100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Seventy – Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine 20 Aug 2018 We've made it to the home stretch. Just a month left in this challenge, and it's time for a slight shift in direction that I've been planning for awhile. We're…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Nine – An Anime Canon 19 Aug 201819 Aug 2018 If you're coming to this post from the world of fandom, you're already familiar with the term canon. In the world of decade-spanning multimedia franchises, canon refers to the interconnected…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Eight – Liminal Spaces and Familiar Faces 18 Aug 201819 Aug 2018 Conventions started this whole mess for me. I threatened to wax poetic about conventions the other day when I wrote about North America's five biggest cons. I'm coming through on…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Seven – The House that Made Manga 17 Aug 2018 Typing in 3-16-6 Minami-Nagasaki in Google Map s will not, as it turns out, provide much in the way of results. The address, mysterious though it may be, now belongs…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Six – Last Call for Resources 16 Aug 2018 Some nights I have more resources open than I have words written. Tonight is one of those nights. I haven't been able to settle on a topic that I felt…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Five – Key Frames #10 15 Aug 20181 Jan 2019 I like thinking about conventions. I like talking about conventions. I have written short stories with conventions as the backdrop. I think there is something special about a group of…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Four – Key Frames #9 14 Aug 2018 Tonight's post was originally going to feature more prominent manga magazines, but after some thought and research we're going to jump back on the anime studio topic. I'm going to…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Three – Key Frames #8 13 Aug 2018 I've spent quite a few words on animators and studios, but I haven't spent a lot of time talking about distributors. Distributors are, of course, a major piece of the…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty Two – Key Frames #7 12 Aug 2018 We've already talked about five of the major studios in a previous Key Frames post. Toei, Mushi, TMS, Tatsunoko and Gainax have central places in the family tree that ties…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Sixty One – Bleach 11 Aug 201812 Aug 2018 When Tite Kubo discovered Saint Seiya in elementary school, he knew he wanted to create manga when he grew up. And it didn't take him long to achieve that goal.…