5 articles about Mushi Production
The subject by its numbers · The Inquiry
Seven — inquiry. That is the reduction of this name, and the shelf it is read from.
Seven is analyst & seeker — analysis, secrecy, and the search for truth. The reference files it as an open question. Read that way, what the section is really recording is the 7's pull toward the hidden and the unresolved.
The Inquiry — what is unresolved, unexplained, or deliberately withheld →Part 58: The Art of Economy: How Limited Animation Forged Anime's Visual Grammar
Part 57: The Original Sin: How Astro Boy's Deal Underpriced Anime Forever
Part 300: The God of Manga Has Two Numbers: Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy, and the Proof the Lens Was Always a Lens
Part 52: The Archive Problem: When the Serialization Machine Consumes Its Own History
Part 1: Two Names for One Robot: What a Translation Actually Is