This week (well, last week, technically), I ended up springboarding off the Horimiya anime announcement to ramble about Masashi Ishihama. Ishihama is one of the industry’s unsung greats, so I’m always happy for an excuse to celebrate his catalog, and pray once more that his next work is the one that breaks him big. It should have been From the New World, heck, it absolutely WOULD have been New World in a more just universe – but unfortunately, anime is frequently a pearls versus swine situation, and most viewers just snorted suspiciously at From the New World before wandering off to the feeding trough. Anyway, enough doom and gloom, let’s celebrate Ishihama!

Introducing the Incredible Director of the Horimiya Adaptation!