Animétudesさんのイラストまとめ

The end of an amazing series on Yôichi Kotabe, an exemplary instance of what anime history research should be. Many thanks to @VGDensetsu
As a bonus, I'm sharing something that isn't included in his list of works: the "Fantastic Poesy" Wind, from The Motion Comic n°2 (03/1983) https://t.co/pgp6fNMEok

Browsing through my copy of the Yoshinori Kanada Great artbook, I remembered Yutaka Nakamura contributed a Tekkaman Blade illustration
In his commentary, he mentions having caught the "Kanada virus"
(I caught it myself long ago, I just had to catch the less fun kind as well...)

That's it for the funny faces, but all of Beebow's episodes look crazy, and #33 is even crazier than all those before

Finally, this mini-series/long footnote will conclude on Kanada day, ie July 21st, with something I've been planning to do for a while: a complete chronology of Birth's genesis & production from 1980 to 1984. It should be one of my most in-depth looks into Kanada's work yet

The November 1982 issue of Animage opens with a column titled "Amateur anime Battle Royale", w/ Oshii as referee
It mentions Daicon III (you even get Oshii's take on it), but what impresses me the most is this Nausicaä fan animation made by a group of Hokkaido highschoolers?

Can't be a real kids' show if you don't have a murderous pink teddy bear episode
Sorry, I don't make the rules

Pretty important since both Yamashita and Hirotoshi Sano worked on Venus Wars, and you can see how their effects changed from then on in Patlabor TV & 0083, in a way that combines extremely dense round smoke & spiky shapes that recall their origins as Kanada-style artists

#イデオンの日

Don't you just hate it when those damn leftists put their politics into anime 😤😤

Vガンダム42話では、湖川さんやビーボォーの作風に近い絵もありますね。クレジットされていない人がいるのかな？🤔
(クレジットによると、これはスタジオ・ダブの回です)