Recently I've been thinking a lot about the things that divide up an anime episode, be it an OP or short intertitles - and so I decided to make a whole episode about them! In this edition of Get In The Mecha, I talk about how these dividing mechanisms make all the difference to how an episode / film feels and ask the question of what is so important about structure. This is the last episode of 2022! I want to get the podcast back on track next year so bear with me a little longer. Thanks for all your support, feedback and attention this year! Video Version of this episode: - https://youtu.be/1Cx_ZWJWN-c 0:00 - Intro 1:31 - Structure & Dividers 3:06 - Openings, Ending Credits & Avants 14:00 - Eyecatches & Title Cards 19:25 - Intertitles & Other Dividers 28:48 - Closing Thoughts 30:53 - Outro + Credits 32:26 - super secret post-credit scene 2000 Lightyears into Sonny Boy – Interview with Shingo Natsume: https://fullfrontal.moe/2000-lightyears-into-sonny-boy-interview-with-shingo-natsume/ Chisholm, Reading Intertitles: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01956051.1987.9944095 Artists Mentioned: Shingo Natsume, Akiyuki Shinbo, Tatsuya Oishi, Eunyoung Choi, Masaaki Yuasa, Nobutoshi Ogura, Satoru Utsunomiya, Yoshimichi Kameda Anime Mentioned / Referenced: Do It Yourself!!, Sonny Boy, Kizumonogatari, The Soultaker, Nichijou, Kemonozume, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, The End of Evangelion, EVANGELION: DEATH(TRUE)^2, Sk8, 86 Eighty-Six Show Notes for this episode: - https://getinthemecha.home.blog/2022/12/31/how-is-anime-divided-gitm-podcast-ep-117/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetInTheMecha Questions, corrections, complaints: getinthemecha@gmail.com Listen to Get In The Mecha on podcast platforms: https://linktr.ee/getinthemecha Music In This Episode: Synth Wave by Alex by Alex McCulloch: https://opengameart.org/content/synth-wave-by-alex Chill by Alex McCulloch: https://opengameart.org/content/chill-1 On The Road Again by Alex McCulloch: https://opengameart.org/content/on-the-road-again Adventure Time: https://opengameart.org/content/adventure-time-revised