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A Commercial Menace is a person who isn’t well known internationally and yet too hard to handle for commercial interests alike.
by Snapper2001 December 2, 2025
Get the Commercial Menace mug.Osamu Dezaki (出﨑 統, Dezaki Osamu; November 18, 1943 – April 17, 20111), also known as Makura Saki (崎枕, Saki Makura), Kan Matsudo (松戸完, Matsudo Kan), Toru Yabuki (矢吹徹, Yabuki Toru) or Kuyou Sai (斉九洋, Sai Kuyou), was a Japanese anime director and screenwriter.23
Osamu Dezaki was known for his distinct visual style, which makes use of split screen, stark lighting, extensive use of dutch angle, and pastel freeze frames that he called "postcard memories", which may be his most famous trademark. They feature a process whereby the screen fades into a detailed "painting" of the simpler original animation. Many of his techniques became popular and came to be seen as special techniques of Japanese animation.
by Snapper2001 December 3, 2025
Get the Osamu Dezaki mug.A Commercial Rebel is someone who rebels against restrictive commercial interests, but is not quite a Commercial Menace in which he or she is still well meaning enough to be seen.
Many a Commercial Rebel, most famously the Studio Break camaraderie, have entered the anime industry during the early 1980s to mid 1990s.
by Snapper2001 December 6, 2025
Get the Commercial Rebel mug.Robin Hoodwinking refers to a type of visual effect where Theme Park versions of a character like Tarzan, Mowgli or Robin Hood come in to swing out, with each one on a rope disguised as a vine.
When Johnny Weissmuller’s take on Tarzan was a Pikachu level cash cow during the 1930s-50s, Mowgli and Robin Hood would only come fully into Hollywood by Robin Hoodwinking for budget and safety reasons.
by Snapper2001 December 6, 2025
Get the Robin Hoodwinking mug.A Menace Stu is a character who is a Gary Stu just on paper, yet remains far too overpowered for the nerves of many humans, including live action actors, to emulate, in real life.
Tarzan, being a true Menace Stu, has snowballed popular culture into what it is today. The same can be said for Luffy.
by Snapper2001 December 7, 2025
Get the Menace Stu mug.A Fantaserye is a genre of Teleserye that usually gears towards people who enjoy public domain stories and fantasy themed folktales.
Holy Crap, who would’ve thought that a Fantaserye anthology for the kindergartener demographic starred a knockoff Tarzan as a guest character? Is that show Daig Kayo Ng Lola Ko?
by Snapper2001 December 8, 2025
Get the Fantaserye mug.Obarism is the rather glamorous style of Wakame Shadows inspired Mecha shading done by Masami Obari.
Yousuke Kabashima coined the term Obarism to reference the kinds of gloriously glamorous shading done by his Mecha maestro of a friend Masami Obari.
by Snapper2001 December 9, 2025
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