Super-Patriotic Anime Youth Wars! – Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/23/super-patriotic-anime-youth-wars-china-japan-pop-culture/

There are four romance-comedy anime endgames: Nozaki-kun (emphasize obliviousness), Negima (expand number of girls), Gamers (emphasize complexity of misunderstandings), & now Kaguya-san (emphasize the role of pride). I approve of all of them.

The best anime of 2018 have something in common: they take something already done, & do it confidently, with craft, and in a more laid-back & less frenetic way.

So there is a ‘Thing on the Fourbleboard’ anime, sort of: Wasurenagumo.

Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies “ 2019 | Anime and Manga Studies https://animemangastudies.wordpress.com/bibliographies/2019-bibliography/

GitHub - divan/txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes https://github.com/divan/txqr

The Anime Cult - The Mike Toole Show - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-12-13/.96470

Shinto shows the debt to animism of organised religions today | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/shinto-shows-the-debt-to-animism-of-organised-religions-today

Band name of the day: timeless animals

Man as a Rationalist Animal – sam[ ]zdat https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/

How Does Netflix Affect the Anime Industry? | Anime Studio Spotlight - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faTmvoz7Smw

The Animated Guide to Paredit http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

SisterWriter is so weirdly lazy at times. Like, just rotating a cut 90 degrees and doing a static panning shot… Though, the characters are constantly off model and rarely animated or properly posed, so that might be for the best…

Anime Has A S3xual Harassment Problem - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0G1jvz0khQ

The Japanese Cult Producing 20+ Years Of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6tS14HFsmA

PC: runs around aimlessly, goes through the same set of animations all the time, can only do what the programmers thought to add↵NPC: has a dayjob but does whatever they want offscreen, has boatloads of money, owns a wicked castle

A gallery of paintings that know where you look: Animals that hide in your blind spot, portraits that always meet your eyes, a little man with a sign running around trying to block the view, Escherian paradoxes that you’d swear were tangled differently the last time you checked

Anime SHOULD BE(and is) POLITICAL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDQkf-0ke9o

at last, first contact comes - from the storms, then from the waves, then the mountains, “sorry we didn’t realize animals could be intelligent, to be honest we wrote you off once you left the oceans, how dumb is that hahah

unicode 2040 features:↵- amoji: emoji, but abstractified like any ideographic writing system in active usage↵- hypermoji: animated, holographic, interactive, moody, you name it↵- U+FFF6 ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ ᴜɴᴀᴠᴀɪʟᴀʙʟᴇ ɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴊᴜʀɪsᴅɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ (usually a transparent square)

Could Patreon Be “Better For The Industry” Than Crunchyroll? - Answerman - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-08-29/.136030

The Problem With Anime Subtitles - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4BrhIFcmo

So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isn’t it… Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasn’t until You’re Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasn’t just like 3 guys doing it.

If ‘Evil Maid Attack’ doesn’t literally become the name of an anime soon what is the industry even doing? It’s right there.

The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ

My Hero Academia & The Quest For the Perfect Shounen Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAV1uv3lPBQ

Hot take: really strongly associating anime with japanese-ness is weird in the same way as immediately associating westerns with italian-ness, & marks casuals/outsiders to fandom. It’s a syncretic medium with a hotbed in japan.

I’m half-convinced that the new popular trolling tactic with the youths is to respond to screencaps of popular anime asking what show it is when they already know the answer.

Why Are There So Many Anime Elitists? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6XMBRM6A4

No, TRIGGER’s Patreon Won’t Save Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbSzCW8fsM

But be careful! Whenever the god of these woods walks down an animal trail, it leaves behind unbroken forest. Many adventurers have gotten lost this way

Kunihiko Ikuhara: A Revolutionary Director of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNJ80N1Aoc

Onegai Twins is like if David Lynch tried really hard to make an unremarkable harem anime. Everything is just slightly off about it, but not in ways that can be easily articulated.

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

embots: like sexbots, but instead a superstimulus for empathy; often used on the streets as beggars or political activists (which is why sometimes, the cute animal rights girl in front of you explodes in a shower of sparks and broken parts as yet another victim of anthropol)

The Lost Magic of Traditional Anime Production - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Lm5P-mJCk

‘It’s an Anime Titty Holocaust:’ Steam Is Cracking Down on Visual Novels - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkxdk/steam-banning-adult-anime-visual-novel-huniepop

Full-body high-resolution Anime Generation with Progressive Structure-conditional Generative Adversarial Networks | DeNA Co., Ltd. http://dena.com/intl/anime-generation/

spirit animals, spirit plants, spirit fungi, spirit moss, a whole tiny spirit ecosystem that follows you around

How Do Original Anime Get Made? | Anime Studio Spotlight - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUWZcZZHqw

Isekai Anime Survival Guide - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2DzAQYw68

Man as a Rationalist Animal – sam[ ]zdat https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/

Band name of the day: the becoming animal

Is every anime containing WcDonalds as a trademark-free McDonalds expy now retroactively progressive? Like, even SAO? (Hint: no)

