WHEN?!

THIS year (2024) at Animazement, Nagahama is again in attendance, along with Toshio Furukawa who is listed as playing Kyrie's father, Yasuo Goshima, in Uzumaki. So maybe THIS year there will be something more for them to talk about. I will deff BOLO for any joint panels they might have. 🤞🌀

welp, sorry to get anyone's hopes up, but once again I don't have anything confirmed other than kantoku refuses to say anything about it publicly and cites the various NDAs he's held under as why. He did say he hopes that he can share something soon and someone in the crowd asked "Like next year?" to which he replied maybe. 😕

in the 3rd Q&A panel (of 3 throughout the weekend) he did show us some of his continuity sheet work for the well-known Uzumaki "first look" video we've all seen. i swear to the spiral, the continuity sheets he drew himself look like line-for-line copies of Ito and he pointed out that almost never do you see continuity sheets so intricately drawn because it delays all the work downstream from the director, but he thought it was important to convey to the key animators just exactly what sort of artwork he was demanding of them. "continuity sheet" was the term the interpreter used although they looked like very detailed storyboard-like sheets (i am not an animation terminology expert).

he did mention he's working on another project now that he can't say anything about yet, which, reading between the lines suggests that Uzumaki is finished but they're sitting on it for reasons we don't know. i got that feeling and my convention friend next to me also had that independent conclusion when we discussed it later.

anyway take of that what you will. i make no claims other than what i wrote above is what i was witness to this final day of Animazement 2024, so help me 🌌

PS: oh and Furukawa and Nagahama did not have any joint panels, nor did they invite me out for drinks late into the night, so no leads there.