List: Anime | Curated by Émilia Hoarfrost

Sep 12, 2024
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Émilia Hoarfrost
TOME-E in Anime: Where Style Meets RhythmTome-e (止め絵) — also called “postcard memory” or “pastel chalk freeze frame” or “harmony cel” — is a technique found in Japanese animation…
Sep 12
Sep 12
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How do Crisis Rhetorics & Adaptive Ethos interact in Japanese Animation?Recently, the airing of the new Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (2024) anime has seen mixed reactions comparing the Imagin…
May 12
May 12
Émilia Hoarfrost
The Anime Trap: Femboy, Pederasty, Transfeminine Positionality under Patriarchal CapitalismAnime as an artform with a place in the mainstream media landscape stands to be glanced at with scrutiny, as somewhere narratives and their…
Apr 4
Apr 4
Émilia Hoarfrost
Understanding Transmisogyny In Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture: An Anime Comparative Analysis…(This article is a transcript of a panel I exposed on April 16th, 2024 for a symposium titled Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese…
Apr 16
Apr 16
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How Important is Perspective in Anime?Perspective is an ubiquitous element of Japanese animation, fully participating to both its immersion and realism, as well as a fabric of…
Feb 12
Feb 12
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YURI, MOE AND THE (FE)MALE GAZE IN ANIME: What Japanese Lesbian Media Can Teach Us On Gender From…In the anime community, critical discourse related to the male gaze tend to gravitate around two terms. Fan service: a gratuitous gender…
Dec 10, 2023
Dec 10, 2023
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ANIME FUNDING THROUGH THE STOCK MARKET: How Trading Influences Anime Production Companies And…Funding anime is the way to go from the stage of ideation, where pitching material (企画書, kikakusho) matters to convince potential…
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023
Émilia Hoarfrost
ANIME AND QUEER DEPICTION: How Japanese Animation Deconstructs The Binary As A Popular Artform!Queer depictions in anime are interesting to study as they reveal both things on the global reception of the medium (r/Animemes and the…
Nov 18, 2023
Nov 18, 2023
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THE WEALTH OF ANIME WALK CYCLES: Sprightly Ebata Walk And The Organic Overlapping Action!At its core, a walk cycle is about the repetitive walking action of a character. This means that it is conditioned by joints and skeletons…
Nov 3, 2023
Nov 3, 2023
Émilia Hoarfrost
FALL 2023 ANIME LINEUP: A Production Spotlight On Promising Shows (Frieren, Overtake!,Trying to cover an entire season in an article is always a tough try, perhaps doomed to fail, simply by virtue of my attention span being…
Oct 14, 2023
Oct 14, 2023
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YOUR OWN ANIME STUDIO: Late-Game Animation Career Goal?To an anime career, a handful of job positions fit what could be defined as a late-game career stage, equating with more experience to…
Oct 28, 2023
Oct 28, 2023
Émilia Hoarfrost
ANIME AND THE CUT UNIT PRICE: On the Interplay Between Producers, Animators, and Anime Workers in a…That animators don’t swim in gold is common knowledge in the anime community, especially if compared to their Western counterparts, whether…
Oct 7, 2023
Oct 7, 2023
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ANIME AS A DOMINATED PYRAMID: On Socioeconomical Dynamics Within the IndustryThe anime industry pits workers one against the other through the mechanism of a free, liberal market. This competition conditions multiple…
Sep 24, 2023
Sep 24, 2023
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ANIMATION BREAKDOWN: Azur Lane’s Kashino Skin Trailer Shatters Volume Conventions; Squashy-Stretchy…Azur Lane’s new controversial trailer animated volume conventions in an unnatural way, remarkably weaving its own thread with the…
Sep 18, 2023
Sep 18, 2023
Émilia Hoarfrost
Why Caring About Studios MattersTo judge an anime on the basis of the studio backing it can be a double-edged sword. It’s akin to the expression “don’t judge a book by its…
Aug 16, 2022
Aug 16, 2022
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Producers: Anime Industry BackbonesThe producer’s role in anime is one that truly constitutes the backbone of the industry. And yet, it arguably doesn’t get the attention it…
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
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Crowdfunding Anime: Nekopara Case StudyNekopara showed to the anime world what crowdfunding could achieve within the industry — securing US$1,049,552 to the OVA adaptation back…
Aug 8, 2022
Aug 8, 2022
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Anime 3DCG: From Denial To Acceptance, What’s The Public Sentiment?3DCG in anime has forged ahead alongside the progresses of computer graphics. Still, harsh criticism often seems to meet it within the…
Jul 4, 2023
Jul 4, 2023
Émilia Hoarfrost
World Music Day: Let’s Talk Paripi KoumeiToday is World Music Day, quite a festive day. As a composer, I guess I should be doing sound-related stuff on this day as well. Yet here I…
Jun 21, 2022
Jun 21, 2022
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Reviewing RWBY: Ice Queendom Eps 1–3At last, RWBY has an anime. While the animation series has long been famous around anime fans in the West, this anime might also reflect…
Jun 25, 2022
Jun 25, 2022