Yuri Lowenthal talks about voicing Dr. Tokita in Paprika and his respect for Satoshi Kon.
Via Anime Insider: Yuri Lowenthal on Satoshi Kon (May 2007)
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Via Anime Insider: Terry Kalagian (May 2007)
Short interview with Terry Kalagian, who worked at both Cartoon Network and ADV.
Via Anime Insider: Kazuki Akane (April 2007)
An interview with director Kazuki Akane regarding the Noein TV series. He discusses various aspects of the show, including, most interestingly, the production delays the series experienced. He attributes them to what he describes as both a “tug-of-war” and a “fight” with the character designer to get the artstyle he and the team wanted. Given Takahiro Kishida’s record (even just up to 2006), I think it’s less likely the beef there was with him specifically and more likely it was with one or more higher-ups.
Oh, and there’s also some stuff from him on the respective pluses and minuses of TV and movie anime.
Preemptive Warning:
Please don’t be the guy who links this article as decisive evidence that Noein failed to sell disks because of such and such a reason. People who look at sales numbers with any kind of regularity should know better than to just assume that any one reason causes people to buy or not buy a show en masse. That said, while I love very much the way the series turned out, I can’t blame whoever was pushing more moe character designs for pushing something they thought might help sales.
Via Anime Insider: Tomoki Kyoda (April 2007)
An interview with Eureka Seven director Tomoki Kyoda. Contains some neat anecdotes, including watching snowboarders in the Tokyo Dome as reference material, writing military characters with Dai Sato, and picking episode titles. His opinions on mecha (likes the “old stuff”, a category he includes Eva in, and hates the new CGI robots) also is interesting; discussion of mecha in the late-nineties and early aughts gets more complex when considering both Eva and Satelight’s influences on the genre.
Via Anime Insider: Katsuhito Akiyama (April 2007)
Pumpkin Scissors director Katsuhito Akiyama offers his first impressions of the original comic.
Via Anime Insider: Visual Novel Adaptations (April 2007)
An article on US views of visual novel adaptations. It contains at least one factual inaccuracy, and should thus be read with extreme caution,* but is somewhat interesting as a perspective piece/not-so-veiled plug for Higurashi’s R1 release 2 months later.
*Kanon was released as a game in 1999, and not animated until 2002. To Heart was released on PC in 1997, and then on Playstation in 1999 (a week before the anime adaptation began airing). The article states both were broadcast in 1999.
Via Anime Insider: Caitlin Glass (April 2007)
A short interview with English VA Caitlin Glass.
Via Anime Insider: Illegal Doraemon Doujinshi (April 2007)
A short blurb describing a copyright snafu between the authors of an unlicensed Doraemon doujinshi (which sold over 15,000 copies) and Shogakukan.
Via Anime Insider: Japanese Theaters (April 2007)
A short article on the Japanese theater experience.
Via Anime Insider: Masahiko Minami (March 2007)
Bones Prez Masahiko Minami discusses elements of Ayakashi Ayashi.
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