Mewさんのイラストまとめ

I wondered what was Dezaki's first piece to feel genuinely "Dezakian", and this might be the one. His cinematic grammar isn't fully mature yet - no triple takes, postcard harmonies or split screens - but he already masters composition, coloring, editing and, most of all, *drama*

#22, the Rainbow Star Cluster battle, is by far the finest episode of the series. One of the few times we genuinely feel the high stakes, as the Yamato is brutally damaged and brought to brink of destruction. Fantastic animation by Tiger Pro, feat. Tomonaga on mecha and FX

#2 has animation by Kazuhide Tomonaga and Yoshinori Kanada, and Tomonaga's realist WWII flashback is one of the finest pieces of animation of the decade

it's just a story of two girls, set entirely within the halls of a school - in the smallest of scales - and yet it's grandiose in its resolute attention to the finest motions of the body, in its commitment to make every action and every sound so heavy and full of meaning

Anne of Green Gables: "I don't wish to be anyone except myself. Not even if there're diamonds for consolation. I'm happy with just my pearl necklace and to be the Anne of Green Gables."

The best AD is unsurprisingly the incomparable Akira Matsushima (Jec. E), but Takayuki Goto (IG), Shinobu Tagashira (Deen/Mu) and Masaaki Kawanami (Deen) all look great!
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While the series is nominally produced by Nippon Animation, afaik no ep was actually animated by Nippon: the entire show is outsourced to other studios such as Deen, IG, Artland, Jec.E, Anime R, Mu etc. It also has no chief AD, so designs and artstyles differ radically throughout

I also finished watching Miyazaki's massively popular post-apocalyptic adventure series, Future Boy Conan! You can see the groundwork for his films here, w/similar themes and equally effective storytelling going from laid-back idyllic contemplation to high-stakes action setpieces

In completely denying the illusion of freedom for the protagonist and foregoing all idealism in favor of a naked militarist power struggle, this is definitely one of the most nihilistic Oshii(-written) films

Jin-Roh: Hiroyuki Okiura's uncanny ultrarealism is perfect for this nihilistic story about a man who has long since cast off his humanity. The downtrodden period Tokyo is a superb setting. Rather straightforward for an Oshii film, that is, still more to unpack than most movies