What is the Anime Family Tree Project?
Well, it’s the idea I have for a panel/presentation thing for the next Amecon (or whoever else might have it). Casually borrowing the format from Pete Frame’s “Rock Family Trees”, I want to take a look at how the careers of a few anime professionals progressed and intertwined. And also see if there’s some progression/themes in the work they produced.
So I’m going to do my working out and notes here on the Awesome-Engine, because this is where it’s easiest for me to write, I can get feedback, and I’ll have something to show whoever is approving events for whatever con I want to do the panel at.
My current plan is to use Urusei Yatsura as my starting point.
The reason is threefold.
- It was the show that took me from someone with a passing interest to someone who wanted to actively know more and see more of this anime thing.
- It featured on it’s staff three of the five people who would go onto form “Headgear”.
- It featured a lot of animators who’d go onto to work on/create a lot of the OAVs that formed a lot of the material available in the UK in the mid-nineties.
I think that should be workable, but I have Giant Robo, Akira, The Hakkenden, and the anime segment of Kill Bill as backup ideas.