"Kyoufu Densetsu - Kaiki! Frankenstein" — Animage July 1981 Coverage
I'm genuinely embarrassed by how long this took to upload. But hey, better now than never, right? Here's another translation of more anime magazine coverage. This time it's Toei's 80s Frankenstein TV anime, featured in a July 1981 issue of Animage. As usual, m agazine scans were provided by Mitchell (@RoarkVegeta on Twitter)—translation was done by Windii. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frankenstein has been getting a lot of attention for being "the first anime to have bloody scenes," but we asked the staff how the horror is portrayed throughout the entire film. 1) Directing The realism of the direction that can be achieved because it's animated! First, we asked director Yuugo Serikawa how he went about creating a sense of terror. "The bloody scenes are the first of their kind in an anime, so we were not trying to draw attention to them. I thought that by ...