Serial Experiments Lain Was Made by a Team With Almost No TV Anime Experience. The Character Designer Had Never Worked on an Anime Before.
Serial Experiments Lain Was Made by a Team With Almost No TV Anime Experience. The Character Designer Had Never Worked on an Anime Before. By Jimigrimm In 1998, a team of first-timers made an anime that a devoted audience has been discussing for 28 years. Director Ryutaro Nakamura had directed OVAs and films but had […]
Attack on Titan Was Rejected for Being Too Dark. The Teenager Who Created It Refused to Change It. It Crossed Into the Prestige-TV Mainstream That Anime Almost Never Reaches.
Attack on Titan Was Rejected for Being Too Dark. The Teenager Who Created It Refused to Change It. It Crossed Into the Prestige-TV Mainstream That Anime Almost Never Reaches. By Jimigrimm The walls were 50 meters tall. Humanity lived inside them. Nobody remembered why. And in the first episode, a giant skinless face appeared over […]
Gungrave Launched as a Game and an Anime at the Same Time. Only One of Them Became a Tragedy People Never Forgot.
Gungrave Launched as a Game and an Anime at the Same Time. Only One of Them Became a Tragedy People Never Forgot. By Jimigrimm In 2002, Gungrave arrived as a whole package at once. A PlayStation 2 game, an anime, and a manga, a brand-new property from Yasuhiro Nightow, the creator of Trigun, with mechanical […]
Cowboy Bebop’s Own Sponsor Tried to Kill It Halfway Through Production
Cowboy Bebop’s Own Sponsor Tried to Kill It Halfway Through Production By Jimigrimm Cowboy Bebop almost never made it to air. Not because it was bad. Because it was too good for the reason it got made in the first place. It Was a Toy Commercial First The show got funded as a toy commercial. […]
Neon Genesis Evangelion Was Made by a Man in the Middle of a Four-Year Depression. It Became One of the Most Influential Anime of the 1990s.
Neon Genesis Evangelion Was Made by a Man in the Middle of a Four-Year Depression. It Became One of the Most Influential Anime of the 1990s. By Jimigrimm Evangelion starts like a giant robot show. A teenage boy is recruited by his absent father to pilot a biomechanical weapon against massive creatures threatening humanity. The […]
Death Note Was Built Around a Single Question: Would You Root for the Villain?
Death Note Was Built Around a Single Question: Would You Root for the Villain? By Jimigrimm Light Yagami writes a name in a notebook. Someone dies. The show presents his reasoning so logically, so calmly, so convincingly, that his justification for murder starts to feel reasonable before most viewers realize what’s happened. He’s only killing […]
The Woman Who Created Inuyasha Also Created Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura. She’s Been Publishing Manga Since 1978 and She’s Still Going.
The Woman Who Created Inuyasha Also Created Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura. She’s Been Publishing Manga Since 1978 and She’s Still Going. By Jimigrimm Girl falls down a well. Girl ends up in feudal Japan. Girl meets a half-demon pinned to a tree by a sacred arrow. Girl frees the half-demon. A sacred jewel shatters […]
Gurren Lagann Starts With a Robot the Size of a Person. By the Final Episode, the Robot Is Bigger Than a Galaxy.
Gurren Lagann Starts With a Robot the Size of a Person. By the Final Episode, the Robot Is Bigger Than a Galaxy. By Jimigrimm Simon lives underground. He digs tunnels for a living in a village that has never seen the sky. One day he finds a small robot buried in the rock. It’s shaped […]
Paranoia Agent Was Built From Ideas That Didn’t Fit Into Satoshi Kon’s Films. It Was His Only TV Series.
Paranoia Agent Was Built From Ideas That Didn’t Fit Into Satoshi Kon’s Films. It Was His Only TV Series. By Jimigrimm Between 1997 and 2006, Satoshi Kon directed four films. Perfect Blue. Millennium Actress. Tokyo Godfathers. Paprika. Each one was a different genre. Three of the four explored what happens when the line between what’s […]
FLCL Is Six Episodes Long. The Director of Avatar: The Last Airbender Ordered His Staff to Watch All of Them.
FLCL Is Six Episodes Long. The Director of Avatar: The Last Airbender Ordered His Staff to Watch All of Them. By Jimigrimm An alien girl on a yellow Vespa runs over a twelve-year-old boy and hits him in the head with a bass guitar. A horn grows out of his forehead. A robot comes out […]