Miyazaki, Lineage, and Depth

Originally published January 2017

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Stray Notes

  • If you've read The Anime Machine already you'll have already been familiar with this stuff, so this is moreso for the folks who haven't

  • I am NOT making any particular claims on budgeting, production workflow, or anything of the sort during the discussion on the economics

  • while I use Kill la Kill juxtaposed to Utena (and Kuleshov would dictate I am making an analogous comparison), I wanted to emphasize the aesthetic nature over the economic nature, which is Lamarre's main argument anyways

  • I know it's kinda dumb to show the Stereoscopic Rotary camera when talking about the multiplanar camera, but there's not much quality footage of the multiplanar camera that I can get (affordably)

  • I am aware that Keiichi Tanaami's work isn't commercial, per se, but I think it suffices in fulfilling the general psychedelic visage we'd see in that timeframe

  • I couldn't find some major names like Kinrō no ari and Dorei no sensō, but I did find some of Seo Mitsuyo's work

  • I am well aware of the irony in me using footage from projects that came from early 2010s Anime Mirai despite Lamarre's comments on cases of people rejecting funding from the government on aesthetic and ideological grounds

  • these were the footages I could find, so it's primarily a practical reason, please do not assume I am making a definitive claim on either my behalf or Lamarre's

Texts

  • "Japanese Animated Commercials." Lost Planet Anime, Cartoon Research, edited January 7, 2015, http://bit.ly/2jSslYP.

Media

  • Akage no Anne

  • Akira

  • Alakazam the Great

  • Astro Boy

  • Bubblegum Crisis

  • Concrete Revolutio

  • Corporal Norakuro

  • Cowboy Bebop

  • ERASED

  • Evangelion

  • FLCL

  • The Flintstones

  • Flip Flappers

  • Future Boy Conan

  • Galaxy Express 999

  • Gosensozama Banbanzai

  • Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

  • Gunbuster

  • Hey There It's Yogi Bear!

  • Hourou Musuko

  • Howl's Moving Castle

  • Inari Konkon

  • The Jetsons

  • Kare Kano

  • Kiki's Delivery Service

  • Kill la Kill

  • Kokoro Connect

  • Laputa Castle in the Sky

  • My Neighbor Totoro

  • Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors

  • Nadia The Secret of Blue Water

  • Nagi no Asukara

  • Nausicaa Valley of the Wind

  • Now and Then, Here and There

  • Patlabor 2: The Movie

  • Porco Rosso

  • Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

  • Princess Mononoke

  • Mawaru Penguindrum

  • Revolutionary Girl Utena

  • Rose of Versailles

  • Rurouni Kenshin

  • Samurai Champloo

  • Scooby Doo! Where are You?

  • Serial Experiments Lain

  • Spirited Away

  • Steamboy

  • Tokyo Godfathers

  • The Wind Rises

  • Wolf Boy Ken

  • Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Tezuka NHK Documentary:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yULt_h3E_Ag

  • Commercials:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znfzrd2KVRk

  • Keiichi Tanaami:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHV9iQMy4gg

  • Flesicher Brothers Stereoscopic Rotary Process:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmUsSN0tdo8

  • Young Animator Projects:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96nKlhzYqY

  • Katsuhiro Otomo's Commercial for the Canon T70:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfdG892nThc

Audio

  • Avec Soin by Kevin MacLeod (Thank you based Incompetech)

  • Under Suspicion by Lee Rosevere

  • One Summers Day, Spirited Away OST

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