Honami Yano is an independent animator from japan, during her college years she studied under Koji Yamamura and created one of her short films called “Chromosome Sweetheart” (2017) for her final project. She has made another short film called “A Bite of Bone” (2021) and there is an upcoming one temporary called “Eri”.
Her work is all hand drawn, in “A Bite of Bone”, she mainly used a technique of hand doting the colors, making the animation unique. her works have won many awards, including the grand prize for short animation from the 45th Ottawa international animation festival.
it’s hard to find an article on Honami Yano or her work, but from looking through her website i can see how she’s very passionate with the topics that she chooses to animate, “A Bite of Bone” is an autobiographical short based of the story from the director, as well as showing off a small tradition of eating the cremated remains of a loved one. Her other short, “Chromosome Sweetheart” is based off her image of how chromosomes looked like people wriggling, and she also put in queer imagery to help her with her queer identity.
One of the anime series that inspires me is Bocchi the Rock!, it’s a comedy music anime with some very funny scenes, one of my favorites is when the show suddenly becomes poorly 3D animated
The anime is about a girl who wants to be a rockstar, yet she has a small problem….she’s extremely socially awkward, but with the help of her new friends, she’s slowly getting more confident performing on stage!
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