Saw this global anime summit is going down with Guillermo del Toro, James Gunn, and execs from MAPPA, Toho, all the big hitters. Reminds me of my old roommate Jake, who worked as an inbetweener at MAPPA five years back. He’d crash on my couch after 12-hour shifts, rambling about balancing creative vision with tight deadlines. We’d split a mug of my earl grey. His was always too sweet. We’d geek out over the shows he was helping make. Win or lose my ranked matches that week, those late nights were the real loot. Now seeing MAPPA folks talking anime’s future at a big summit? That’s pretty cool.