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Veteran animator Terumi Nishii has taken to social media to express her frustration with what she perceives as unreasonable demands for political correctness in anime production.
Nishii Terumi, has worked as an animation director on various anime such as Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures, and Death Note, among others.
In a series of tweets, Terumi recounted an incident, where an overseas client had requested that black characters in her work be given defined noses to distinguish them properly from other characters, who typically lack detailed nostrils.
This request, she argued, would disrupt the visual balance of the characters and create an inconsistent level of realism within the same series.
“None of the other characters even had nostrils, so if just the black characters had a different level of realism, it would look unbalanced. That kind of thing is just… yeah. In the end, it turned into a conversation...
Nishii Terumi, has worked as an animation director on various anime such as Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures, and Death Note, among others.
In a series of tweets, Terumi recounted an incident, where an overseas client had requested that black characters in her work be given defined noses to distinguish them properly from other characters, who typically lack detailed nostrils.
This request, she argued, would disrupt the visual balance of the characters and create an inconsistent level of realism within the same series.
“None of the other characters even had nostrils, so if just the black characters had a different level of realism, it would look unbalanced. That kind of thing is just… yeah. In the end, it turned into a conversation...
- 6/14/2024
- by Ami Nazru
- AnimeHunch
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Akira Kanai, renowned manga editor known for his work on Vinland Saga, Ajin: Demi-Human, and Planetes, has taken a firm stance against letting political correctness influence his editorial decisions.
This was revealed during his interview with Manga Passion, where he was asked about his approach to ensuring the international success of manga.
“I don’t allow myself to be influenced by so-called political correctness abroad and design the works accordingly,” Kanai declared.
The editor-in-chief elaborated on his approach, stating that he adheres to various content codes related to violence, nudity, and religious depictions. However, these considerations are based on general content standards rather than specific international sensibilities.
According to him, interesting stories will “usually be understood, regardless of whether you come from Africa, Chile, or Greenland.”
Kanai asserted that the fundamental human experiences and emotions are universally relatable. And so, stopping a work just because it deals with a problem...
This was revealed during his interview with Manga Passion, where he was asked about his approach to ensuring the international success of manga.
“I don’t allow myself to be influenced by so-called political correctness abroad and design the works accordingly,” Kanai declared.
The editor-in-chief elaborated on his approach, stating that he adheres to various content codes related to violence, nudity, and religious depictions. However, these considerations are based on general content standards rather than specific international sensibilities.
According to him, interesting stories will “usually be understood, regardless of whether you come from Africa, Chile, or Greenland.”
Kanai asserted that the fundamental human experiences and emotions are universally relatable. And so, stopping a work just because it deals with a problem...
- 6/11/2024
- by A.R. Madillo
- AnimeHunch
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Kagurabachi, which started serializing in Weekly Shonen Jump in the latter half of 2023, has gained quite the popularity among fans due to its action packed storyline and the revenge filled theme at its center.
In an interview put out on Manga Plus, the manga’s editor Takuro Imamura revealed the inspirations that led author Takeru Hokazono to craft such a story.
Talking about the revenge aspect, Imamura said that Hokazono always aspired to “make a revenge story” and get serialized in Jump. The one shots that he had drawn before also had similar themes.
Simply put, the revenge genre was Hokazono’s favorite, thanks to his love for Western movies, especially those directed by Quentin Tarantino.
These movies, along with the recent John Wick instalments served as an inspiration for the author to craft the unique setting in Kagurabachi manga.
“I think it’s simply his favorite genre. Hokazono likes Western movies,...
In an interview put out on Manga Plus, the manga’s editor Takuro Imamura revealed the inspirations that led author Takeru Hokazono to craft such a story.
Talking about the revenge aspect, Imamura said that Hokazono always aspired to “make a revenge story” and get serialized in Jump. The one shots that he had drawn before also had similar themes.
Simply put, the revenge genre was Hokazono’s favorite, thanks to his love for Western movies, especially those directed by Quentin Tarantino.
These movies, along with the recent John Wick instalments served as an inspiration for the author to craft the unique setting in Kagurabachi manga.
“I think it’s simply his favorite genre. Hokazono likes Western movies,...
