A short interview with US VA Rachael Lillis.
Via Anime Insider: Rachael Lillis (March 2008)
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Via Anime Insider: Perspective on US Boxsets (March 2008)
An article talking about how cheaper boxset releases factored into the future of the US anime industry (circa 2008).
Via Anime Insider: Sean Molyneaux (March 2008)
Media Blasters’ Sean Molyneaux talks about the company’s decision to get involved in games.
Via Anime Insider: Unicorn Table (March 2008)
A short interview with Japanese band Unicorn Table where they talk about their work in writing anime theme songs.
ICYMI: Highlight Posts of 2014
Just though I’d toss this up here. I had a lot of fun writing/researching stuff this year, and I hope people found the content here useful or at least fun. Here’s an icymi list of links to some of my personal favorite 2014 pieces:
Fun With Numbers: The (Relatively) Predictable Light Novel Adaptation Market
Fun With Numbers: Do Elements of Ecchi Content/Fanservice Provide a Boost for Blockbuster Shows?
Fun With Numbers: The Non-Cancellation of Popular Manga Post-Anime
Fun With Numbers: The Big Range of Big Underestimates in Oricon Weekly Manga Totals
Active Engagement Through Timed Comments: Ping Pong The Animation
And also, if you haven’t read the first magazine article I scanned this year – Amos Wong’s Satelight piece – I highly recommend you do so. It was pretty informative regarding the politics of early CGI in animation, still probably my favorite one I scanned. I count myself as lucky I happened upon that particular page of that particular NTUSA issue while browsing a used bookstore; odds are the other 250-something scans of articles on this site don’t happen otherwise.
Fun With Numbers: January 2015 Amazon Data (Initial Numbers)
First-look US Amazon anime release data for the upcoming month of January 2015. Nothing interesting in the high-ranking titles right now, but for the first time in a while there’s a release (the A-Channel BD) that’s starting out at 66% off. All initial rank data was taken on December 29th, 2014.
Also, a rarity, I had no releases to track for the final Tuesday in December, so that rank data is done and available here. Cowboy Bebop spent a long time in double digits, and would have a good chance of charting against normal 10k-ish thresholds. It’s up against 40k-80k thresholds, so we’ll see how it does.
2014 Year-End Post: Lists of Stuff
2014 was fun. It’s also just about over, which made for a fun excuse to go back through the year and rank what my favorite things in it were. My favorite OP/ED sequences, Episodes, Anime, and Manga, are presented without comment below; I tend to think that these sorts of things speak for themselves.
Fun With Numbers: Line Theory 101
Quantifying the tradeoff between two key flavors of anime aesthetics
Via Anime Insider: Takehiko Inoue (February 2008)
A short interview with living legend of manga, Takehiko Inoue.
Via Anime Insider: Naoyoshi Shiota/Tetsuya Nakatake (February 2008)
Director Naoyoshi Shiota and producer Tetsuya Nakatake talk about the animation techniques and contracts involved in the production of Tokyo Marble Chocolate.
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