Gift Title: Asura (Ashura)
Namu Amida Butsu and mindfulness of the Buddha, this holiday season.
Gift Title: Asura (Ashura)
Namu Amida Butsu and mindfulness of the Buddha, this holiday season.
Gift Title: Rainbow-Colored Fireflies: The Eternal Summer Vacation (Nijiiro Hotaru: Eien no Natsuyasumi)
Even seemingly endless days must, inevitably, come to an end.
Continue reading “Rainbow-Colored Fireflies, Anime Secret Santa 2014 (Part 1)”
This Week: Route 20: Galactic Airport (Pilot Film) [R20: Ginga Kūkō]
One of Gainax’s abandoned film projects on the side of the road.
This Week: Future War Year 198X (Future War 198X-nen)
An irradiated casualty of the English dubbing anime script adaptation wars of long ago.
Continue reading “Mothballs: The Future War of 198X, Decades Later”
This Week: Stamp Fantasy (Kitte no Gensou)
We edge ever closer the one of the busiest shipping and transport times of the year, so taking some time to focus a bit on a film about stamps feels appropriate.
This Week: Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (Miyamoto Musashi: Souken ni Haseru Yume)
Much of history can be debated and interpreted in different lenses, though I do hope it is fair to think Miyamoto Musashi would at least be happy at the prospect there are people still trying to learn what he had to teach.
Continue reading “Mothballs: In His House at Reigandō, Musashi Waits Dreaming”
This week: Fantascope ~tylostoma~
Yoshitaka Amano creates a lonely world of few colors, and even fewer people.
This Week: Hells (Hells Angels).
Hell may well be where the studio had forgotten this movie.
This Week: The Midnight Parasites (Kiseichuu no Ichiya)
Yōji Kuri was, at one point in the 1960’s, the most internationally famous Japanese independent animator. The unofficial “head” of the Animation Association of Three (Animation Sannin no Kai) group by virtue of his prolific output, even among his two peers which included Ryohei Yanagihara and Hiroshi Manabe, he was instrumental in spearheading a wider awareness and celebration of Japanese experimental and adult animation in film and counter-cultural circles.
Yet, I have never before touched on any of Kuri’s works on this blog.
Continue reading “Mothballs: The Parasites Walk At More Than Midnight”
This Week: Gestalt (Heya/Keitai)
I had a variety of university dorm rooms in my time, but I will never be able to say I ever used one quite like this.
Continue reading “Mothballs: To The Glory Of The Most High Gestalt”
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