#toei animation mononoke

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I fuckinh cant with his design aæeeuuughhhhghhghgghhh *combusts*

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Best show ever, in terms of visuals😤

Anime: Mononoke

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It's 5:40am, I'm currently so tired that I've gone full circle and now have energy again ✌🏾soooo...

Today's gender is voiced by Colleen Clinkenbeard and animated by Toei Animation

(^^ If you actually know the show in this gif I am platonically in love with you)

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Mononoke: A Thought Provoking Series

Mononoke TV Anime Review: A Thought-Provoking Series #mononoke #anime #モノノ怪 #horror #Television

With the new movie getting ready to debut in Japan, the newest review will be focusing on the Television Anime, Mononoke. Also, for an in-depth look at this series, be sure to check out Crunchyroll’s newest feature from Adam Wescott. The series takes place between the Edo period and the Meiji period, an era that had a four-class system: a samurai was considered to be the highest class, and…

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Let's conclude our Cutie Honey 50th anniversary trivia with the final episode: “A Poison Flower Falls to Hell.”

Screenwriter: Masaki Tsuji

Art Director: Urata Mataharu

Animation Director: Satoshi Jingu

Director: Osamu Kasai

With the exception of Junpei’s girlfriend Mami and the nameless Panther Claw subordinates, all of the (living) characters in the series appear for the final episode.

The suspenseful drumming that plays before Eagle Panther attacks the truck was lifted from Go Misawa’s soundtrack for Devilman.

Honey has always lovingly addressed her father as “papa”, but in this episode she refers to him as the more formal otousama or “father.” This was probably done to demonstrate to the audience how much she has grown from her battle with Panther Claw.

In the original manga, Sister Jill’s headquarters was called maboroshi jyou or “Castle of Illusion.” The name was probably changed to avoid confusion with Cutter Claw’s “Castle of Illusion” from episode 10. 

Jill’s headquarters in the manga looks like a traditional European style castle, while the anime version evokes more of a haunted house. 

The dreamlike landscape Honey falls into is modeled after the surrealist works of Salvador Dali, specifically one of his most famous works, The Persistence of Memory, which depicts melting pocket watches. The floating lips could possibly be based on Man Ray’s Observatory Time: The Lovers, a painting featuring a giant pair of lush red lips in the sky.

The second half of the episode features a few references to one of Toei Animation’s earlier films, The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon.

Released in 1963, the film tells the story of Susanoo, the youngest son of the gods who created the Earth, and his journey in finding his mother. The stylized film featured the talents of animation veterans such as Yasuo Otsuka, Yoichi Kotabe, Isao Takahata, and Kimio Yabuki. 

References to The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon: 

The human shaped fire that attacks Honey is animated almost exactly like the Fire God that Susanoo faces. 

The phantom serpents are a dead-ringer for the eight-headed dragon. The only difference is the coloring. In the film their colors are similar to Maleficent's dragon form from Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. It’s worth mentioning in the original storyboard the illusions were meant to look like generic snakes.

After the Panther Chateau crumbles, the gloomy skies clear up and Honey finds herself in a flowerbed under a blue sky. This is similar to the end of the film, in which the defeated dragon turns into a field of flowers and the dark skies become bright and sunny.

The bone-chilling organ music that plays during Honey and Jill’s confrontation is Fugue in D Major, BWV 580 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The rendition featured in this episode was performed by French organist Marie-Claire Alain.

While the animation director for the finale is Satoshi Jingu of Anime Room, the key animation for the second half of the episode was handled primarily by Yoshinori Kanada. While he was relatively unknown at the time, he would go on to be a very influential figure in the animation world, working on titles such as Dino Mech Gaiking, Birth, Princess Mononoke and others. Kanada’s style is particularly noticeable during the “Honey Special” sequence and Honey's reunion with the Hayami family.

Although this is the only instance where Kanada is listed in the credits, Kazuhiro Ochi has confirmed he did in fact work on the other episodes that were animated by Anime Room (6, 13, 24, and 25).

