The new Miss Dior ad for the US market is one of the most powerful homages to anime since the Vuitton Superflat ad. Dior talks of its history and its links with French animation masters; I also see echoes of ‘Perfect Blue’ and the ‘Magnetic Rose’ segment in ‘Memories’. Influence of this depth takes years […]
Although asked in the context of Miyazaki’s and Ghibli’s views on the primacy of the feature film, this question covers an issue that’s been debated in the anime business and anime scholarship for decades. It’s a really interesting question, because some people undeniably consider feature films superior to other forms of moving picture, but when […]