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[Review] My inner teenager is glad to see this show animated in however limited a capacity, but I‘m getting increasingly terrified the production is going to test the limits of my nostalgia.

😥 Rest in peace to an absolute MASTER of manga art. It's been such a special pleasure to work with Chiba's art on Ashita no Joe... to be able to examine his linework, tones, angles, & visual "mood" up close & in great detail. His art is truly beautiful & has a real depth. A real inspiration.

Go see Wildwood. Seriously, don’t wait—go see Wildwood. What a piece of art. The love for the manual craft, for story that doesn’t hold back, for filmmaking that is not here to answer to stockholders, it weaves all through it. Incredible stuff.

Reminder that advertising and editorial are completely siloed from each other at ANN. I'm as disappointed as anyone else to see this on the feed.

So uhh...yeah this is kind of a slap in the face to the folks on the editorial team at ANN to have to be associated with any AI shit, and I hope this ad gets taken down as quickly as possible because this ain't it

... On the urging of friends, I'm breaking that silence I respect ANN's editorial team highly. They're incredible writers and creators who work tirelessly to keep the anime world informed while adhering to the old ways This does not reflect on them This advertorial campaign, though, is a disgrace

[Review] Satisfy might not be a gatcha; that doesn't make Grid any more immune to the RNG of success rates.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

WILDWOOD: kind of insane that they made a film of this scale, almost like a cartoon fairytale version of a mid-20th century epic movie. too much story crammed in, I think, but I really dug it anyway. See it on the big screen!

why isn’t this playing on the premium screens in Boston, but fuckin street fighter still is

Really interesting that patriarchy and inherited trauma were such a big part of Part 6’s themes…only for Steel Ball Run to turn into the skid and explicitly be about these institutions, the different ways society expresses them, and how hard it can be to break out of them.

Before working on Digimon Adventure, Director Kakudou was in charge of the first Yu-Gi-OH! anime at Toei. There haven't been many interviews about that time and the transition from the Toei Anime and Duel Monsters, so this whole thing was a big surprise to me.

Acting as though supporting human rights is difficult and demanding it is asking for "purity" doesn't say what you think it says.

Also you can still absolutely get a real ass PC for like $1200-$1800 dollars. Go to Microcenter and the nicest nerd you’ve ever had a retail experience with will hook you up with an ugly but functional PowerSpec. Things are bad but they still sell computers at stores.

Sorry still thinking of $1,200-$1,800 dollar console just conceptually. Those are Real Computer numbers. You can just get a real computer for that kinda cash. The entire premise of the console is “this is a baby computer you don’t control but it’s standardized and affordable” but they can’t do that.

Incredible creature

This show made me feel things. This show *gave me permission* to feel things.

I will never fucking shut the fuck up about UBI. I truly believe most people aren't "lazy" and it would be easier to be fully productive with access to UBI full stop. When people aren't struggling heavily to survive, they can actually do things. Shocking a concept I know~

So this wasn't animated by Ufotable

In today’s edition of This Week in Anime, @vestenet.bsky.social and I dive into the career of a modern master: Sayo Yamamoto.

Images that go hard #WitchWatch

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

graphics beyond the ps4 were a mistake. none of this shit is sustainable anymore. every single Big Game costs one billion dollars to make and has to make 5 billion to be profitable and it also costs $100 nobody has and also needs to have an infinite postgame and also is forgotten in a week

Sure, Mass Effect is dead and buried at the hands of the stupidest and greediest company in the history of the industry, but let's all take solace in the fact that GenAI is actively poisoning every facet of the art that keeps our souls from withering on the vine.