Newtype May 2017, Gundam Thunderbolt’s Producer Ogata Naohiro: The New Battlefield, Earth

To Io and Daryl’s new stage — The 2nd season of Gundam Thunderbolt has already started. Ogata: This was the plan from the start. We wanted to let the fans soak in the 1st season and then start up with the 2nd not long after. The staff already had the know-how and workflow established, so …

Animage May 2017, Yoshinari You on the Starting Trials

Yoshinari You is the director and creator of both the Little Witch Academia films, and now returns to direct the TV series. In this interview with Animage (May 2017), Yoshinari takes a look back on the first cour of this magical series! Like Akko, the staff gives it their all when they're struggling. — At …

Tomino X Araki: Putting the Breaks on Adapting to Direct?! Part 2

Hello, this is the second part of a chat between Gundam's Tomino and Attack on Titan's Araki. If you missed it, the first part can be found here. Tomino is a rather talkative man so it is a lot of Tomino talking with Araki speaking up every now and then. Regardless, the two talk about …

Tomino X Araki: Putting the Breaks on Adapting to Direct?! Part 1

In every issue of Animage, Tomino Yoshiyuki (director of Mobile Suit Gundam) has an "Ask Tomino" section where he gives life advice. Recently two books accumulating all of those responses have been released. In the back of these are special talks between him and other directors. This time Tomino chats with Araki Tetsurou, director of …