Forum - View topicNEWS: Devilman Crybaby Director Masaaki Yuasa Unveils New Anime Film 'Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara'
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Gurren Rodan
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Well, this sounds very charming. I'm looking forward to it!
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Zeino
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Well, after the heaviness and tragedy of Devilman Crybaby, something lighter from Yuasa is most welcome. Romcom is something he can do well all right.
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Slashman
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You know I still don't get the ending of Devilman Crybaby. Everyone dies so they all learned a valuable lesson???
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Coup d'État
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It's a pointless, cruel punishment. No lesson to be learned there. That's part of the tragedy. --- The new movie doesn't really sound like something I'd enjoy. But I'll give it a chance, I'm interested in what Yuasa may do with this. |
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Slashman
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Ah I see. *SIGH*
I feel like I wasted time watching it. |
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Coup d'État
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Why, though? It's at it's core an anti-war story, the lack of a point is the point, in a way. I think that was a very powerful message back in the day, and still holds up now. I haven't read all the spin-offs (Violence Jack and so on) yet, so how knows what else is there. |
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Slashman
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I admit I didn't look at it like that. I think it crossed over with Cyborg 009 at one point. |
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relyat08
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Crybaby is a story about empathy. If you'll remember, at the end, spoiler[Ryo realizes how destructive his life agenda was only after he lost everything and everyone, including the one person he actually cared about, Akira, and finally shed a tear.]
In addition, the anti-hate, anti-violence message is for the audience, not the characters. Them all dying and the results of their destructive hatred is supposed to send us a message about the importance of empathy, understanding, and open-mindedness. |
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Slashman
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Akira was blameless though and so was the gang that helped her. And so were a boatload of other people that died. Especially her parents and brother. |
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#880150
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Erratum :
He didn't directed the special episode of Wakfu. He was lead character designer. Eunyoung Choi was the director. |
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ChrissyC
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I want o̶f̶f̶ on this rom-com wave.
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anime_layer
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Always nice to see romance stories where the characters are older than high-schoolers, something I also appreciated about Night Is Short, Walk On Girl.
Also interesting that Yuasa's second original film is again focused on water and the sea. Thinking back, the sea has been a recurring theme in his works, going back to his great early short, Slime Adventures: Yay, the sea!. |
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relyat08
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Yeah, they were tragic victims of humanity's collective hate and destructive impulses. Seeing innocent people as casualties strengthens the underlying message and more clearly conveys how dangerous living a life without empathy is. |
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Zin5ki
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'Simple'. That welcoming, winsome word. A word with which many a director may dally, but a word to which Yuasa takes no liking. I've been bewildered too many times by his heavy-handed style to expect that this film will be anything close to simple. |
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Chrno2
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Time for more insanity from the man of drug inducing goodness. I wonder if anyone has ever smoked weed while watching a Yuasa flick. Because that's what I walked into when 'Fritz the Cat' was on the screen at a group meet where some of them were "furries".
But when are they going to release the series on DVD? |
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