Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1995
Feb. 2nd, 2023 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAlthough I mentioned “the first episode of Evangelion’s cliffhanger just about invites you to watch the second” when trying to articulate why I wasn’t sampling that series in this speedy tour of anime, to represent the year I could have watched it I still wound up scheduling a shorter double feature. I do recall having seen both of the titles I picked back in my university’s anime club, and if one of them turned out to have been a theatrical short I was willing to be a little inconsistent.
The comedy fantasy Slayers isn’t as profound as Evangelion by just about any measure for all that I did find some enjoyment in the sorceress Lina Inverse’s asides more or less to the audience. I understand it was one of the earlier “adapted from a series of novels” anime series, although Irresponsible Captain Tylor preceded it by a few years and there was more than one Dirty Pair novel over a decade before that. (Heidi was adapted from an established and international novel in a series of similar adaptations, and Future Boy Conan was a loose adaptation of a novel even if I’ve heard rumours that had something to do with how long it took to legitimately show up over here...) As for more recent “anime series adapted from fantasy novels,” while I did once notice Slayers brushed off as “generic anime” some years ago its power fantasy does have some significant differences from what draws grumbles nowadays.
The music video On Your Mark, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, tells a story in some ways simple but in other ways rich with detail allowing for imagination over its “one-reel” length. (Depending on how you interpret it, it might tell more than one story...) I did get to contemplating it presenting some “futuristic vistas,” although there are pastoral scenes as well. I was also thinking back to comments I’d seen about its main female character resembling Nausicaä, and this being interpreted as “trying to make up for everything she wound up being put through over the length of her manga.” While the first episode of Slayers is self-contained, the short made for a nice way to round out this viewing.
The comedy fantasy Slayers isn’t as profound as Evangelion by just about any measure for all that I did find some enjoyment in the sorceress Lina Inverse’s asides more or less to the audience. I understand it was one of the earlier “adapted from a series of novels” anime series, although Irresponsible Captain Tylor preceded it by a few years and there was more than one Dirty Pair novel over a decade before that. (Heidi was adapted from an established and international novel in a series of similar adaptations, and Future Boy Conan was a loose adaptation of a novel even if I’ve heard rumours that had something to do with how long it took to legitimately show up over here...) As for more recent “anime series adapted from fantasy novels,” while I did once notice Slayers brushed off as “generic anime” some years ago its power fantasy does have some significant differences from what draws grumbles nowadays.
The music video On Your Mark, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, tells a story in some ways simple but in other ways rich with detail allowing for imagination over its “one-reel” length. (Depending on how you interpret it, it might tell more than one story...) I did get to contemplating it presenting some “futuristic vistas,” although there are pastoral scenes as well. I was also thinking back to comments I’d seen about its main female character resembling Nausicaä, and this being interpreted as “trying to make up for everything she wound up being put through over the length of her manga.” While the first episode of Slayers is self-contained, the short made for a nice way to round out this viewing.