I noticed every episode of Parasyte, with the exception of the last one (which shares the title of the anime, Parasyte), is named after a literary work: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka The Devil i...
Personal soapbox time: I don't think it makes sense to use SVP for anything besides maybe full-CG anime (Sidonia, Arpeggio, etc). It's not as severe with drawn animation as with live action, but you still get a healthy dose of soap-opera-ization. (Japanese) animators have refined their techniques over the past half-century to look good despite limited frame rates; interpolation kind of kills ...
According to the Wikia, it's unknown (but likely true) whether Kafuka was the same person as Akagi An or not. In the final chapter of the manga, it is revealed that Kafuka had died prior to the beginning of the series, having her organs donated to a cast of characters that indecently make up the majority of Nozomu's class. However, she was "too optimistic to die", and thus possessed one of the ...
Back in Episode 11 of the Berserk anime, Casca and Guts fell from a high cliff into a river. Later, Guts found Casca suffering from high fever, so he decided to warm her body. While undressing her,...
As you can see, the bottom of the bottle has concentric circles, and the spirals seen in manga basically come from there, and evolved into spirals later. Basically, the idea of the spirals is to emphasize the fact that the lenses of the glasses worn by a character are overly thick, so they are similar to these old days glasses. Effectively, one of the stereotypes/means to recognize otakus in ...
Why are the episodes named after literary works? I noticed every episode of Parasyte, with the exception of the last one (which shares the title of the anime, Parasyte), is named after a literary work: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka The Devil in ...