Supposedly, the final episode was originally going to be handled by Shingo Araki and Hiroshi Shitara, but both men were too busy working on Majokko Megu-chan.

Despite getting pretty good ratings, Cutie Honey was canceled due to concerns over salacious content. According to Go Nagai’s autobiographical manga, Gekiman! Cutie Honey Hen, nearly everyone involved was blindsided by the cancellation. Toshio Katsuta in particular was quite surprised, since Honey made better ratings than its predecessor, Microid S. Katsuta was actually quite confident Honey would last three or four seasons.

Because of the series' abrupt cancellation, Katsuta and Nagai both agreed to have Honey defeat Jill at the end of the series, while leaving Panther Zora’s fate being left to the interpretation of the fans.

In an interview printed in the 1981 Cutey Honey Roman Album, Go Nagai talks a little bit about what Honey and Zora were up to after the finale. He says Zora began harvesting animals from the Amazon and transforming them into androids, probably in preparation for a battle against Honey. He also says Honey is destined to only fight Panther Claw, so she'd probably ignore any unrelated criminal activity. I guess we can assume Honey got a little downtime after her victory against Sister Jill?

And that's all our trivia for Cutie Honey! I hope you enjoyed all the interesting tidbits I've collected over the years. Maybe someday I'll do this for the other series...

Special Thanks:

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Ayumi Shinozaki

Josh M.

Charlie from Skaro Hunting Society

Phix Cabral

Jonathan Castleman

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One of Japan’s most distinctive filmmakers, Hayao Miyazaki has earned acclaim and recognition for his anime features since his debut in 1979 with The Castle of Cagliostro.

Born in Tokyo City in the Empire of Japan, Miyazaki expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age, and he joined Toei Animation in 1963. During his early years at Toei Animation he worked as an in-between artist and later collaborated with director Isao Takahata.

In 1985 he co-founded Studio Ghibli, which has since become a major name in the worlds of animation and international filmmaking. His subsequent films included Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008) and The Wind Rises (2013). His 2001 feature, Spirited Away, won an Academy Award for Animated Feature. In 2014, he was chosen to receive an Honorary Award at the Academy’s Governors Awards.

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▶️ Il primo trailer per il film di MONONOKE è qui e nonostante alcune sostituzioni all'interno dello staff, il mondo del Venditore di Medicine è affascinante come sempre! Il debutto è atteso per l'estate 2024.

La pellicola è diretta ancora una volta da Kenji Nakamura (Gatchaman Crowds, Kuuchuu Buranko, Tsuritama), già regista dell’originale serie tv di 12 episodi prodotta nel 2007 presso TOEI ANIMATION, che potete ancora trovare in streaming su VVVVID.

Il peculiare mistery sovrannaturale nasce come spinoff della precedente serie antologica dal titolo AYAKASHI: JAPANESE CLASSIC HORROR e ha come protagonista un enigmatico esorcista.

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Hi....If you don't mind, can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....

These questions always have me like... do I know 10 of anything?

The order doesn't indicate anything, I will number them to keep track.

Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell- I could write that I love it because it has Coyote and end there because that'd be enough. But I also like so many of the characters Annie, Kat, Shadow and Robot, and Parley and Smit and like so so many of the characters. And most of all I love the world building and the story. God how amazingly it is set up.

Digger by Ursula Vernon- The black and white art style is stunning. The story and world building are just so so amazing. My inner anthropology enthusiast connects very deeply with this anthropology coded comic. And also it has Grim Eyes, and Ed and Shadow Child.

Blame! by Nihei Tsutomu - This is still the most beautiful comic I've seen. Idk what about it resonates with me so much but I regularly just like to open volumes at random and look at it. The concept is good too, don't get me wrong. And it's like a 10 vol manga that kinda has like 2 characters that matter and most pages don't have any dialogue or writing at all...

