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So I started watching Gunbuster the other day and it was fun, energetic and exciting. It’s main character Noriko Takaya symbolizes these elements incredibly with her fun and bubbly personality which is balanced out with her anxiety surrounding her efficiency as a pilot. They establish her goals early and her relation to Yuzo Takaya, her father. She wants to be a space pilot just like him and joins the Okinawa High School for Girls where they train young girls in piloting mechs. In the beginning while she has physical prowess she is very bad at piloting mechs. Even so she is chosen for the Gunbuster project by Koichiro Oota which further hightens her anxiety as she freaks out and goes to him imploring him to take her out of the program. He then in the episode points out the hard work Amano puts into her piloting of mechs which inspires her to work harder. I loved the fact that while the character did have issues surrounding her internal feelings of legitimacy it never effected her so ...

Kurogane is a fun manga, but it feels to familiar for me to consider it anything other then an abstract art book with a story that drags on in the middle of volume 1. While scrolling through the news feed on AnimeNewsNetwork I came across a peculiar article about a manga I've never heard of before, titled Kuro Gane. It talks about the sequel manga Kuro-Gane Kai going on a 3 month hiatus. It's cover was interesting and alluring seemingly done in oil paint, the character on the front a samurai with peering eyes. Apparently it was released by Del Rey Manga which is a publishing company that was the predecessor Kodansha that went out of business in 2010. It's Penned by artist Kei TOUME, who I haven't heard of until recently, but found out he worked on another manga title I liked when I was 13 called Lement of the Lamb. A series I all but forgot how much I enjoyed, and if there is one thing I have to thank the news article for is helping me find the title to a format...

If there is one thing anyone can recognize about a Hayao Miyazaki work is that he is incredible at mapping a setting. While I had an understanding of this looking at a number of his concept art books I have to give credit to Digibro for making an outstanding video on How Miyazaki Maps a Setting . Hayao Miyazaki always makes sure that each and every environment where the characters are located has a clear sense of scale, direction, design and functionality. For example in Mononoke Home (Princess Mononoke), by having our main character Ashitaka travel through the scene from the outside where they host the walls to when we go inside and we see the shops, spend time in the men’s quarters where they eat and later we see him in the women’s area where they work the bellows. Miyazaki has a knack for keeping the character walking in the same direction as a means to guide the audience through a location as we see in Spirited away with Chihiro and Haku running through the pig stys and whine c...

Returning to Fix The Ninja World  As a kid I was a huge fan of the Naruto anime and Manga. In the early 2000s I remember watching illegal downloads of it at my brother's friend's house and growing up it always enraptured me with it's aesthetic and approach to storytelling. While it wasn't my first exposure to anime, Princess Mononoke being the first thing of any relation to anime I have seen at the time, It definitely had the most impact and really sparked my interest in Shinobi and Ninja lore. Around 2007 or 2008 my parents banned me from watching anime and my love for the series faded into obscurity, it becoming a slight fever dream. Years later in 2010 I would pick the series back up again starting out with the manga and getting into the anime. I was and still am a huge fan of Kishimoto's artwork in the early part of Naruto and some of his writing is impressive, but the thing is that his storytelling capability and artistic prowess slowly descends over t...

I'm your host Okabe The Night-Walker extraordinaire and anime wizard! Been watching anime since 2009 and finally making a move to start blogging about it, should be fun right!? The truth is that I'm a newbie wet behind my ears entering a extremely saturated market of anime You-tubers, Bloggers and critics alike so it's pretty intimidating. What do I have to offer? A fun personality and a unique perspective on anime that I'll be developing over the course of my career. I also draw manga often as well so look out for that as well. Hope you guys have fun! Check out my tumblr here:  https://ouranimeyeah.tumblr.com/ I'll be posting original content on here and reposting interesting stuff on here as well