Borealis chats with voice actor Marquiz Moore about breaking into the anime industry with the first boys’ love simuldub and how silliness, sincerity, and self-belief is key to surviving (and thriving) in the world of voice acting.| Yatta-Tachi
CITY: The Animation is finally here, through an unusually close collaboration between author Keiichi Arawi and Kyoto Animation. To capture his original charm, the team led by Taiichi Ishidate found themselves experimenting with all sorts of inventive, fresh techniques. This is the story of the circumstances and creative choices that led to this adaptation, which you can already enjoy in its first episode. If you liked the Nichijou anime back in 2011, congratulations, you’re on the same page...| Sakuga Blog
In addition to all the articles we’ve published, and before properly moving onto Spring titles, enjoy this lengthy compilation of comments and short essays about other works that have impressed us early in 2025. There are some notes about big hits of course, but also a look at specific moments that elevated shows, smaller works that nonetheless deserve attention, and a space for the indie and avant-garde as well. You may have noticed that we shared quite a few articles... Read More Read More| Sakuga Blog
Tetsuya Takeuchi is a beloved animator, and as it tends to happen, it’s his action work that receives the most attention. Though many do know he builds upon his characteristic articulation of acting, fewer realize how strongly he’s driven by broader interests—and how many of them happen to be concentrated in Tensei Ojisan, his well-meaning, cute debut as TV anime director. It’s not always that you can tell how directly a lead creative’s style and interests map to the characteristics...| Sakuga Blog
Sorairo Utility is Kengo Saito’s passion project through and through—not only as its original author and all-encompassing lead creative within the production team, but also in how it embodies his whole career, influences, hobbies, and the honest desire for people to chase their dreams without self-doubt. To talk about Sorairo Utility is to talk about Kengo Saito. His name brings the works of studio Trigger to mind for most people, and while that relationship is indispensable to understand...| Sakuga Blog
Chi / Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a thoughtful, uplifting tale about curiosity and the indomitable human spirit. Its adaptation has earned critical praise among illustrious members of the anime industry, yet at the same time, some equally notable peers have pointed out the friction between its message and the approach to the anime. Ultimately, where does it land? The appeal of Chi, also known as Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, is incredibly easy to... Read More Read More| Sakuga Blog
Uma Musume’s Beginning of a New Era movie is the fiercest, most aggressively expressive sports film in a while. Beneath that bombastic animation horsepower, you’ll find an ingenious director’s uplifting story about possibilities that is worth exploring. Prisms are a universal symbol for potential, an array of possibilities. The way a ray of white light is refracted and dispersed into an entire rainbow spectrum is, as far as physical phenomena go, a straightforward visualization of the i...| Sakuga Blog
The time has come again. To bid a final goodbye to 2024, we gathered animators, designers, directors, producers, studio founders, and individuals with all sorts of relationships with animation to share the works they loved the most in 2024—both new and classic. Join us at the Sakugabooru Animation Awards 2024, aka Sakugabowl! Entries: — Aarón Rodríguez — Adanusch — Ken 🍁 Yamamoto — Relux — ちな — chi — Yuusei Koumoto — Futon — Fede — eichiwai / Hayato Kunisada... ...| Sakuga Blog
Kenji Nakamura is a disruptive, unique, truly avantgarde anime director. An ever-evolving creator whose mindset shifted 15 years ago when he directed Kuuchuu Buranko / Trapeze, despite having achieved amazing works by that point already. Even as he chases new forms of expression, that can still be felt in his new Mononoke films. Calling Kenji Nakamura a unique anime director is an understatement. You don’t need to make it as far as his visually radical design sense, unusually grand preoccup...| Sakuga Blog