Sell Me in 20 Minutes: Nobunaga Concerto

Nobunaga Concerto was rough around the edges, squeezing a few chapters worth of material into its intro episode and getting sloppy with some more proto-animatronic CG. But the material, a solid-gold story about a guy accidentally living out Oda Nobunaga’s weird destiny by mostly having people misinterpret his random actions as those of a calculating genius, shone nicely through all that. I expect to be watching it for at least 2 more weeks.

Via Anime Insider: Katsuji Morishita (February 2006)

Producer Katsuji Morishita discusses working on Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic as two halves of a double feature project. Two particularly interesting tidbits here (among a few others):

-Tsubasa character designs were redone from scratch for the movie.

-Tsubasa movie director Koichi Mashimo was good friends with TV series director Itsuro Kawasaki, which helped smooth the transition between teams.

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