Comments on Film Walrus Reviews: Review of Flatland

I also enjoyed the intertitles. It would have bee...

2009-02-22T18:31:00.000-06:00

I also enjoyed the intertitles. It would have been nice to go back to that at the end.

Some unfortunate consequences of anime's diminishe...

2009-02-20T13:42:00.000-06:00

Some unfortunate consequences of anime's diminished profile: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-02-20/best-buy-to-change-dvd-strategy

I defer to you about the current state of anime to...

2009-02-17T22:54:00.000-06:00

I defer to you about the current state of anime today, but it does seem to have entered into popular discourse that at least regular schmos know what your talking about when you say "anime" and can usually name a few titles. If your right about today's state of anime, I hope it's just a slump rather than a continuous downward slide. Like I said, I have faith in falling production prices to encourage fresh blood.

Anyway, Nocturna sounds quite interesting. I've not heard of it or seen any Spanish animation before, so I'll try and check it out.

I'd have to argue that anime hasn't graduated from...

2009-02-17T21:06:00.000-06:00

I'd have to argue that anime hasn't graduated from subculture status. At one time, everyone thought that anime was going to be the Next Big Thing. Companies were licensing like crazy and anime conventions were boasting better numbers than ever before and there were all sorts of TV deals. Then, unexpectedly, American interest in anime peaked. It's got just about as many fans as it ever will, I'm willing to bet. Now anime licensing companies in America are releasing mostly priced-down reissues in hopes of recouping costs and only a few companies are releasing a smattering of new licenses. Japanese companies are picking up on the fact that America isn't as profitable as it once might have seemed, so they're going back to making productions exclusively for Japanese tastes (i.e. maids, schoolgirls, moe) and not pursuing some of the darker, unusual ideas like they were for a period of time in the early to mid-2000s. It's sort of slim pickin's nowadays.

But shifting points, have you ever heard of the Spanish animated feature Nocturna? I saw it being discussed on a message board and found a UK dub of it floating on the internet, but hadn't watched it yet.