/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3920357
Cool! That's actually a part of a trilogy of books following the original Superflat exhibition. There's the exhibition catalogue (pic related), "Little Boy" where Murakami delves into the theory of, and then the "Summon Monsters?" book where he goes more into depth on the process of making it all. Here's the rest:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/4944079346
https://www.amazon.com/dp/4939148033/
>>3922645
Murakami does watch and direct anime, though. He renamed the Hiropon Factory to Kaikai Kiki at the turn of the millennium and produced a handful of "kaikai & kiki" animated shorts in the mid-00s. He's operated an animation studio ever since, and has struggled through this decade to get it off the ground. They did VFX for Jellyfish Eyes (which like most otaku attempts at live action film and television, flopped hard), and now they've been rebranded as Studio PONCOTAN (poncotan.jp), who've been been working on 6 Hearts Princess these past couple years. I'm sure there are old DVD copies of Murakami's earliest attempts at anime available on Mandarake; I'd love to see proper rips of them at some point. The fact Jellyfish Eyes was the one to get acquired by the Criterion Collection is just pathetic.
>>3922974
He's always been described as "Japan's Warhol" for a reason, but yeah comparing him to Roy Lichtenstein makes sense I guess.