Tag: sports

July 20, 2021 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. This sports documentary, just out in UK and Irish cinemas, opens with a scene from the anime short Danemon’s Monster Hunt at Shojiji (Yoshitaro Kataoka, 1935) in which the hero, trying to save the damsel in distress from the web of the evil spider witch, learns too late that the damsel is […]

June 5, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. If ever you want an example of how to build hype around an anime series, you could do worse than to take a leaf from the playbook of Kyoto Animation. In March 2013 a short, 30-second promotional video produced by off-shoot Animation Do appeared on television and online. Social media was ablaze […]

October 16, 2015 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. “I want to see more relaxed animation coming from Japan,” Ping Pong director Masaaki Yuasa told twitch.com. “Animation where everything is not so perfectly drawn. The strict way it looks now, it sometimes seems like working on anime is more pain than pleasure! I prefer to have joy in making animation.” Ping […]