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Belladonna of Sadness Director Eiichi Yamamoto Passes Away

As announced during a Tokyo screening of 1973's Belladonna of Sadness, the anime film's director, Eiichi Yamamoto, passed away.
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Belladonna of Sadness Director Eiichi Yamamoto Passes Away
by Joseph Luster September 26, 2021
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As announced during a Tokyo screening of 1973’s Belladonna of Sadness over the weekend, the anime film’s director, Eiichi Yamamoto, passed away due to heart failure on September 7. Yamamoto was 80 years old, and his close family held a funeral for him on September 12.

According to event organizers, a family member contacted them and told them the news after they saw a listing for the Belladonna of Sadness screening on social media. Despite being sick for the past few years, Yamamoto had maintained his enthusiasm for creating works and anime in general.

Yamamoto got his start in animation when he joined Ryuichi Yokoyama’s Otogi Productions, shortly after which he caught wind of a new studio being started up by the God of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka. He then became one of the founding Mushi Production members in 1961, co-directing Tales of the Street Corner, the studio’s first work. He went on to direct episodes of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, the Cleopatra anime film, and more.

Yamamoto’s final anime film for MushiPro prior to it going bankrupt would be the cult classic Belladonna of Sadness. He also wrote screenplays for the Space Battleship Yamato anime, co-directed Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight, and handled many other projects throughout his career.

Our thoughts go out to Yamamoto’s family, industry colleagues, and friends.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
A thing I just thought about. What is aired on anime time blocks in Japan when there's no new seasonal anime? Are some series reruns being spammed to infinity?
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I would imagine yes considering how many tweets I see from the official Garupan Twitter announcing when they are re-running episodes of the series. They likely take series that are recently relevant, from a second season or movie being announced or aired for example, and give them re-runs since the hype is high for them again.
 
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A thing I just thought about. What is aired on anime time blocks in Japan when there's no new seasonal anime? Are some series reruns being spammed to infinity?
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Since anime usually airs later I imagine if the block doesn't have a new anime airing it'd probably be filled by one of the billion Japanese variety shows.
 
KokoroKoroki said:
Takao Saito, the mangaka of Golgo 13, one of the longest currently running manga, has unfortunately passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 84.
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I just managed to get out of an online class today to be alerted to this unfortunate news. As someone that used to regularly read this manga for the last couple of years, I’m just thankful that I managed to read an historical piece of art regarding the Japanese James Bond.

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Long Live The Professional

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What the fuck.
www.hokutonogun.com

Kengan is back!!! …Well, sort of.

Well, it’s been months, but now I finally get to talk about this. Buckle up, people, cause it’s storytime. So way back in the springtime, the Kengan team was scouted by a company who ha…
www.hokutonogun.com

So HnG did get hired for the official release of Kengan.

I've never heard of Comikey before now, anyone know anything about them.
 
vern said:
What the fuck.
www.hokutonogun.com

Kengan is back!!! …Well, sort of.

Well, it’s been months, but now I finally get to talk about this. Buckle up, people, cause it’s storytime. So way back in the springtime, the Kengan team was scouted by a company who ha…
www.hokutonogun.com

So HnG did get hired for the official release of Kengan.

I've never heard of Comikey before now, anyone know anything about them.
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Well-deserved. They're pushing out non-mainstream content aside from Kengan. One of the best scanlators imo.
 
vern said:
I've never heard of Comikey before now, anyone know anything about them.
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An official online manga/webtoon reader that does simultaneous publishing in English. Some chapters are free, but some are locked and you need to pay with "keys" in order to unlock them.
 
Saito worked on Golgo 13 for decades except for a two month hiatus last year. For the 45 anniversary of the serialization of Golgo 13, other artists drew tributes, like Oda, Naoki Urasawa. Takehiko Inoue, Rumiko Takahasi, etc.

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Some of his other works include his first hit Typhoon Goro, which I wish some scanslators somewhere would get cracking on

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and adaptions of four of Fleming's Bond novels, Live and Let Die, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and The Man With the Golden Gun, critically acclaimed in Japan, though the holders of the Bond literary license withdrew permission for more adaptions. In his book James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007 Alan Porter devotes only a short amount of space to Saito's adaptions (probably due to a lack of availbility at the time) but speculates the reason for the plug being pulled on future installments was because they began to diverge greatly from the source material. Even harder to find is his Man from UNCLE manga, Napoleon Solo.
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Other titles of Saito's include Kage Gari, published from 1969 to 1973, set during the last years of the Shogunate. Three ronin who have all suffered because of shinobi shenanigans have gotten together to hunt down anything in a black suit. Ninja are portrayed as errand boys using their tricks in service of the corrupt government, Our anti-heroes hack and slash their way through ninja, and have to deal with such challenges like kunoichi who tend to strip off their clothes in front of them.
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And from 1980, Doll the Hotel Detective, about a pistol packing heroine who works in the private security business.

