Robot Carnival, it brings people together!
I often heard "Postcard Memories" as another term for this as well.
Yeah, stuff like this was especially popular with shows form the '80s and '90s, like Dragon Ball and Ginga Nagareboshi Gin.
The use of this style in Kill la Kill is addressed in this documentary. They refer to it as "an old manga kind of feel" and "an old-fashioned, Shouwa Era anime style". You rarely see it nowadays, unfortunately.
Thank you so much, for sharing your knowledge as well as that video, love learning new stuff here! And yeah, I'd also like to see this technique make a return. The most recent example I can think of is episode 126 of DBS, which is pretty fitting considering the retro\nostalgic vibe of the show:
Besides Kill la Kill, another more recent anime I can think of that used this technique a lot is Hunter x Hunter 2011, maybe as an homage to Yu Yu Hakusho. But even that finished airing in 2014 which was a while ago.
Oh yeah, both anime adaptations of Hunter X Hunter are incredible (well, beside the Greed Island OVAs). A tribute to Yu Yu Hakusho would make tons of sense, seeing as both YYH and HXH were created by Yoshihiro Togashi. I wonder if it's slowly time to start adapting the rest of the manga to animation, even though it's still far from being finished as far as I can remember.
It's hard to say if the HxH anime will ever come back. We're getting closer to the 10th year anniversary for the 2011 anime which is crazy. Togashi said in an interview that fans can consider the place where the 2011 anime finished to be the ending of the series, what he is doing in the manga right now is more of an epilogue of sorts I suppose where he can explore more crazy ideas. I think it's for the best if we assume it won't return. It will be great if it does, but right now there's not that much incentive considering whenever new manga volumes release, they fairly consistently sell 1 million copies, I don't think anything else besides new One Piece volumes manage to achieve that at the moment.
What the fuck.
Oh I bet! This is the Japan nobody speaks of!
Never even heard of that manga before you comment. Checked out the first chapter, and I have to say I'm hooked. Thanks!
Poor Rin Tin Tin deserves better than to have degeneracy like this named after him.
Holy Hell, 2021 really is less than 2 years away, isn't it? That's crazy. But yeah, recent HXH really feels like a sand box of world building and political intrigue rather than a hero's journey type of tale. At the very least it was hinted that Gon might be able to find something on the dark continent that could restore his connection to his nen, so there's always a slight chance Togashi might put some more focus back on him in the future.
That is true. Yet there's a part of me that finds it funny such a thing exists at all, and came out at the right time and place for it (in Japan of course). The OVA boom seemed to had given the green light to any project big or small that didn't fit the normal channels at all based on demographics or content, and very often small manga titles like this managed to find producers ready to splurged where they felt necessary. Kennel Tokorozawa is a good example of that excess.
Oh, certainly! It's really weird how tonally it feels like your typical teen-oriented, ecchi laden romantic comedy anime, like it almost feels like it would've been less weird if the creators would've owned up to it and went full hentai.