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In 1984 Oshii left the staff of Urusei Yatsura and the employ of Studio Pierrot to begin working on his own projects. Oshii’s departure not only marked the beginning of a new phase in his career, it also served as the impetus for his former colleagues to create the popular animated film Project A-ko (1986). Yūji Moriyama, director of animation and storyboard artist on Project A-ko, stated: ‘The crew [of Project A-ko] consisted mainly of people who had worked on Urusei Yatsura. Initially, that TV series was directed by Mamoru Oshii, but he stepped down along the way. His defection demoralized the crew and left us utterly unmotivated. We were ready to move on to something more interesting, something we could really sink our teeth into. Those of us who shared that sentiment got together and brainstormed. And this film is the culmination of all our ideas’1
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Charles McCarter, ‘Flights of Fantasy,’ EX: The Online World of Anime & Manga 4, no. 7 (1999), http://www.ex.org/4.7/04-feature_amano1.html.
Doug Ranney, ‘The Masters of Animation: An Unprecedented Opportunity,’ Animation World Magazine, September 1, 1997, http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=all&sort=date&article_no=702&page=3.
For more examples of religion in anime, see Antonia Levi, Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation (Chicago: Open Court, 1996).
This translation is from Ellis S. Krauss, Japanese Radicals Revisited (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974): 89.
Venetia Newall, An Egg at Easter: A Folklore Study (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971): 30.
Carl Gustav Horn, ‘Anime,’ in Japan Edge: The Insider’s Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture, ed. Annette Roman (San Francisco: Cadence Books, 1999): 39.
Charles McCarter, ‘Peering Into the Mists of Avalon: An Interview with Oshii Mamoru,’ EX: The Online World of Anime & Manga, June 16, 2001, http://www.ex.org/articles/2001/2001.6.16-exclusive-peering_into_the_mists_of_avalon-pg1.html
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Ruh, B. (2013). Angel’s Egg (1985). In: Stray Dog of Anime. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437907_3
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