The themes of this season just keep asserting themselves. There’s clearly something to mangaka Yasuda Suzuhito’s Yozakura Quartet that compels, because anime keeps coming back to it over and over. But this series is really less about Yasuda-sensei’s manga and more about Ryo-timo, the auteur who directs and provides animation […] Read more
It’s amazing how an anime made so obviously on the cheap can look so cool. This OVA is really all about Sawa Ryochimo, the director, AD and character designer. A look at his résumé shows that at the tender age of 32, he’s already worked on a startling number of […] Read more
The OVA version of Yozakura Quartet continues to be far superior to the TV series, with Ryochimo Sawa’s signature look and direction continuing to lend a very distinctive style to this challenging manga adaptation. Unfortunately the animation quality seems to have taken a dip since the first episode, with some […] Read more
I don’t know the manga all that well, but I know that it’s much beloved. And I know that the TV adaptation left me just barely interested enough to slog through to the end. The character design and animation felt flat, and there serious pacing issues and flaws in the […] Read more