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Advent_Nebula



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:09 pm Reply with quote
Edit- Never mind.

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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:11 pm Reply with quote
Actually, Noriyuki Abe is on there twice. So is Ryutaru Nakamura.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:26 pm Reply with quote
Any chance of linking the director's name to his Encyclopedia entry? I know there are some directors whose work I really like, but whose names I can't remember for jack, so it'd be nice to be able to browse on the spot some of their work so that I and others aren't simply stuck voting for the only five or so anime directors with any real instant name recognition (Miyazaki, Oshii, Kon, Tomino, etc.).
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:36 pm Reply with quote
Nagisa wrote:
Any chance of linking the director's name to his Encyclopedia entry? I know there are some directors whose work I really like, but whose names I can't remember for jack, so it's be nice to be able to browse on the spot some of their work so that I and others aren't simply stuck voting for the only five or so anime directors with any real instant notoriety (Miyazaki, Oshii, Kon, Tomino, etc.).

That would be nice - I spent about fifteen minutes checking through my favourites list to make sure I wasn't missing a beat. I wound up voting for Satoshi Kon, but I did so only after careful consideration. Close runners-up were Tomokazu Tokoro, Kenichi Kasai, Mamoru Oshii and of course Hayao Miyazaki.

Missing name: Osamu Kobayashi.

I'd still have voted for Kon over Kobayashi, but his name ought to be on there.

Of course, realistically, this poll is about second place following Miyazaki.

- abunai
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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:21 pm Reply with quote
I'm happy to see that Mitsuo Fukuda is NOT on the list.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:24 pm Reply with quote
Nagisa wrote:
Any chance of linking the director's name to his Encyclopedia entry? I know there are some directors whose work I really like, but whose names I can't remember for jack, so it'd be nice to be able to browse on the spot some of their work so that I and others aren't simply stuck voting for the only five or so anime directors with any real instant name recognition (Miyazaki, Oshii, Kon, Tomino, etc.).


I was trying to put together all the links with their directors, but I have to go now. Maybe somebody else can finish it? Or maybe I'll finish it once I get back.
Hayao Miyazaki
Shinichiro Watanabe
Hideaki Anno
Satoshi Kon
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Mamoru Oshii
Akitaro Daichi
Makoto Shinkai
Katsuhiro Otomo
Tomokazu Tokoro
Mahiro Maeda
Masayuki Kojima
Noriyuki Abe
Isao Takahata
Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Kazuki Akane
Osamu Tezuka
Ryutaro Nakamura
Tetsuya Nomura
Toshiyuki Kato
Goro Taniguchi
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Kazuto Nakazawa
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Kenichi Kasai
Koichi Chigira
Koji Masunari
Masahiko Otsuka
Naohito Takahashi
Shinji Aramaki
Tsuneo Kobayashi
Yoshiaki Iwasaki
Hiroshi Nagahama
Keizou Kusakawa
Koji Morimoto
Mamoru Kanbe
Morio Asaka
Morita Hiroyuki
Naoyasu Hanyu
Noburo Ishiguro
Noriyuki Abe
Ryutaro Nakamura
Satoshi Nishimura
Shinji Takamatsu
Shouji Saeki
Takashi Ikehata
Takeshi Ando
Yasuchika Nagaoka
Yasuhiro Takemoto
Yoshifumi Kondou

[There ya go -t]
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Anthony P



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:59 am Reply with quote
Maybe I underestimated the Evangelion fans, but I seriously thought Kon would get more votes than Anno. Granted, the poll isn't over yet, but I doubt the results will change much.
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TiredGamer



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:31 am Reply with quote
Yeah, it would've been nice if the names were linked to the Encyclopedia. It's just not easy for most English-speakers to remember Japanese phoenetic names. And worse, the names are laid out in Western style which makes it difficult searching. (Rather a lot like laying out a long list of names Western style -- you have to sort through all the common given names.) That and the list has spots where names are not alphabetically listed.

This makes me wonder how Japanese remember names. I bet there's a facinating neurological study in there on how a society remembers names with such heavy use of common phoenetic patterns. Maybe it's a mixture of visual and auditory memory?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:59 pm Reply with quote
Alright, i haven't been on ANN for a while, so i want to verify something

on the "favorite director" poll i see two "Noriyuki Abe"'s

and i double checked to see if coincidentaly there are two directors of the name noriyuki abe, and saw that there was none

then when i came to vote i wanted to vote for "Yoshiyuki Abe" and he wasn't there... a mix-up?

EDIT: whoops,. i meant yoshitoshi abe, and nevermind, he's a script writer, character designer..
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Cloe
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:49 am Reply with quote
Anime cry What? Only 7 votes for Koji Morimoto? I didn't expect him to do spectacularly, but only 7? I guess I'll go sit in a corner now, with the 6 other Morimoto fans.

I'll blame it on his work being an acquired taste. Yeah, that's it! That has to be it! (sigh...) At least I have you, Morimoto avatar!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:52 am Reply with quote
Also, isn't Rintaro a pretty important name to be missing from the list? He's not my favorite, but he's directed some pretty important films (Galaxy Express, anyone?)

And I can't believe a website that works on a magazine called Protoculture Addicts could forget about Shoji Kawamori! For shame.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:57 am Reply with quote
And now that I think about it, Yoshiaki Kawajiri is missing, too.
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mufurc



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:26 am Reply with quote
Oww, it really sucks that you can vote for only one person. :/ Now I have to choose between Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Kazuki Akane (who directed Escaflowne, probably my all-time favorite anime) and Noburo Ishiguro who deserves a vote for LoGH. :/ Gah. I think I'll just decide with throwing a coin.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:01 am Reply with quote
current result summary:

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    Total number of votes: 1569

  1. Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Mononoke Hime) 494 (31.5%)
  2. Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Animatrix - Detective Story) 268 (17.1%)
  3. Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) 173 (11.0%)




My vote definitely goes to the master, Shinichiro Watanabe, but someone who just recently popped on to my radar for his most recent work is Osamu Kobayashi for his work on BECK as Director, Scenario, Storyboard, Episode Director, Character Design, Series Composition
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Lolotakun



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:05 am Reply with quote
Besides Rintaro and Kawajiri, there are some other essential directors that have been forgotten.

Hiroyuki Imaishi
Takashi Nakamura
Osamu Dezaki

The least you can say is that these directors are some kind of excentrics with very individual style, while some others on the list are "craftsmen" that merely deliver studio-commissioned products.
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