Designing for Anime
The team at Cardiff animation studio Turnip Starfish were recently asked to produce some designs in an ‘Anime’ style for one of our clients. Two adverts were going to be […]
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Lexemon’s Blog
Ghost in the Shell & The Ghost in the Shell
Many moons ago, when anime reached the western world, our first experience of Japanese animation was likely to be either Akira or Ghost in the Shell. Both of these films
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Fandom & Toxic Fandom
Fandom ‘Fandom: the state or attitude of being a fan.’ Merriam-Webster website Fandoms exist in many different forms. They can be related to a sports team, a pop star, movies
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Gachiakuta
“They say that when an object is well loved it is eventually imbued with a soul, then what about the garbage, the trash that gets thrown away? What is that
See Lexy’s sketchbook!
Lexy had been drawing anime, manga and cartoons for years. She has working in the animation industry for over 20 years and been teaching young people how to draw for
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DEADLINE: Manga and the work life balance of their creators.
Recently the creator of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, became ill and was unable to complete his weekly chapter of One Piece for publication in Weekly Shonen Jump. Fans of One
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One Piece
One Piece is one of the most impressive manga and anime ever created and almost every manga and anime fan will have heard of it. Created by Eiichiro Oda, the
The Big Three
One Piece, Naruto and Bleach. Three anime/manga that have dominated the anime/manga world for several years. If you asked a random person if they’d ever heard of these anime, most
Dandadan
Dandadan. There are so many words to describe Dandadan that my list would go on forever so it’s best to just say that this anime is NOT boring, sensible, calm
Mashle: Magic and Muscles
Mashle: Magic and Muscles was released as a manga in 2020 and became an anime in 2023. I’ve known about it for a while, but it’s never really appealed to
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