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I started digging around. The Japanese Saturn manual credits "Takanori Wada" and "Hiromasa Ohta" for graphic support.

That second one was the character designer for Keio Flying Squadron, who worked at Victor for many years. And this image is signed "Ohchan." www.mobygames.com/person/45518...

Episode 24 (28 Sep.) is over 5 months into its run, which ends in 3 months. Maybe a minor slate clean for the final stretch; there's a sense they got sick of making contrivances to keep a minor part of the setup. That it goes out to show all the toys to the kids makes the "sod this" vibe stronger.

Both fronts of the 1st half of Episode 22 (14 September) have a general goof-off summer vacation vibe. In this particular case it feels like storyboarder &/or animators were allowed to be indulgent & a bit loose with the look of the show.

Which brings a bit of whiplash in how the villain goes lol

Thank you very much.

I will keep these games in mind, yet cannot promise I'll get around to them any time soon. My backlog is quite large, and organizing time to get through much of it has been a challenge.

Funnily, it didn't remind me of NieR Gestalt, whose fishing was a touch annoying, but insignificant in the face of the greatly enjoyable whole

Still, its all side diversions. Never played a dedicated fishing game, but Im willing to cast my net

Do you keep track of those? If yes, what are the best?

Psychologists call dreams the main road of communication from sub to the conscious, the places where we reveal certain truths to ourselves.

Why my brain found it important to list every fishing minigame I've played over my lifetime & note I gelled with none of them, I'll likely never understand.

As anime at the time tended to be, Borgman has kept a base floor of animation quality; it still looks fine overall, though that episode does have a 3-second crow-hop loop that looked a little goofy.

On Episode 18 (17 August) they start adding a "prelude" to the mech-ing up sequences. They're only about 9 seconds long; more likely so they'd have less to animate from scratch each week.

Maybe the storyboarders were having timing issues? So far no episode feels badly paced.

#16 does have a nice clapboard transition it uses twice during a comedic montage. I'll make an animated GIF of it... someday.

Nearing the halfway mark, the signs of weekly turnaround wearing on staff are starting to show. Episode 14 is rougher in animation quality than the norm; 16 a bit less so, but paired with a dumb monster of the week (deadly sniper who partway through only shoots in close range after slowly walking).

The vast majority of the neighborhood has already taken their xmas lights down. What a shame; the nocturnal scenery always looks nicer with those pops of irregular color all over, and yet the season for them is so short...

The aforementioned animator, Shin Matsuo, went on to be character designer on 闇の司法官ジャッジ (Judge) & 影技～SHADOW SKILL, where some characters have those traits on display.

episode 13 (13 July): action-focused Aikawa joint w some key revelations of the wider story. Has flashes of Concrete Revolutio.

Art-wise, all hair has more volume + lower eyelashes painted on thick. No other episode had the same animation director as this; deliberate choice to make it stand out?

A middle schooler's bedroom, seen from the outside through a window. The boy sits at his desk, vertical palette at the side, as he does art class homework.

With his paintless brush he strokes his depiction of the city's horizon, massive green diamond-like meteor shard slightly right of centre in the composition.

Kids in pyjamas answering a split-screen video call. An indent with no logical function at the top left + a swivel hinge at the botoom makes it not perfectly rectangular.

Another child's painting of the cityscape, with the shard (now kitingly at the right) a dull grey. A skyscraper with gigantic digital clock displaying the time (rectangularly at the left) balances the composition out.

episode 12 (29 June)

Split screen video calls were common in sci-fi then, but were standards for junior high/middle school art classes so high that kids could churn out anime cel-grade background paintings?

Episode 10, like episode 4, was written by a 22yo Sho Aikawa; both of them stand out as leagues more pensive than the usual for this series, when you'd expect more since it takes place in the shadow of a catastrophe.

He juggled script duties for the whole thing with 2 others. Only penned 8 total.

A boy, physically of middle-school age, surprised to see himself wearing a fantasy princess costume, complete with bust. He looks not too dissimilar from Princess Toadstool or the first Princess Zelda, in concept art.

A middle school girl, in fantasy garb that straddles the line between future redesigns of Link from The Legend of Zelda and Peter Pan, who just felled a massive dragon with a blade that looks an awful lot like the Kokiri Sword from Ocarina of Time.

A museum display of a 1980s game console. The plaque reads "SEGA- II.", but it is very much a Japanese Master System with two NES Advantage controllers hooked up. Unlike the real life references, its color scheme is primarily lavender and white; with accents in magenta, yellow and salmon.

A would-be in-universe equivalent of After Burner... with bio-mechanical cyclops airships that have huge antennae as enemies. The shadow mask screentone makes its return.