Every single piece of Kon Satoshi's - literally everything that man made is amazing. It's beautiful for one. But also everything he made was about perception of reality. About how reality is formed from the subjective human mind. How it is formed from imperfect memory and lack of full knowledge because it's impossible to have all the information. etc. He hasn't made much, his life was cut far too short. You can watch everything in a week and you should.

The Pillow Book by Sei Shounagon - This book is such a vibe. Shounagon can be subtle yet savage. It's a very easy read too, it's very relaxing. And you can just open it at random and read a bit and just enjoy its beauty.

Hunter x Hunter by Togashi Yoshihiro - It traumatised me, I haven't recovered since. It has permanently merged with my consciousness. It includes Gon and Killua and many other characters I love and very neat writing and a bs power system that's absolutely amazing.

Jujutsu Kaisen by Akutami Gege - It traumatised me, I haven't recovered since. It has permanently merged with my consciousness. It includes Yuuji and Kenjaku and some very neat writing and some frustrating writing and a bs power system that's absolutely amazing.

Parenthesis by Élodie Durand - It's one of the best uses of comic as a medium I've ever seen. The theme in itself is very much up my alley because it's about memory, and perception and the mind. But the way it uses comic... I don't think this story could've been told in any other medium, or if it was it just wouldn't be so much...

Mononoke (2007) by Toei Animation - Fuck me it's beautiful. I'm very not normal when it comes to textile art and it's like textile art but anime... And the stories are fucking amazing. It has a whole story about koudou the traditional art of incense ... There's nothing better than this.

The Duchess (2008) - It's a very entertaining fanfiction about the fascinating woman that was Georgiana Cavendish. Her biography is also a very good read but heavier, but also more nuanced. And Keira Knightley and Hayley Atwell are amazing in it. Plus the visuals...

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I think I reached 10, yay. Honorable mentions to Berserk by Miura Kentaro - it's just beautiful; Avatar the Last Airbender - it still holds up after all this time; The Witcher aka what my teenage self loved (2 short stories books and the 4 volumes of the saga, the 5th book is so bad you should never read it); Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick - another fav of my teen self; Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa - it's about fashion and has fun characters just not George XD; Velvet Goldmine - the queerness and the fashion.

I'm 100% sure I'm forgetting a lot.

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Mononoke: a surrealistic experience

*As a disclaimer, please don’t confuse this series with Mononoke Hime, the film by Studio Ghibli, since they aren’t related more than in the similarity of their names.

This is my final post and what a better way to close this year with a good (as I believe) anime recommendation. My story with Mononoke began in the pandemic era, when I had a lot of free time and all-day access to internet. While trying to fight boredom, I started looking for anime that were like Mushishi (look, two recommendations in one post, wow), because I felt nostalgic but didn’t want to watch something very long. Then, I stumbled upon Mononoke. It immediately caught my attention, since it had a lot of ukyo-e and sumi-e aesthetics and followed a similar trope as Mushishi.

Formally, Mononoke is an original animated series and the spin-off of another anthological anime named Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror, which was released a year before. This series was produced by Toei Animation, under the direction of Kenji Nakamura (who also directed Gatchaman Crowds and Karas) and it was broadcasted from July to September in 2007, concluding with 12 episodes in total. Mononoke stands for ‘vengeful spirit’, so we have our protagonist, known as Kusuriuri (which translates to The Medicine Seller) traveling across of what seems to be a feudal Japan, investigating and solving cases related to supernatural creatures and their actions over humanity. To destroy the mononoke, Kusuriuri must figure out their Form (Katachi), Truth (Makoto) and Reason (Kotowari) through the questioning of the people involved in the case.

