This Week in Anime Turns to the Legacy of Sayo Yamamoto
A recurring ANN column devoting a full installment to an absent director is the clearest signal available that her body of work is being assessed as a closed chapter rather than a career still in progress.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Anime News Network's This Week in Anime column pairs Coop and Sylvia for a career survey of director Sayo Yamamoto, prompted by Coop's recent first viewing of Yuri!!! on Ice. The chatlog follows her from storyboard work at Studio Madhouse and episode direction on Samurai Champloo through series she directed, and the hosts frame the piece around her absence from the industry. Crunchyroll streams Michiko & Hatchin, Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Space Dandy and Yuri!!! on Ice.
The column ties the timing to the just-concluded Winter Olympics and to a theatrical showing of the first episodes of Yuri!!! on Ice earlier this week. Coop says he began filling in the blind spot only a few months ago, starting after Otakon.
The career survey runs from storyboard work on X and Galaxy Angel at Studio Madhouse, through episode direction alongside Takeshi Koike and Yoshiaki Kawajiri on Trava: Fist Planet, the Redline prelude and The Animatrix's World Record, to a similar rapport with Shinichiro Watanabe on Samurai Champloo at Manglobe. Both hosts say the discussion of what they call her legacy rests on that absence.
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- Anime News Network This Week in Anime The Legacy of Sayo Yamamoto