At Anime Expo this past weekend the North American based localisation studio and book publisher YenPress held a panel and announced a selection of new books that will be coming to readers in the near future. A rundown of these announcements, of which were made on the companies social media profiles, can be found below: Art …
OP: “Plan A (プランA)” by DISH// It’s not often that I’m moved simply by how good the first episode of an adaption is. So the fact that I was almost in tears over Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi probably deserves some explanation. Yes, I’m a big fan of the manga, and that’s part of it. I don’t …
OP: “Sweet Memory” (スイートメモリー) by Eve Summer kicks into high gear this weekend, with a number of the big titles on my list breaking ground. Shoushimin Series certainly falls into that category, and the main reason for that is simple – Yonezawa Honobu. He’s the novelist of the source material, and the creator of Hyouka, …
The Elusive Samurai Short Synopsis: The would-be inheritor of the Kamakura shogunate flees his birthplace after his family is betrayed by a powerful warrior. Lenlo: Competing with Monogatari, Elusive Samurai is probably the best animated show of the season. It doesn’t quite have the same level of direction and shot composition that Monogatari does, it …
Fitting way to end the day. Impressions: By about minute two of this show, I was certain that unless somebody got run over or stabbed out of nowhere, I would be very, very bored. No, I still haven’t forgotten the ending to the first episode of Shigofumi, but that was a lot more poignant …
Okay, there’s only actually one. Impressions: It’s unusual to actually see production issues in this day and age. Most studios just… don’t animate things now. But if any animation studio will be at the forefront of that, you can count on CloverWorks. There’s both a bunch of framerate problems where the cel work on the …
