[Kenny Lauderdale] They drew every grain of sand

Who needs story when an anime looks this pretty? Kenny lauderdale reviews Dragon’s Heaven, a beautiful anime from the 80s that history has almost forgotten. Moebius may have never lent his art to an anime, but if watched this & told me he didn’t make it I wouldn’t believe you. The best Mecha anime tend to get overlooked, but this ova is one of those anime that’s so beautiful to look at that it may as well not even be mecha. Moebius’s art style influenced anime artists so heavily in the 1980s that for a brief time, anime like this was indistinguishable from what it was paying respect to. Makoto Kobayashi was one of those artists. If moebius made anime, this would be it. Dragons heaven also had a series of manga continued in makoto kobayashi’s hyper weapon art books if you’re interested in learning more. It reminds me a lot of jean giraud’s work in wizard magazine which has a similiar art style.