(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

For C&CS, I’m currently working on an essay on Song of the Sea animated movie. This work is highly personal for me, because the movie reflects my personal perception of the world, views on the position of folklore in contemporary life, and the nostalgic feeling of childhood. The visual side of the movie is also of a great interest to me, and I’ve already started copying the technique to understand it better.

The thing is, that the fairy tale is fading away nowadays. Most people do not consider it a part of their life, and are more oriented to the future than to the past. So, the folklore is being forgotten. But looking closer at it, besides my personal interest, i see that remembering it is essential for a culture and particular human. And I admire Tomm Moore, for he dared to make the movie based on such idea, and he made it absolutely gorgeous. He really showed everyone, that the folk heritage is still alive, he made it interesting to children and adults. And that was a great risk for him and his studio, because normally such movies are not very popular. But the great popularity of it has shown, that folklore still has a potential as a theme in popular contemporary culture.

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Barko was a WWI-era Cigarette Dog trench-runner. Like a St. Bernard but with smokes.

The trouble-makers of Luna Nova hanging out ! 

Νew poster of Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade (リトルウィッチアカデミ魔法仕掛けのパレード) illustrated by key-animator Takafumi Hori (堀剛史), that was featured in Ultra Jump’s October issue! Scanned by a friend for me.

Look at how Amanda and Akko look at each other !!! Everyone looks at them… Constanze with her little robot-firend though… I’M DYING ! *coughs* OTP