We muddle through like children, making our way through paths of war and peace.
[Translation] Shoji Kawamori on AKB0048, Part 1
As a Christmas gift this year, I received from an anonymous follower on Twitter the first half of an interview with Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne) on one of my all-time favorite anime—AKB0048. This anonymous translator, who asked that I give credit for the translation to their anonymous account @chottojolly, gave me permission to post the translation here on my blog. Aside from a few bits of proofing and very minor editing for readability done by me, the translation credit belongs entirely to them. Thank you again, chottojolly! This was a wonderful present!
And, without further adieu, here’s Shoji Kawamori on AKB0048!
The Best Scenes of TV Anime 2016
I’ll be publishing my list of my favorite TV anime of the year after I finish up with a couple of final shows, but while we wait for that to happen, I thought I’d share some of the great individual scenes that stayed with me this year. Some of these are from shows that will inevitably be on my year-end list; some are not. Regardless, they all made an impression on me for various reasons, and I wanted to share them with you!
Aniwords – Making Anime New Year’s Resolutions
Well, it sure was a good run, wasn’t it?
I close out my time writing the weekly Aniwords column for Crunchyroll with one last plea for my readers to expand their anime watching habits to embrace things beyond their normal tastes. That this kind of point became a recurring theme during my run at Crunchyroll is an obvious thing in retrospect—given a large, far more mainstream-leaning audience than the circles I typically run in, what else was I to do? In the end, who knows how successful I was, but at least I had a lot of fun.
More thought to come on all of this in later days, likely, but for now…
[1] -macross frontier: love-
[2] -patlabor: anticipation-
[3] -regalia: warmth-
A feeling somewhat more demure than that of the tail end of a mecha’s thruster exhaust.
[5] -scorching ping pong girls: heartbeat-
“Go, my racing, scorching heart!”
[6] -martian successor nadesico: time-
Time traveling with anime! Or, perhaps it’s actually remembering love…
Aniwords – Competition Motivation in Scorching Ping Pong Girls & Yuri!!! on ICE
Anytime you throw two shows together in a post, you’re limiting your potential audience, but I rather think I’ve outdone myself with this one by comparing the megahit of the season with a sadly underwatched gem that have very different audience-targeting goals.
Anyways, this is kind of a combination post on two ideas I’ve had in my head about things I wanted to say about each of these shows, and somehow it all came together. Even if you’ve only watched one (or neither!) of these anime, I think there’s still some good fun to be had here, so I hope you’ll check it out! Also, please, for the love of good anime, at least give Scorching Ping Pong Girls a shot.
Mage in a Barrel 