Japanese Animation

This past weekend from January 26th through the 29th under the back drop of the snow covered San Antonio Mountains, and bright California sun, a sea of people gathered at the Ontario Convention Center for Anime LA, 2017.

Indeed a vast sea of people showed up; different ethnicity, different races, different religions, different sex, different gender, all congregated to celebrate a common love of art. They celebrated freedom, creativity, and diversity in a week when those values were purposefully, systematically, and maliciously attacked.

Now, just to be clear, an event like Anime LA is crazy. On paper it sounds impossible. Tons of contrasting people from all across the nation, all in one place celebrating a niche art?

It’s a lot like Anime hair: it defies all reason.

“Is it hair, a gun, a dick? Seriously, Please explain.”

At the con we spoke with Elizabeth; one of the hundreds of dedicated Cos-players, and creators, who make the impossible possible. Admittedly, making wigs seems like a minor, tedious, finger callous creating task, and it is. However, a lot can be learned from putting on a headpiece that looks impossible.

One of the more obvious lessons: a good wig isn’t all one single piece of hair. The best wigs are made from thousands of different strands of plastic fibers, woven together to make one whole headpiece.

A bunch of different individual fibers, woven together, to form impossibly beautiful shapes, colors, and styles all in the name of art. It is a metaphorical concept that’s both figuratively and literally designed to wrap around your head.

It looks impossible, but it works. Not always perfect, sometimes unwieldy, but individual pieces bonded together form something beautiful.

Perhaps taking such a ridiculous concept to heart would go a long way in preventing division?

Nevertheless, in a week where sanity seems to have taken a nose dive, have peace in knowing there are places where diversity continues to band together to celebrate and create something truly spectacular.

Thank you to all who attended, volunteered, and staffed Anime LA, 2017.

On Site @AnimeLA2017

Warner Bros. has tapped commercial director Nic Mathieu to direct their upcoming live action adaptation of the mecha-centered Japanese series Robotech. The modern approach the 80’s series, which is being produced by Akiva Goldsman and Tobey Maquire, has been in production for quite some time. Ever since 2007 to be specific. There’s been quite a few writers that have worked on the screenplay for the adaptation of the series but this is the first time a director has been attached.

The series is described as follows:

Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific island. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship’s energy source known as “protoculture,” and the planet’s survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.

No release date or other details have been revealed.

Source: THR

Tag: Japanese Animation

Anime LA 2017: A Revelation in Wigs

Nic Mathieu To Direct Warner Bros. ‘Robotech’ Adaptation