Band name of the day: fantastic animal

Anime‘s Dead Horse - Why We Keep Coming Back to SAO - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNDC8ieiirc

Band name of the day: animal vigour

How to Survive a Harem Anime - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmtiDbg4xY

AMV - Schrodinger‘s Box - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bOm7DrJ7o

AMV - LoveStruck - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5eCtfpWySA

AMV - Pandora - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSu7oveH-1Y

AMV - Pencilhead - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bx0dEYiDYw

Into The Labyrinth - Anime MV ♫ AMV - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXX7dRULFaE

tan(x) (clean) - Anime MV ♫ AMV - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TiyOJZvXEc

AMV - RAH HEY! - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s9PsfAAvY

AMV - Safety Dance - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z9PKIOEwI

AMV - Beatcaster - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaRsW_f0_o

AMV - The Nightmagi Cometh - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKxNI7_5dc

AMV - Affective Schoolgirls - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHRi67mlsc

AMV - Just Funkin‘ Dandy - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzx3p12kB4

Animating Virtualities in Net-juu no Susume - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggo7jpFBaTE

Why the Oscars Don‘t "Get" Animation - Especially Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfyMD5rSK50

Weird Old Anime: The Arthouse Filler Movie - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1P0Li54-g

TIL: doing google image search for ‘japanese ’ is useless for finding reference images for contemporary japanese architecture. ‘anime ’ works much better.

I am Masaaki Yuasa, Director of Lu Over t… https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/7rypm2/i_am_masaaki_yuasa_director_of_lu_over_the_wall/

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/7rywat/masaaki_yuasa_ama_overview/

WATCH OLD ANIME - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztNup6Xlew

Richard Williams- Animating Movement - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAwfXsYMrA

The Problem With Card Game Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6YeGCM1wo

Anime Openings openings.moe

Fan Service in Anime vs. The Monogatari Series [PART 2] - Redefining Relationships - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBT3wH_0NGw

Fan Service in Anime vs. The Monogatari Series [PART 1] – Subverting Our Biases - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQa3dHlHSg

Keeping Old Anime Alive in the Age of Simulcasts - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeyGbjUCdc

Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? - Atlas Obs… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-power-lines-anime-electrical-infrastructure

1: animated masks, covered in breathing feathers, clockwork, small animals↵2: screens in place of faces, some still look like faces, others play reaction gifs or random streams↵3: the above, but they’re touchscreens and touching another’s face is just… normal, why don’t you?

sitting in one of the windows together, immersed in a game of spotting the animals before they disappear again, only the engine’s hum in the background

maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it

sentient clouds earthgazing, hallucinating clouds into the movements of animals↵↵the same clouds stargazing, waiting for the night the nebulae out there would contact them

In the night, you watch the ground from a branch. The stars still shine, the night sky is below you, interrupted by roots and night animals

You’ve long been lost in these woods. You feel no hunger. The trees remind you of animals. Every morning, it is harder to unroot yourself

Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/humans-are-the-only-animals-who-crave-oblivion-through-suicide?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=08e7309df2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-08e7309df2-68693017

It’s not that we didn’t try uplifting other animals - it’s just that each and every one rejected consciousness, often screaming or catatonic

An Insider’s Look At Working In The Anime Business https://kotaku.com/an-insider-s-look-at-working-in-the-anime-business-1796312543?curator=MediaREDEF

Old-Ass Anime Cast #8: Moe - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ow-dJVtXLM

Old-Ass Anime Cast #9: Otaku - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzdhd0Eyax4

Book Club 8: Susan Napier‘s Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3osCGNf-1w

How Much Do Anime Visuals Matter? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OAFTrelNo

How Moe Is SAVING ANIME - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o6ei05amo&t=626s

We uplift animals, trees, then stones, lurk the forums of sentient rivers to learn how they experience rain

her memory palace has trapdoors, elevators, secret passages, shifting rooms↵↵his is a memory forest: ancient oaks, animal trails, burrows

The animal colloquially known as “lens flare” is in fact a usually invisible moth that’s drawn to cameras

In an untold version of the Odyssey, Circe left Odysseus on her island to rot and became Captain Circe, ship crewed with her animal servants

Anime snail girl archetype: Quiet, curious, wears her house on her back and disappears into it when startled,

A humanity in which eating a slain animal is a sacred act and cannibalism even more so, in fact has been for as long as anybody can remember

When the lumberjacks left, the dryads quickly turned feral, having lost their protective function. Their woods are empty of animals.

kyberspace aesthetic: golden wires and flesh, cinema projectors crossed with punchcard looms, people&animals wired intimately into machinery

The mechanical storyteller whirrs, clicks, spits out a slip of paper: “animal made of gravity”↵I envision a star cluster and start typing.

A slow heartbeat animates the streets, barely perceptible. As the last inhabitant leaves, the city yawns, stretches, and goes the other way.

A starfarer’s constellations are ephemeral like a surfacer’s cloud formations. As stars move, mythical animals emerge and vanish in silence.

The production budget has run out. Tea is tasting stale, the animals are tired, the night sky shows stains like a run down cinema’s screen.