![]() Yase has a strong personal flavor, with a taste for post-impressionism. However, seeing Fire Force episode 1 for myself, he’s come a long way. Being at SHAFT for so long under Akiyuki Shinbo’s wing, he was pinged as a ‘Shinbo-style director’ among others. One of the individuals to caught up in this migration was director Yuki Yase. That’s just one case and example and I’ll leave it at that (kViN at Sakuga Blog went into much greater detail when the show first started if you want to learn more). Episodes were aired unfinished (episode 10 of the Nadeko Snake arc was particularly atrocious in this regard, with only the voice acting completed), or worse, pushed off to being streamed because the final three episodes were nowhere near completed enough to be aired (this is also the reason these episodes are unable to be streamed alongside the rest of the series on Crunchyroll). Need proof? Let’s go back literally 10 years ago when their flagship series, Bakemonogatari became a runaway hit, and the best selling anime bluray of its time. Allegedly, and I believe this to be true, it was a chain reaction of a few key members moving over, inviting their former colleagues to come with them in attempt to escape the poor planning and rampant scheduling/production conflicts studio SHAFT has been plagued with for over the last decade. There was a mass migration of staff from studio SHAFT over to their current home at David Production. With that in mind, let’s look into some of the components that stood out.Ī lot of hype was generated around Fire Force when it first started. ![]() It made for a great self contained experience, one that, when paired with the visuals, dazzled me into writing this series of articles. This episode we dove into Shinra’s backstory, which had a solid pacing and an interesting plot from start to finish. The central protagonist, Shinra Kusakabe, joins the 8th Special Fire Force company, an ensemble cast of lovable misfits tasked with defeating the aforementioned infernals. We begin our story with the obligatory introduction of the characters and the world around them. The premise of Fire Force lends itself well to animation: firefighters with various forms of pyrokinesis battle fire demons (dubbed Infernals) that emerge out of spontaneous human combustion. It’s a trend that series director (and episode director in this case) Yuki Yase and his team at David Production uphold to the fullest. I’m not sure what kind of deal Ōkubo has with the sakuga cartel, but his work is well cared for. You may already be familiar with his name as the manga-ka of Soul Eater, a property you’ve probably already heard of, given how much of a visual darling it was. The annual film awards celebrate their 95th anniversary this year, and winners will be announced during a ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel at on Sunday, March 12.Fire Force or Enn Enn no Shobutai is a manga series written by Atsushi Ōkubo. The short has received numerous accolades including best animated short at the Calgary International Film Festival. The animated short was produced for the National Film Board by executive producer David Christensen, distributed by North West Studio. This isn't the first time Forbis and Tilby are receiving Academy Awards recognition - the duo was nominated for their 1999 project "When the Day Breaks" as well as 2011's "Wild Life." Tilby also received an individual nomination for 1991's "Strings." It's inspired by a maritime tale about a seaman who was blasted into the air after two ships collided in the Halifax harbour during the First World War. ![]() "The Flying Sailor," made by Calgary-based animators Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, is nominated for best animated short. An animated short film based on a story about the 1917 Halifax Explosion has snagged an Oscar nomination.
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