Watching Mononoke was quite the experience. First, because of how the cases were presented, dividing the stories into ‘arcs’ that usually took 2 or 3 chapters to finish, leaving 5 cases in total and each one more difficult to resolve than the one before. Also, and its more of note aspect was the surrealistic animation that Mononoke had, playing with the patterns, colors and textures in the background, giving an overwhelming sensation of a moving ‘scroll painting’ to the scenery, accompanying the madness that the mononoke created over the people they tormented in the series. This visual surrealism was also enhanced with an esoteric soundtrack, which also added to the building of the creepy atmosphere the creators wanted to transmit to the audience.

To put it simple, Mononoke is complete work of art made anime. And I hope that, whoever reads this post, can do themselves a favor and watch it as soon as possible. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed.

Last year it was announced that there would be a new movie of Mononoke being released this 2023, but it seems it got delayed due to the scandals in which Kusuriuri’s voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai (who was the seiyuu for Suguru Geto in Jujutsu Kaisen, Suzaku in Code Geass and many other popular anime) was involved. So, we’ll have to wait for news about the releasing of a new story of Mononoke.

(I'll leave the link to the full opening theme so you can enjoy it, it's very catchy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urg-avD8p3Q) - Francisca Rivera C.

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Zaverick Wondereviews Episode 23: Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales (Bakeneko arc only)

Studio: Toei Animation (Dragon Ball GT, One Piece, Toriko)

Pros:

⭕️ Great direction and writing

⭕️ The main characters were likeable

⭕️ There was a scene in there that was really funny but I can’t talk about it here

Cons:

❌ The animation did feel a little wonky at times

❌ I absolutely hate the opening theme which reminded me of the German Naruto opening

Score: 9/10

Final Verdict: A lead up for what would become Mononoke

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The gorgeous Mononoke movie is coming to Netflix later this month

Netflix Toei’s Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain from director Kenji Nakamura is one of this year’s most visually stunning anime films, and it’s making its way to Netflix in just a few weeks. Like the Mononoke series, Phantom in the Rain tells the tale of an unnamed merchant (Hiroshi Kamiya) who, in addition to selling medicines, specializes in exorcizing “mononoke” — malevolent spirits who…

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Anime/Manga "Mononoke"

“Mononoke” es una serie de anime y manga japonesa con las siguientes características: Datos básicos Título original: モノノ怪 (Mononoke) Género: Misterio, terror, sobrenatural Estudio de animación: Toei Animation Director: Kenji Nakamura Emisión original: 12 de julio – 27 de septiembre de 2007 Episodios: 12 Argumento La serie sigue a un misterioso boticario conocido simplemente como…

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Or I could have just read the jpwiki article on anime color.

STAC (Saito Tele-Anima Colors Co. Ltd.) スタック（

Sun Color/Taiyo Color (Taiyo Color Co., Ltd. ANIMATION. PAINT) 太陽色彩（太陽色彩株式会社

Sankisya 三��社（Sankisya）

Art Color Company アートカラー社

Nippon Pigment 日本顔料

STAC was big with Toei and was used by Ghibli until they switched to Canada's Chromacolour for Princess Mononoke.

lansing on the sailormoon forums made a database of the digitized STAC chart here

There's another really good color chart here for Taiyo

Mononoke-hime used 91 Chromacolour, and here's the current 80 on their site:

The moral is... if you're looking up something used in another country, try researching it in that language.

old digitalization of stac colors

I have been TRYING to find the name of the brands of cel paint(s) used in the 80s and 90s so I can find a color sheet for the ideal limited pallet to draw from for good good fake screenshots. I’ve seen Animex and Toei Animation Paints listed but I can’t trust that these are the accurate or only brands of the era. It’s totally possible that the paints used were from now defunct companies. I see a mention of Nicker paints used on backgrounds of Ghibli movies and other series ア-トセル or art cel paints seems to be a brand. Cel Vinyl Paints are listed for Disney in the late 80s with custom paints beforehand

I hope these colors are useful for anyone trying to make fake anime screenshots

Keep reading

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Assignment 1 - Industry Model - Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist.

Over the years, he has created extraordinary, magical and whimsical worlds for both children and adults to lose themselves within.