- 5/6/2024
- by A.R. Madillo
- AnimeHunch
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Come every October, audiences can be guaranteed that programming will shift over to horror-centric content to fit with Halloween. With the litany of streaming services that now exist, it’s gone from being difficult to fill 31 days of content to it being a serious struggle to fit everything in. There’s horror programming everywhere at the moment and this is also true when it comes to anime.
Netflix has built up an increasingly impressive library of anime content that includes some moody horror selections that are perfect for the season (or anytime really). However, with so many titles out there it’s not always easy to know what’s worthwhile, especially when the names of some series don’t do much to help on the matter. Here’s a helpful selection of some of Netflix’s best and most frightening anime titles so you don’t have to dig through the herd.
Netflix has built up an increasingly impressive library of anime content that includes some moody horror selections that are perfect for the season (or anytime really). However, with so many titles out there it’s not always easy to know what’s worthwhile, especially when the names of some series don’t do much to help on the matter. Here’s a helpful selection of some of Netflix’s best and most frightening anime titles so you don’t have to dig through the herd.
- 10/16/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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Misa from “Death Note,” Saitama from “One-Punch Man,” and Code:002 from “Darling in the Franxx” walk into a convention center. It’s the set-up to what could be a pretty good joke. Like the rabbi, priest, and monk, these are religious figures in their own right—anime heroes, favorite deities of a subcultural movement known as cosplay.
By many metrics—not simply the more-than 100,000 attendees to Anime Expo in Downtown Los Angeles this month—cosplay, and its guiding form of media, anime, have been undergoing a resurgence in the past few years. Consumed in the 1990s and early 2000s mainly by Japanese teens, and their worldwide counterparts known colloquially as weebs, anime is now a significant programming genre for streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, not to mention the anime-only services Crunchyroll, Viewster, and Funimation.
Crunchyroll, which has been around since 2006, and is a subsidiary of Warner Bros., announced...
By many metrics—not simply the more-than 100,000 attendees to Anime Expo in Downtown Los Angeles this month—cosplay, and its guiding form of media, anime, have been undergoing a resurgence in the past few years. Consumed in the 1990s and early 2000s mainly by Japanese teens, and their worldwide counterparts known colloquially as weebs, anime is now a significant programming genre for streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, not to mention the anime-only services Crunchyroll, Viewster, and Funimation.
Crunchyroll, which has been around since 2006, and is a subsidiary of Warner Bros., announced...
- 7/30/2019
- by Maxwell Williams
- Variety Film + TV
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Top brass unveil full line-up.
The 22nd edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will close with the world premiere of Donnie Yen martial arts film Big Brother and the Canadian premiere of Nicolas Cage action thriller Mandy.
On Thursday (June 28) the festival released its complete line-up of more than 125 features and 220 shorts, including more than 100 premieres. It runs from July 12-August 1.
Five of the features on the roster originated through Fantasia’s film production market, Frontieres. These are Chained For Life, The Dark, Knuckleball, The Night Eats The World, and The Ranger.
Other Canadian premieres include Demian Rugna’s Terrified,...
The 22nd edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will close with the world premiere of Donnie Yen martial arts film Big Brother and the Canadian premiere of Nicolas Cage action thriller Mandy.
On Thursday (June 28) the festival released its complete line-up of more than 125 features and 220 shorts, including more than 100 premieres. It runs from July 12-August 1.
Five of the features on the roster originated through Fantasia’s film production market, Frontieres. These are Chained For Life, The Dark, Knuckleball, The Night Eats The World, and The Ranger.
Other Canadian premieres include Demian Rugna’s Terrified,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
Anyone keen to point the finger (often fairly) at Hollywood for a lack of creativity and a dearth of new ideas in its global economics-driven industry should take a seat for director Katsuyuki Motohiro’s adaptation of Ajin: Demi-Human. Based on Gamon Sakurai’s manga series and following an animated film trilogy as well as an animated television series, Ajin gets the live action film treatment because it’s a medium that hasn’t been exploited yet. The film also comes from a new tradition of manga-based monster movies wherein humanity is about to be consumed by some kind of creature or has already...
- 1/2/2018
- by Elizabeth Kerr
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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