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@yuyucow.bsky.social
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Animation, and also things that aren't animation. www.sakugabooru.com & www.patreon.com/Sakugabooru

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ayaka Nakata directed, boarded, and co-painted the color script for Kusuriya's new opening. Not as striking as her S2 intro, but at its best it showcases her ability to sublimate core ideas of a series into OP imagery that will stick with you. Love the lavish animation by Odashi in cuts 3-4 here
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the vein of Rilakkuma, Pan Dorobou is one of those kids-oriented shows with more luxurious staff than most megahits. Takahiko Kyougoku leading, Chieko Nakamura as the art director, main animators like Shingo Takenaka... Seihantai's designer Mako Miyako already snapped animating episode #01
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The upcoming Hirayasumi anime is a beauty, in a way that perfectly captures its appeal. Backgrounds fade to white but without introducing surreality, comfortable linework in all layers so that a lot of detail can still come together into a relaxed screen. Lived-in and chill, like it should be
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The agency & decision power that anime scriptwriters (yes, even series composers) people who love posting online assume they have vs reality
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We might genuinely be back www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UF_...
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アニメ『スティール・ボール・ラン ジョジョの奇妙な冒険』ノンクレジットオープニング映像|Kroi 『SPIN』
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TaiAri has been a lovely, remarkably polished show about psychotic girls taking videogames seriously enough to endanger their own lives. Ridiculous and it knows what, but the character beats are very earnest and cute. Final lesson: romantically pursuing a nerd is harder than any fighting game
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wrote about Jaadugar gathering an amazing team for its final arc. Despite battling production fatigue, their pointed creative choices solidify an (only for now!) incomplete story as an already thematically perfect journey blog.sakugabooru.com/2026/09/20/j...
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love Cobra next tho...........
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wrote about Jaadugar gathering an amazing team for its final arc. Despite battling production fatigue, their pointed creative choices solidify an (only for now!) incomplete story as an already thematically perfect journey blog.sakugabooru.com/2026/09/20/j...
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sakugabooru & Sakuga Blog @sakuga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia Production Notes #07-12 - A Star-filled Ending (For Now) blog.sakugabooru.com/2026/09/20/j... #anime #animation #sakuga #Jaadugar #AWitchInMongolia #天幕のジャードゥーガル
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Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia Production Notes #07-12 - A Star-filled Ending (For Now) - Sakuga Blog
Jaadugar gathered a luxurious lineup of lead creators to make its ending (for now) as evocative and fulfilling as possible.
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jaadugar's author said she sometimes resents the steady pacing she ought to keep in the manga. With ample time for this arc & armed with the desire to root the scheming in the personal, the anime gets closer to the characters and helps you grasp why they're capable of even committing atrocities
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Btw this is a show about a deadly secret agent recruited as a child soldier (VA: Chika Anzai) retiring and raising a kid (VA: Shion Wakayama) instead. Funniest Lycoreco fanfic of all time, despite being het otherwise
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nice week for TaiAri as well. The main appeal is psychotic girls playing fighting games, but it lowkey has great character arcs. I'm particularly fond of Inui as a person inadvertently looking down on her own feelings and idolizing passionate individuals, without realizing she does care a lot too
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Victoria of Many Faces has followed characters with unconventional backgrounds as they sought normal happiness, been elevated by unconventional directors (Yamauchi finale!) along the way, and now wraps up in an unconventional number of episodes. So flavorful & charming despite its dodgy production
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じゅら @jurayura.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Jaadugar returns with another stunning rendition of Mongol mythology. These otherworldly scenes also serve as an outlet for more radical idiosyncrasy (like the stylizations of director/boarder/layout artist Kenji Zenba) and to reinforce the adaptation's motifs, like Tolui feeling like dazzling light
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廾之 @kyowno.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
(Baffling that a show so obsessed with imbuing shots with meaning, but also so transparent about the intent, somehow ended up being discourse fodder because of a single episode btw)
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A clock separates human & seafolk, alluding to Lara's time ticking down. Sayonara Lara reframed light as life itself, and now a fading sunset is interrupted by artificial light just as Mari is presented with a temporary fix. One of many brief, fake lights she encounters while seeking a true solution
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Jaadugar's commitment to depicting cultures with care means not only animating their material aspects, but also attempting to capture their beliefs. Kotaro Matsunaga, who'd already overseen the stunning ceremony in episode #06, was a perfect choice to direct/board the highly spiritual ninth episode
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
KyoAni reached out to two key figures from their past like Reiko Yoshida and Yukiko Horiguchi, and now their work is animated by their most promising present & future. Gorgeous Sougen no Kagayaki CM led by rookie director/boarder Uno Nakata, supervisor Tomomi Sato, and art director Mayu Harashima
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名取さな @natorisana.com · 10/08/2026
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Only in Sparks of Tomorrow do you get a pivotal point in a character arc about freedom beyond gender roles, while at the same time they're inventing heavy metal by accident. Such a visual rollercoaster too, with deranged concepts meeting Tomomi Sato's traditionally excellent, emotive animation
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sayonara Lara has been an amazing outlet for debuting storyboarders & episode directors, with #06 being the turn for Kinema regular Asuka Kosato. The way they slot into the overall rhythm and build into the overarching motifs suggests very close, effective supervision by Koide as the series director
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jaadugar earned a breather episode after last week's dramatic banger, and it got that... but only on a technicality, because the politics of a way-too-big way-too-hated empire are unfolding, so there's no safe space anymore. Such a cool show still
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wrote about Jaadugar's incredible dedication to cultural accuracy, but how rather than trapping itself in the constraints of objective reality, it thrives in the gaps between factual history and compelling lies. A gorgeous, unique production worth exploring blog.sakugabooru.com/2026/08/07/j...
