Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2014
Feb. 21st, 2023 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAfter a few years when looking back turned up a satisfying number of anime series I was ready to go back to (although picking what series to sample wasn’t that hard the past few times), my list has thinned out a bit again. However, Shirobako showing up seems to more than compensate for that. While this is one recent series I have got around to rewatching on Blu-Ray after seeing it streaming (which means I’m getting that much closer to way things are now), returning to its first episode was fine by me.
To be quite fair, the last few years (and the last few months) have been that much sharper at pointing out what a strain it is to turn out half-hour episodes of animation on a weekly schedule than Shirobako’s clean-scrubbed travails. I did wonder just a little about the size of the eyes of the audience-identification figures introduced as five high school girls working on their own bit of animation for their school festival, which the main story itself picks up on a few years later when they’re starting to get footholds in the industry proper. I also found myself trying to remember the glosses I’d seen applied in online commentary to the roles and jargon flying thick and fast through the show. (There was the temptation to get a pad of paper and write down the names and positions shown on screen.) With all of that in mind, though, the first crisis of production the main character Aoi has to try and make up for the failings of somebody else caught me up, even if the episode pushed straight on from the apparent resolution to a cliffhanger ending. As ever, the question winds up when I might possibly get back to this series again after all the other ones I’ve already thought it might be nice to build on a mere sample of.
To be quite fair, the last few years (and the last few months) have been that much sharper at pointing out what a strain it is to turn out half-hour episodes of animation on a weekly schedule than Shirobako’s clean-scrubbed travails. I did wonder just a little about the size of the eyes of the audience-identification figures introduced as five high school girls working on their own bit of animation for their school festival, which the main story itself picks up on a few years later when they’re starting to get footholds in the industry proper. I also found myself trying to remember the glosses I’d seen applied in online commentary to the roles and jargon flying thick and fast through the show. (There was the temptation to get a pad of paper and write down the names and positions shown on screen.) With all of that in mind, though, the first crisis of production the main character Aoi has to try and make up for the failings of somebody else caught me up, even if the episode pushed straight on from the apparent resolution to a cliffhanger ending. As ever, the question winds up when I might possibly get back to this series again after all the other ones I’ve already thought it might be nice to build on a mere sample of.