaning to watch it for quite a while, and I don’t quite know why it took me so long. Beautifully animated, it revolves around the daughter of uber famous Japanese artist Hokusai — she was an…

  • The Red Turtle

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    Last night I watched The Red Turtle, and I really don’t think there’s any other movie I saw this year that I enjoyed more. A mesmerizing and touching tale told with no dialogue, beautifully animated. I can’t recommend it enough, and it really makes me happy that Studio Ghibli believed in a project like this…

  • Till He Dies

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    If you’ve watched the excellent documentary about Studio Ghibli, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, then you already know that director Hayao Miyazaki isn’t the easiest of people to work with/for, and a recent NHK documentary shows that, well, he hasn’t changed much. This Kotaku article does a great job of sharing some of the…

  • Anime Films You Don’t Know

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    I wrote that as a title to this post because, as much as I think I’m pretty well versed in the world of Japanese animation, I have seen none of the 20 films mentioned in this post. It’s quite an interesting selection — 20 films that I guess could be considered a bit experimental or…

  • Lupin the Third

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    As I mentioned in my post about re-watching The Castle of Cagliostro, it got my in a Lupin mood, and so after watching a bit from the early shows I’ve now settled on watching a series that aired last year. Simply called Lupin the Third, it’s considered the fifth Lupin series, and is set in…

  • Matt Alt on Macross

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    As I continue to go through my site archives to fix posts, I’ve now hit 2008, and came across this post that pointed to a big feature by Matt Alt on Macross, that he had written for Neojaponisme. Since I’m currently in the process of watching The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, I thought I’d share…

  • The Notenki Memoirs

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    After my post about re-watching the Daicon III & IV shorts, my buddy Jason DeGroot pointed me to something I absolutely can’t wait to devour. This page hosts a digital version of the now out-of-print English edition of The Notenki Memoirs, an autobiography by Gainax founder Yasuhiro Takedo, who was also very active in the…

  • The Castle of Cagliostro

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    Continuing with my 80s anime run, last night I watched the Lupin the Third movie The Castle of Calgiostro. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, I’ve seen this movie countless times (and my wife even more), but it had been a while since the last time I watched it, and so it made for a fun revisit…

  • Dallos

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    Next up in my 80s anime stroll — I’m not necessarily following the exact order given in the primer, and instead watching stuff when I’m in the mood for it — is Dallos, which has the distinction of being the very first OVA (“original video animation,” or direct-to-video, if you will) ever released. It’s also…

  • Daicon III & IV

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    Following on my 80s anime playlist, I re-watched the two Daicon shorts, which I still find to be fantastic, especially the second one. These are animated shorts that were created for two conventions — Daicon III and IV — and have never been released commercially since they liberally borrow from all sorts of famous properties.…