Peter Chung, creator of Aeon Flux and character designer for the Reign the Conqueror anime, talks about working with Madhouse and dealing with language barriers.
Via Anime Insider: Peter Chung on Reign the Conqueror (April 2003)
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Via Anime Insider: Spirited Away’s Oscar Campaign (April 2003)
A very interesting article commenting on the lack of publicity Spirited Away got in the states, containing quotes from industry experts on why the release was limited and Disney’s underwhelming campaign for the Oscar Spirited Away eventually won.
Via Anime Insider: Shinichiro Watanabe, Toshihiro Kawamoto, and Yoko Kanno (Winter 2003)
An interview with Cowboy Bebop’s director/character designer/composer team. Contains a couple nuggets of information (Yoko Kanno was composing ost pieces a year before production started, Ein was modeled after Yoko Kanno, the “new genre unto itself” eyecatch quote was inserted into the show without Watanabe’s permission).
Via Anime Insider: Ken Akamatsu (Winter 2003)
Ken Akamatsu talks about his favorite parts of the Love Hina manga and his limited role in the anime adaptation. His answer as to why he wasn’t able to get involved with the adaptation (that weekly manga made him too busy) is an interesting contrast with DN Angel’s Yukiru Sugisaki, who published monthly and was heavily involved in the adaptation.
Via Anime Insider: Dubbing Excel Saga (Fall 2002)
A short piece on the process of dubbing anime. There’s lots of informational material on this available in English already (VA con panels are ubiquitous fixtures of the scene, and get on youtube now and again), but it does give an idea of the timescales involved in working on such a project – about 12 hours of voice acting work for a main character, per episode.
Via Anime Insider: John Lasseter on Spirited Away (Fall 2002)
This feature article on Spirited Away includes a bit with Pixar bigwig John Lasseter talking about his role in localizing Spirited Away.
Via Anime Insider: Masamune Shirow (Fall 2002)
Prior to the release of the Ghost in the Shell 2 manga, Masamune Shirow talks about some plot details, the ten year gap between 1 and 2, and liking Wallace and Gromit.
Via Anime Insider: Bandai Channel (Summer 2002)
This article is a short one talking about the launch of the Bandai Channel, one of the earlier online streaming services for anime, with a couple of points made on logistics.
Via Anime Insider: Kia Asamiya (Summer 2002)
Anime Insider/Invasion (had different titles at different points during its run) was a magazine published by Wizards of the Coast during the big boom in the US, from about 2001 to 2009. I recently acquired close to the entire ~60-issue run at a swap meet. While the majority of the material is either thinly veiled promotion or puerile stuff reminding me why I’ve withdrawn somewhat from the US community, there’s typically at least one pure article/interview per issue. I’ll be posting them here as I see fit, including ads that come in pages in between the articles (mainly as a way of verifying that I’m not accidentally skipping pages).
This article interviews Kia Asamiya, the author of Steam Detectives and Silent Mobius, who had a particularly interesting career that took her to the US and saw her working on the Star Wars Episode 1 manga.
Via Newtype USA: Various Novelists Interviewed (Various Issues, 2003-2004)
I wasn’t able to find anything particularly interesting about these articles, but I did scan them, so I figured I’d just post them in case they were something anyone else cared about. Two of the names on this list are significantly more famous than the others in Western circles; Mardock Scramble’s Ubukata and Haruhi Suzumiya’s Tanigawa.
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