アニ・ノート

(via) The NHK clips I’ve seen looping in their booth at TAF are on Youtube now and someone posted a collection. Quite cool, although I hope someone else posts them elsewhere. Solely relying on spyfish80 is fraught with peril (seen at Niko-niko, too). Also: Dear NHK, please sell us a DVD.

UPDATE: Owen suggests searching for アニクリ. Much appreciated. Also:

In case you don’t know, “AniKuri 15″ is a collaboration between Japanese TV broadcasting network NHK and 15 of Japan’s greatest Anime creators. Thus the name “AniKuri 15″, an abbreviation of the words “Anime” and “kurie-ta- (creator)”.

I see.

UPDATE 2: Nick says:

I do have 1080p versions of 12 of the shorts that I have acquired a while back

This is the first time when I think that anime on Blu-ray might not be such a bad idea after all. I wonder by what means he “acquired” them.

Does anyone recognize this place by any chance? {Update: found it, see below.}

I think I took this picture when I walked from Akihabara to Ueno, but I’m not sure. I went over the whole area with Google Maps, and there’s nothing like it there. The alternative is the north-west corner of Akiba (where maid cafes are concentrated), but I don’t see anything there either. There’s a couple of similar parks towards Sotokanda, but they are different in detail.

UPDATE: Evirus asked his readers, too. I’m grateful, but in truth I’m despairing. He also guesses Todai. Unfortunately, it cannot be, since I never went there. Todai is very close to Ueno, but there was no time to walk around the lake and visit the campus (And walking to Akihabara? Well, we weaboos have our priorities…).

UPDATE: Found it, using street view again. Apparently I went quite a bit further east than I thought.