The Reason for the Season – 12 Days of Anime(tion)
Cartoon Milk reveals the true meaning of Christmas.
Cartoon Milk reveals the true meaning of Christmas.
An introduction to the films of Inessa Alexeyevna Kovalevskaya, a Russian director of animated musical films.
They say sakuga writing is lacking in poetry. It’s about time we fixed that.
I’ve been an anime fan for just about all of my life.
The first anime I can remember seeing that was presented “as anime” was Ranma ½. One day when I was 6 or 7 my older sister let me watch fansubbed copies of the first few episodes as long as I promised to not tell our mom and it was pretty much all downhill from there.
So why the personal history lesson?
Around 2011 or so I found myself losing interest in anime for the first time and ended up taking a break that lasted several years. For me personally, digging through various shorts from Minna no Uta played a major part in giving me a new window into appreciating animation.
Cartoon Milk takes a look at some seasonal cartoons from places on planet earth.
A look into how Daffy Duck serves as a mirror who reflects the artists behind him.
The editors of Cartoon Milk share some thoughts on 5 randomly picked holiday cartoons.
Cartoon Milk introduces the world to their quest to run a blog, and starting it out with trying to do the “12 Days of Anime” Challenge.
Before talking about the show with any depth I think two disclaimers are probably in order, one major and one minor. The minor disclaimer is that I am not familiar with Osamu Kobayashi’s work as a whole and with how personal this project is I’m certain a more complete look would include his history as an artist.
The major disclaimer is that I watched this series in Japanese, a language I am far from fluent in. While I am confident I picked up the major beats of the story I doubtlessly missed a fair bit of nuance and I think people should take that into account and decide for themselves what my opinion is worth.
I honestly didn’t expect to even watch this show when I hit play. I certainly didn’t expect to end up loving it.