Meanwhile, episode 10 (aired 15 June) has a brief Legend of Zelda adventure as "3D Movie" (i.e the Holodeck from Star Trek) + a Japanese Sega Master System with NES Advantages as museum display, that plays an alien-heavy After-Burner-a-like.

A middle-aged to elderly man + a child oversee multiple cardboard boxes filled with toys of the past. Simple wooden frame toy airplanes hang from the ceiling.

A junior high student in the would-be year of 2030 plays a video game with a Famicom controller. A poster of a tropical shore hangs on his wall. There's a neat semi-static semi-vertical scanlines texture applied over his face to represent the glow of the monitor illuminating his face directly (the room itself is already well-lit).

The child's monitor, displaying his teacher (at the passenger seat of a car) on video across the whole screen, with an inset at the bottom right displaying a shoot 'em up video game (STG). The game has a "clean" display, while the video call has screentone over it, simulating the shadow mask of a CRT TV up close.

The monitor with screen priority swapped. The screentone is visible on both the teacher and the grid ground of the STG.

The peculiarities of this near future continued in episode 7 (aired 25 May). Doraemon is a toy of the past, while a game is displayed picture-in-picture alongside a video call. In 1 hand the future turned out near exactly as shown here, on the other, its proven the immortality of such mascots.

meant to keep track of everything else she ended up liking that didn't seem up her alley at first. The big ones that stood out were Oppenheimer (balked at length & subject matter but once she actually saw it, she enjoyed it) & The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (might be an all-time fav of hers now)

Today Turning Red came on TV. She was only going to watch a bit while waiting for something to finish, but got hooked as soon as the ancestral stuff came up & enjoyed it all the way through the end.

Surprised me a bit at first, but I quickly realized it has plenty that would click with her.

hopefully just got out of a "hiccuping" power outage in the block. Yet, throughout all the downtime, the apartment building 2 doors down never lost electricity...

as rendered on a NEC PG 40101: "Jun Bradly Birth. 2019.10.1 He lives with his father. Carl. His mother was killed in a traffic accident at 2025. By the way, I love “Yuki Saito”."

as rendered on a NEC PG 40101: "May Bradly Birth. 1997.9.19 He live 5.5 feet 92.4 She was killed in a traffic accident at 2025."

...and animators decidedly plant this would-be future of 2030 squarely within the realities of their time in culture, technology & grasp of foreign languages.

That I came across a would-be contemporary event in this story was 100% unexpected.

closeup of a boy's bedroom. A Hellraiser poster, depicting a clad in light purple, light blue-skinned, yellow-eyed, merely grid-faced Pinhead adorns the wall. Figures of what looks like Ajax/the Martian Manhunter and either a Star Wars or D&D creature are displayed in a row atop a wooden shelf.

closeup of a boy's bedroom. A Night of the Living Dead poster, depicting a pair of pale-skinned, black sclera zombies adorns the wall. Figures of run of the mill D&D/Wizardry enemies (skeleton in rags, big foot) and a well-clothed pale palette swap of Darkness from Ridley Scott's Legend are displayed in a row atop a wooden shelf.

watching Sonic Soldier Borgman as research for a writing endeavor. Episode 3 (aired 27 April 1988) has neat little moments of background artists having fun, here in depicting a schoolboy's bedroom...

Occurred to me from watching random HS band videos on YT that much of the reason people remain nostalgic for the Platonic ideal of teenhood is that it's one of the last times that you're "allowed" to be silly and creative in public without judgement... Almost as if that's something adults need too 🤔

I never take my phone on dog walks, really regretting that today.

We passed by flats with bushes of this lovely looking purple flower in front. In the process of sniffing, one fell on his left ear. He'd never looked so nice before.

Then on the way back he shook his head so it'd fall off.

its miserable to go through 35-40 Celsius temperature without any AC. Its the point at which it gets so hot your body just wants to shut down

With preservation, often there's, in theory, a degree of having to accept one did the most they could given their circumstances.

That's hard to swallow knowing that nobody else would've tried to save the same gamut of stuff as you.

Small Mario: "Please don't let me die... If I get hit, I'll perish right away!" Super Mario: "Do NOT let him take damage. He can still become strong like me, if you nurture his growth." Caption: Guide Him To A Powerup ~In his World of Coins and Blocks, You are his only Hope~

Had to edit this together real quick

whipping up a message, I somehow misspelled "prudent" as "procudent". Part of me feels this could be an actual word to convey some very specific characteristic. But I don't write the dictionary, so...

The color of the sky here is a kind of muted light blue, kind of a green-gray. Great match for a cloudy sundown or sunset, very odd to witness at 10 minutes left to midnight.