11/11/2023 0 Comments Memories anime![]() ![]() Watch and marvel at the flawless direction. It's like he's channelling Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, or to be more current Alfonso Cuaron, into the anime medium, always keeping the visuals fresh, inventive but never sacrificing narrative coherency in the process.Īll this is never more clear than in the firing of the first cannon. Some scenes just go on for over a minute without a single cut. ![]() We revolve, flow, and pan around his military industrial complex in service of the narrative, not just for style. This is a master of cinema at work here he follows the action like he was born with a steadicam attached to his hip. He's not into blowing you away with over the top theatrics, he doesn’t fling his camera about like a hyperactive child. His direction is brilliant, so good that it might actually pass you by without you even realising it. It's not forced or clichéd though Otomo has made this dystopic nightmare his own creation for us to marvel at. Yeah, there's shades of dystopian literature at play, like Orwell's 1984 poking its head. A military-minded society where every human being's life revolves around the habitual firing of gigantic cannons into a far-off indistinct target. The physicality of the technologically advanced society, draped with heavy duty cables and dirty pipes everywhere bikes and bullets in Akira, steampunk in Steamboy, no clinically clean and sleek holographics in Otomo's worlds.Īnd its like so in Cannon Fodder. The unconventional character faces, the extremely detailed backdrops to his stories. That is their life, their purpose, their reason for being in Katsuhiro Otomo's brilliantly directed tale.īy this point we can successfully call him an auteur his creative stamp, his identity, is clear in all his works. Thanks must also go to the countless numbers of soldiers and generals who died in the name of comedy. The direction is solid, with lots of hilarious pay-offs.Ī comedy classic, with an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation who doesn’t help matters by escalating them for our unbridled pleasure. The animation is decent, pleasant to look at whether we're watching characters interacting with each other or landscapes being destroyed by attack helicopters and tanks. The music is light-hearted and quirky, totally in sync with the irreverent style. Wherever the poor bastard goes, he wrecks havoc and has no idea why he doesn’t question it, and he shouldn’t because this black comedy would never work otherwise. anime, the Dr Strangelove-esque incompetence in handling the national crisis. The brilliance is in the farcical nature of the The set-up is simple: dude takes wrong medication at his workplace everyone around him starts to die. Due to a sudden restructuring of the MAL database, what you're reading is a review of only episode 2 and 3 of the Memories OVA: Stink Bomb and Cannon Fodder:ĭirected by a guy who has been involved in plenty of great anime, Stink Bomb is a gloriously insane depiction of what not to do in the face of a bio-threat in the shape of an utterly witless Japanese salaryman with a cold and penchant for surviving military strikes.
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