#marie okada

[anamon-book]

魔法の森の女たち グリム・コレクション1 ヤーコブ・グリム、ヴィルヘルム・グリム 天沼春樹・訳 パロル舎 画＝岡田まりゑ、装幀＝鈴木康彦

[acchan-38]

岡田紗佳

Sayaka Okada

高宮まり

Mari Takamiya

[likesummerrainn]

TNA | 01.18.24

[asia-japan]

[animefeminist]

Anime Feminist’s Recommendation Backlog: Girls in Strange Worlds

Anime Feminist has been in operation since Fall 2016, which means eight years! We’ve written about hundreds of shows, and recommended plenty of them, and as the years go on it’s easy for some of the smaller titles to get lost in the shuffle. That’s why we decided to try out a “backlog” series. People are getting into anime for the first time or coming back to it from a long time away all the time, after all!

When putting together this list, we placed the cutoff at the end of 2020, just to really let comparatively older titles shine. Plus, it leaves some options on the table if decide to circle back to this topic in a few years! We also didn’t include any titles that are already on our pinned recommendation lists.

Have you seen any of these already, or plan to look them up now? Let us know in the comments, along with what you’d be interested in for future “flashback”-type articles–more stuff from the vaults? Staff picks by vintage year? We wanna know!

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[strawsoldier]

Sometimes I'm just in awe of Mari Okada's ability to just contiounsly write the most messy, cringe-worthy, heart-aching love stories time and time again for over a decade. Like she really went to the most prolific anime studio in current times and said "Imma direct a two-hour feature length film about a love triangle between a man, his hate/crush, and his time-traveling future daughter. Any objections?" and got what she wanted. What an icon. Her writing is so unapologetically unhinged that I always just brain-rot over all of her works, and just agonize for days about her characters and her creative process when it comes to everything her pen touches. I don't think any anime writer has this much of a grip on my brain as she does. Keep being weird, Mari Okada. I wouldn't have you any other way.

[notathrowawayname]

You know how sometimes you come across some media that demands either a rewatch, an in depth analytical essay or an hour long discussions with friends, all so you can unpack the depth and complexity of it because despite its flaws, you get the deep sense you just experienced something special?

On a totally unrelated note I watched the new Mari Okada movie

[minniiaa]

Maboroshi ticks all the boxes of a solid anime film. Great animation and a killer score breathe life into a world forever trapped in time. But it’s the story that keeps you guessing all the way through. It’s Intriguing, beautiful, heart wrenching, and thought provoking. It explores the fragility of life and the importance of living it to the fullest with those we love instead of resigning to a meaningless existence. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin, heartbreak is just as much a part of life as falling in love.

[reverendrocky]

Sayaka Okada 岡田紗佳 Mari Takamiya 高宮まり

[stuff-diary]

Maboroshi

Movies watched in 2024

Maboroshi (2023, Japan)

Director & Writer: Mari Okada

Mini-review:

I was really curious about this movie, since Mari Okada has written and/or directed some pretty amazing stories, and the promotional materials and trailers looked very interesting. However, I can't say I liked it as much as I expected. I did love how ambitious the film is in terms of concept and themes, and the animation definitely lives up to the Mappa standard. In particular, the final act includes some truly stunning visuals. Unfortunately, I just couldn't connect with these characters, and I didn't find any of them likeable or interesting. Therefore, this movie doesn't even come close to the emotional wallop delivered by the ending of Okada's previous directorial work, the beautiful Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. So yeah, Maboroshi is well-made, but rather disappointing.

[fendaira]

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

I feel happy for Mari Okada, who became the whipping girl for some fans who hated the non-canon episodes of Kuroshitsuji seasons 1 and 2.

The Oscars, a.k.a. the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has announced a list of invitations for several creatives to become a full-fledged member of the Academy outside of the US with non-English speaking works after years of criticism that they never extended invites if one was not a US citizen.

After her stint as the series composition writer for Kuroshitsuji I and II, she’s been doing a lot of projects and the latest was “maboroshi” with Junya Enoki as the main actor.

Somehow, I am elated for her bc I read that as a young adult she suffered depression and rejection from the school system and was able to find her calling by writing anime. But many didn’t like the way she wrote the Claude/Alois angle and the last episodes of the season 1. But look at her now. She’s been invited to become an Oscar full-time member. As in wow! What an achievement!

[likesummerrainn]

TNA | 01.25.24

[screenshothaven]

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004).

[petratherrock]

Watched this today 12/10 I loved it

I love how there's some scenes with the boys that are just vulgar cz boys cz then it explains why I had this sense that something's off--and then it's revealed that they've been in that timestuck for 10 years; they're sexually frustrated and have no outlet

The 'teens' can literally drive they just don't have drivers licenses. Try replacing their teens image with young adults instead

I get why Mutsumi refuses to call Itsumi her daughter; because she is in love with Masamune and because that's literally it, she's not really her daughter; but her maternal instinct could tell that she's hers. That's why she adores Itsumi anyway.

That's why she asked for Masamune's help to take care of her even though she refuses that that's their daughter. It's all very complicated.

Which is further confirmed by how Itsumi falls for Masamune; Masamune may call her his daughter because she is the daughter of his alternate self...but Itsumi doesn't feel that way. She's just a girl who sees a boy around her age. She knows what a dad looks like and it's not him.

I say it's probably a mixture of admiration and comfort; he was nice to her and he's a boy, she's only been around one boy and she's at the age where she's supposed to have crushes

So yes it's a little twisted and weird but c'mon why are you looking for logic or not weirdness when this story literally starts with wolf looking smoke erasing cracks in the sky? And kids who don't grow up ever?

Also yes it weirded me out at first when it turns out that Masamune's uncle is in love with his mum? But then? Who cares at this point lol. Maybe he's always had feelings for her even when his brother was still in the picture; maybe he was only ready to act on it when he knew he was going to disappear

And I adore the friend groups.

Who knew stories in a liminal space would wreck me like this

This was like Your Name if Your Name was a little bit more complicated and more angsty