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Also of interest, this episode of Urasawa's interview series from 2015 where he talked with Saito, and the viewer gets to see him work, it's a rather insightful episode.

 
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Saito worked on Golgo 13 except for a two month hiatus last year. For the 45 anniversary of the serialization of Golgo 13, other artists drew tributes, like Oda, Naoki Urasawa. Takehiko Inoue, Rumiko Takahasi, etc.

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Some of his other works include his first hit Typhoon Goro, which I wish some scanslators somewhere would get cracking on

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and adaptions of four of Fleming's Bond novels, Live and Let Die, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and The Man With the Golden Gun, critically acclaimed in Japan, though the holders of the Bond literary license withdrew permission for more adaptions. In his book James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007 Alan Porter devotes only a short amount of space to Saito's adaptions (probably due to a lack of availbility at the time) but speculates the reason for the plug being pulled on future installments was because they began to diverge greatly from the source material. Even harder to find is his Man from UNCLE manga, Napoleon Solo.
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Other titles of Saito's include Kage Gari, published from 1969 to 1973, set during the last years of the Shogunate. Three ronin who have all suffered because of shinobi shenanigans have gotten together to hunt down anything in a black suit. Ninja are portrayed as errand boys using their tricks in service of the corrupt government, Our anti-heroes hack and slash their way through ninja, and have to deal with such challenges like kunoichi who tend to strip off their clothes in front of them.View attachment 2582724View attachment 2582725

And from 1980, Doll the Hotel Detective, about a pistol packing heroine who works in the private security business.

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Also of interest, this episode of Urasawa's interview series from 2015 where he talked with Saito, and the viewer gets to see him work, it's a rather insightful episode.

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There needs to be more Gekiga content in the mainstream, man... Content like these are hard to find and only scanlated by a very niche community.
 
Is Berserk worth watching? Had some friends recommend it. I hear it's Blood Meridian levels of fucked up.
 
I just finished watching Zeta Gundam, and what the Hell is up with the ending? I heard the last two episodes were the best, but is that a joke? They're incredibly preachy and the main character literally becomes retarded.

Also, what the fuck was the point of Jerid? He should have been combined with Yazan. Together, they would have formed a new character, called Yazan. In fact, just scrap Jerid altogether. Yazan is fucking based, though.
 
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biozeminadae1 said:
I just finished watching Zeta Gundam, and what the Hell is up with the ending? I heard the last two episodes were the best, but is that a joke? They're incredibly preachy and the main character literally becomes retarded.

Also, what the fuck was the point of Jerid? He should have been combined with Yazan. Together, they would have formed a new character, called Yazan. In fact, just scrap Jerid altogether. Yazan is fucking based, though.
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Jerid's entire life was a waste of time in the end and I thought that was really really funny. I'm actually satisfied with him as a character, Gundam isn't afraid to let people be failures. Yazan is the best though I thought ZZ did him a disservice.
 
Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
Jerid's entire life was a waste of time in the end and I thought that was really really funny. I'm actually satisfied with him as a character, Gundam isn't afraid to let people be failures. Yazan is the best though I thought ZZ did him a disservice.
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But why make him a rival to Kamille? They had no chemistry. His story should have been entirely separate to that of Kamille's, yet the anime kept pushing them together. It's especially evident, since Kamille kills off one of his love interests. Or maybe he killed two of them? I think he killed that lesbian newtype as well, when she was under his command.

And, you say that the anime allows people to be failures, but I feel that it's more due to bad writing than anything else. It's usually everyone else other than the main cast that is a failure. Seriously, barely anybody of the AEUG, who's not of secondary or tertiary importance (to the audience), dies until the last three episodes.

And the anime also "revives" people who should have died, only to give them a bizarre role. And they're usually women. The women are handled kind of strangely in the anime.

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Another thing that irked me was that characters did whatever they pleased, without following some sort of military doctrine and the commanding officers just said "Do as you wish". What the fuck?

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A significant problem the anime has is that the AEUG, which are basically rebels, are too good. Rebel groups are notorious throughout history for their atrocities, yet we see no such thing from them. This makes the anime incredibly one-sided against the Titans, a military gestapo fascist group. Even the original Gundam made the sides more even, with honorable characters on Zeon's team.
 
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