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sakugabooru & Sakuga Blog @sakuga.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia Production Notes #01-06 - Historically Accurate Animation Meets Compelling Artifice blog.sakugabooru.com/2026/08/07/j... #anime #animation #sakuga #Jaadugar #AWitchInMongolia #天幕のジャードゥーガル
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Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia Production Notes #01-06 - Historically Accurate Animation Meets Compelling Artifice - Sakuga Blog
Jaadugar is a one-of-a-kind effort in historical and cultural accuracy in TV anime, but also smart enough to introduce pointed, imaginative deceit.
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We're in an era of anime caring about international optics, but also one where high-profile studios are filled with people who make Sam Altman look like an AI skeptic, where all sci-fi veterans have developed severe ChatGPT psychosis. Good luck to everyone who has to navigate that. Or not, they suck
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sayonara Lara #05 links her struggles to reflections, photography, and subjective perception, in a way the script can't fully articulate but that rookie director Hirota elevates. Lara's focus on fairy tale-ish True Love blinds her to angles (like Mari maybe being her partner) revealed by reflections
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Very cute, clearly well meaning episode of Sparks of Tomorrow that's all about different forms of love. Like a Tamako episode that got shot with the beam that makes you insane (praise)
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Every Ave Mujica entry increases the chances that someone finally looks at Nyamuchi and asks why is a mid-20s woman in first year of high school, hanging out with the dysfunctional emo children
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
TaiAri is fundamentally funny because it chooses fighting games as the theme to build kinda exaggerated, simple but compelling character arcs... ...then there's the inexplicable gaming cryptid co-protag, who duels to the death with her supernaturally strong mom over the right to play Street Fighter
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Pressed the Shigeyasu Yamauchi-shaped button just one week later. Thank you Kimura, do Hatakeyama next
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Sparks of Tomorrow @sparks-of-tmr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Check the <Director's Whim Station✰4> on our official site! 💡 denkimokuroku.jp/en/special/d... Catch the streaming on Netflix every Sunday at 11PM(JST)! 📺 Also look forward to the director's whims! ⚡ #sparks_of_tomorrow #二十世紀電氣目録
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Gaku Yano had directed & boarded the best episode of Detective Precure so far. The only person capable of beating it? Gaku Yano, back to the same leading roles for the climax of Eclair's reveal. Same elegant, evocative sensibilities but also the bombast you like to see in a Precure midseason banger
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sparks of Tomorrow #04 is an exciting (TV) storyboarding & direction debut for Ayumu Yoshida. No doubt Ota gave her pointers as the project leader, but I love her way of envisioning a radical breakthrough in communication, while still making sure to keep everything grounded in human emotion
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sayonara Lara #04 follows the show's trend of shattering the protagonist's belief in embellished Traditional Romance (with the roles that implies) as the sole form of true love, but I like that it doesn't negate the validity of those emotions. It's unrequited this time, but beautiful all the same
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Töregene is my favorite Jaadugar character, so I was happy to see that episode #05 raised the bar when it came to depicting her expressions. Sharpness, anger, numbness and further fury at being used to her situation, hope mixed with pain when she crosses paths with a kindred soul like Sitara
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Movie just had the 8th biggest opening day in Japan's history. Do not fucking play with Chiikawa
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Scarseven - Cute Cartoon Hamster Animation
ALT: Scarseven - Cute Cartoon Hamster Animation
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Sparks of Tomorrow @sparks-of-tmr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Check the <Director's Whim Station✰3> on our official site! 💡 denkimokuroku.jp/en/special/d... Catch the streaming on Netflix every Sunday at 11PM(JST)! 📺 Also look forward to the director's whims! ⚡ #sparks_of_tomorrow #二十世紀電氣目録
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Sparks of Tomorrow @sparks-of-tmr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Check the <Director's Whim Station✰> on our official site! 💡 denkimokuroku.jp/en/special/d... Catch the streaming on Netflix every Sunday at 11PM(JST)! 📺 Also look forward to the director's whims! ⚡ #sparks_of_tomorrow #二十世紀電氣目録
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nobukage Kimura's direction for Victoria of Many Faces is sleek & stylish, in a way that synergizes with its protag's emotional baggage as she seeks ordinary happiness. DEEN keeps betting on idiosyncratic directors to elevate ultra-limited productions - not ideal, but they sure appoint cool people!
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sparks of Tomorrow poses electricity as a dazzling revolution to blast away the grit & stagnancy embodied by a steampunk Kyoto. Minoru Ota's wild imagery and choices of material do a great job of conveying the thrill, while the more traditional acting captures how this resonates with the characters
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Even among fairy tale princesses, The Little Mermaid is a romantic among romantics, yearning for an idealized love in a different world. Sayonara Lara takes that idea and runs with it: of course she'd crush catastrophically bad for a handsome girl the second that she casually says she likes her
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Peak yuri? Back in my day we called that
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Jaadugar's interest in the cultures it explores and the anime's willingness to flesh out the manga, summed up in a beautiful scene depicting Genghis Khan's demise. The anime incorporates his mythical wolf ancestry & a falling star, symbol of the death of a Leader and also a core motif in the series
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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Of course he singled it out when sharing his corrections. It's all pretty character drawings and then this, lol. Makino knows what he likes!
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