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Anime's Media Mix

Four Plateaus Discord

Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:27 Steinberg's Intro

04:13 What is a Media Mix?

06:49 Where did it come from?

08:55 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

12:40 MPD Psycho

15:55 Intermission

19:12 Back to MPD Psycho

21:08 Record of Lodoss War

22:41 Conclusion

Video

  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

  • Endless Eight

  • Persona 4 Golden: The Animation

  • Persona 4: The Animation

  • Death Note

  • Pokemon: The First Movie

  • Perfect Blue

  • Animegataris

  • Astro Boy

  • Char’s Counterattack

  • Patlabor 2

  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

  • Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventure

  • Voices of a Distant Star

  • Iriya no Sora, UFO No Natsu

  • My Girlfriend, The Ultimate Weapon

  • Mazinger Z

  • MPD Psycho

Music by Skrullz

  • Inconclusive_Infants

  • pizza-hoodly-redux

Sources

  • No sources, this is an interview with Marc Steinberg.

Comments

I don’t have much to really say about this video, other than the fact that it really did a number on my computer. However, that’s mainly my fault - I shouldn’t have made it all on one Adobe After Effects file, it ended up being around 120 MB. That’s big, like, REALLY big, at least by random 20-minute anituber standards.

The idea of a media mix has been a really valuable thing I’ve taken for granted. I’m a huge sucker for narratives about narratives, and so a lot of the shows I love have largely been a result of me finding something interesting about it that makes me really appreciate it. I hardly find shows - on their own grounds as shows - really click with me. Media mixes, in this sense, are quite valuable.

However, just because I know about it doesn’t necessarily mean everyone else does, and I think at least keeping in mind what these are can be especially valuable things to remember. I know Callum (Canipa) has talked about media mixes, so I guess this can be seen as a complementary piece to some of the comments he’s made.

It’s also more of an exploration made possible thanks to Marc’s kindness. I’ve been wanting to work with him for a long while, and while COVID-19 has really messed up the workflow of some things, I’m just glad we were able to get this figured out. The video is a complement to another work with regards to platforms. Given how much of a syosetu hound I am, it’s not surprise that Marc’s research is quite valuable to me.