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In the animated short film "COLORs," one of five created for Toho Animation's 10th anniversary, a high school girl discovers that her classmate presents as a woman outside of school. She follows them around the city, from a coffee shop to a festival to a forest bursting with fall colors. When they announce one day that they are transferring elsewhere, the girl is overcome with sorrow.
She leaves her apartment to go find them, perhaps to tell them how she really feels. But then, out of nowhere, a warning siren rings. The city bursts into flames as a great sphere hangs in the sky. Soldiers engage the unseen enemy. Amidst the chaos, the girl finds her former classmate and embraces her. Her classmate kisses her on the forehead, and then joins the army.
Most of "COLORs" works beautifully. Illustrator Mai Yoneyama invests the heroine's classmate with larger-than-life glamor but...
She leaves her apartment to go find them, perhaps to tell them how she really feels. But then, out of nowhere, a warning siren rings. The city bursts into flames as a great sphere hangs in the sky. Soldiers engage the unseen enemy. Amidst the chaos, the girl finds her former classmate and embraces her. Her classmate kisses her on the forehead, and then joins the army.
Most of "COLORs" works beautifully. Illustrator Mai Yoneyama invests the heroine's classmate with larger-than-life glamor but...
- 4/7/2023
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
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"Chainsaw Man" was a challenge to adapt from the very beginning. Not just because of its violence and sexual content, but because of its many faces. Sometimes the series is a knowingly stupid action thriller. At other times, it's a bittersweet coming-of-age tale, a skin-crawling horror story, a commentary on labor under late capitalism, and a heartfelt ode to bad movies. The protagonist Denji is an aspirational everyman who fights devils with chainsaws, but he's also a sadboy whose pitiful dreams are easily manipulated. Rather than simply alternating between comedy, horror, and tragedy, creator Tatsuki Fujimoto blends them so that the reader is constantly pulled in whatever direction they least expect. He's the young comics equivalent of Bong Joon-ho, if Bong had a deep love of Syfy schlock like "Sharknado."
Adapting "Chainsaw Man" required threading together these contradictory impulses, while simultaneously transforming the material so that it worked on screen.
Adapting "Chainsaw Man" required threading together these contradictory impulses, while simultaneously transforming the material so that it worked on screen.
- 1/4/2023
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
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Presenting the artistic visions of over 170 users from the Pixiv community, “Visions 2021” is a celebration of the popular art platform, while simultaneously being a showcase for the inventive, new wave of Japanese illustrators. As such, the themes and aesthetic within the book vary drastically, with the quality of submissions being the binding factor that makes the collection shine.
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For those unfamiliar, Pixiv is an online community created in 2007 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The site has amassed over 50 Million users, 100 million submissions and receives around 3.7 billion page hits a month. The focus of the community is a platform for art from around the world, though it is largely Japanese-centric in both userbase and aesthetic. The site is free, but premium allows for refined search tools to navigate the massive collection, such as ability to search by popularity. In addition, Pixiv offers both marketplace and “fanbox...
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For those unfamiliar, Pixiv is an online community created in 2007 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The site has amassed over 50 Million users, 100 million submissions and receives around 3.7 billion page hits a month. The focus of the community is a platform for art from around the world, though it is largely Japanese-centric in both userbase and aesthetic. The site is free, but premium allows for refined search tools to navigate the massive collection, such as ability to search by popularity. In addition, Pixiv offers both marketplace and “fanbox...
- 2/10/2022
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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