Miyazaki is a genius, and his films succeed on many levels – technical, emotional, intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and political.

He is a co-founder of one of the biggest animation studios in the world, Studio Ghibli,

Miyazaki has directed masterpieces like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke which have earned him critical acclaim as well as immense popularity on a global scale.

In 2003, Miyazaki won the best-animated film Oscar, for the spooky and surreal Spirited Away.

Early years

Hayao Miyazaki was born on 5th of January, 1941, in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

He is the 2nd Oldest of 4 brothers.

Father was director of his uncle's factory, Miyazaki Airplane, which made rudders for fighter planes, during WW2

He constantly liked to draw, especially planes.

His childhood dream was to become a manga artist.

During his 3rd year in High School, Miyazaki's interest in animation was sparked by “Panda and the Magic Serpent (1958)”, Japan's first feature-length animated film in color.

Miyazaki attended University in the department of political economy, majoring in Japanese Industrial Theory.

He joined the "Children's Literature Research Club", as it was the "closest thing back then to a comics club".

Around this time, he also drew manga; he never completed any stories but accumulated thousands of pages of the beginnings of stories.

Early Work

These are the studios he worked in;

In 1963, he began his career, working in television at Toei Animation as an in-between artist.

The first large-scale animation studio in Japan, between 1963 and 1971.

Following are some examples of his animation in early work;

1963 Watchdog Bow Wow

1971 Lupin III - Series

1984 Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind

He became chief secretary of Toei's labor union in 1964.

Miyazaki later worked as chief animator, concept artist, and scene designer on The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968).

Miyazaki’s first trip abroad was an important source of inspiration, and his great love for the European landscapes were integrated into these shows.

Following are some examples of his Manga in early work;

1969 Puss in Boots

1972 Animal Treasure Island

1998-1999 Tigers Covered With Mud

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli was founded with Miyazaki’s friends and colleagues Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki in 1985.

Ghibli halted production in 2014 when Miyazaki announced his retirement, but reopened in 2017 when he decided to go back to work on How Do You Live?, which is currently some three years away from completion.

Miyazaki’s career as a feature-film director at Studio Ghibli:

Castle in the Sky (1986),

My Neighbor Totoro (1988),

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989),

Porco Rosso (1992),

and later works Princess Mononoke (1997),

Spirited Away (2001),

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004),

Ponyo (2008)

and The Wind Rises (2013).

All of Miyazaki’s films are aimed at children or young teenagers. But he makes his films resonate with adults as well as children by keeping the emotions authentic.

Miyazaki does not underestimate the intelligence of children, or their powers of understanding. Characters in his films, they experience loss and sadness as well as joy, despair as well as hope, in a way that is relatable for both children and adults.

Miyazaki draws heavily on Japanese landscapes and culture, although the humanism of his films means they can be appreciated by international viewers. He loves the country’s woodlands (which he says contain more bugs than those of Europe), and he and his team made field trips to forests to research films like My Neighbour Totoro.

Themes and approach

Miyazaki tends to focus on female heroines, and his work has a feminist angle.

Miyazaki says he likes to create female characters because, he does not want his films to reflect only his own experiences.

Heroines that are powerful women in control of their own fates, and the destinies of whole cities and countries.

Flying is an activity which Miyazaki loves to animate, and it is a big theme of his films. Miyazaki’s father designed planes, and Ghibli shares its name with an Italian aircraft manufacturer.

Miyazaki likes the connection between creative design and engineering that goes into aeroplane design, and thinks it is similar to the process of making animated films.

Miyazaki’s approach to animation is based on Japanese anime, but is uniquely his own. Each of his films looks different, and each uses a unique colour scheme and library of shapes. His skill at depicting human movement has played a big part in his success.

Instead of writing the scripts and then adding the animation later – the modern Hollywood way, he focuses on the visual storyboards and then constructs the stories around the images he creates. Miyazaki’s focus on visual storytelling has allowed his imagination free reign.

References

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