100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day One Hundred – What is anime? 19 Sep 20181 Jan 2019 Back in June I started this challenge to get myself writing again and to keep me watching and thinking about anime in the build up to Anime Weekend Atlanta. I…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Nine – Shinichirō Watanabe 18 Sep 201818 Sep 2018 Shinichirō Watanabe Birthday: May 24, 1965 Notable Works: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy I've already spent six days and 5,306 words on Shinichirō Watanabe. He is undoubtedly one of my favorite…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Eight – Cowboy Bebop 17 Sep 2018 I think it's time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. OK. Three. Two. One. Let's jam! Title: Cowboy Bebop Episodes: 26 Released: 1998 Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Studio:…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Seven – Terror in Resonance 16 Sep 201816 Sep 2018 Title: Terror in Resonance Episodes: 11 Released: 2014 Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Studio: MAPPA I didn't really know Terror in Resonance existed until June or July of this year. When it debuted on…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Six – Space Dandy 15 Sep 2018 Title: Space Dandy Episodes: 26 Released: 2014 Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Studio: Bones When I planned this part of the challenge, I intended to talk about all of Watanabe's directorial outings, but…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Five – Kids on the Slope 14 Sep 2018 Title: Kids on the Slope Episodes: 12 Released: 2012 Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Studio: MAPPA and Tezuka Productions Based on a manga by Yuki Kodama, Kids on the Slope is the first production…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Four – Samurai Champloo 13 Sep 2018 Title: Samurai Champloo Episodes: 26 Released: 2004 Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Studio: Manglobe We're skipping Cowboy Bebop for now. I'll explain why later. Samurai Champloo is Watanabe's hip hop infused second work as a…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Three – Macross Plus 12 Sep 2018 Title: Macross Plus Episodes: 4 Released: 1994 Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Studio: Studio Nue We begin our discussion of Shinichirō Watanabe with a bit of an exception to the rule this part…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety Two – Hayao Miyazaki 11 Sep 201810 Sep 2018 Hayao Miyazaki Birthday: January 5, 1941 Notable Works: My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle What is there left to say about Hayao Miyazaki? It's bad form…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Ninety One – The Wind Rises 10 Sep 20189 Sep 2018 Title: The Wind Rises Run time: 126 minutes Released: 2013 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Studio: Studio Ghibli The Wind Rises is a highly fictionalized biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the engineer behind the…