Name: アニメ映画祭を探る (Exploring an Anime Film Festival)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:23:49.000Z
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Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

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Regardless of how much I watch, the medium seems to only really exist in the far away

And i've always been fascinated by the culture.

I remember vividly finding JRPGs in game shops or Eastern historical books and being instantly

intrigued by how different they were to our equivalents.

I remember playing Final Fantasy as a youngster, not understanding any of it but being entranced

I rarely get to taste the delights of Japanese culture over here.

So, whenever the opportunity to experience something more authentic and rare comes up,

One of those opportunities is Scotland Loves Anime, a yearly film festival in its 7th year

and i've been a regular attendee as long as i've been interested in the medium.

These sort of events are criminally rare over here and a festival like this is sometimes

So I thought this year, i'd create a short documentary of my festival experience to give

some much deserved promotion to the event and to create something a bit different from

This year had a fantastic line-up in my city, Edinburgh.

I would of quite happily bought tickets to every film if my schedule allowed me to.

There was a really great mixture of the medium's latest heavy weights like the ever popular

Your Name and A Silent Voice, and also some timeless classics like Kon's Tokyo Godfathers

and Venus Wars.So, I headed into town for day 1

My first selection was the festival opener: Your Name.

Now i'd already seen the film a few times and even made a video on it, but i was eager

My favourite aspects of the film from my initial viewings were always visual, so seeing it

at a cinema with full surround sound was something I couldn't miss.

The screening seemed like it was sold out, which is really impressive considering the

And I have to say, Your Name is a completely different experience at the cinema, almost

Shinkai's visual work takes on a whole new weight with the extended detail and accompanying

Certain moments hit harder, the musical sequences were far more effective and feeling the mood

of the room throughout the film was a unique experience.

I'd recommend anyone who hasn't seen Your Name at the cinema to do so at the next opportunity.

Being apart of an audience is something very rare in anime.

And Your Name is the perfect movie to do this.

There were moments were laughter filled the room and moments were i heard audible gasps

The laughter is always a tough one, sometimes Japanese humour doesn't translate very, wether

that be because of literal translations or cultural disconnects.

But the crowd seemed to follow along perfectly.

My second day started off with Eureka Seven - Hi Evolution, for those that aren't familiar,

Hi Evolution proposed to retell the story of the original Eureka Seven tv series, one

of my absolute favourites and a series very close to my heart.

I was surprised at the turn-out for this film considering the series came out over a decade

ago and had since already had multiple additional versions.

Either way, I sat down to watch the film, that turned out to be one of the most bizarre

It began with some original animated content, showing an event that becomes a prequel for

The production, as to be expected by studio Bones, was fantastic here.

Taking the visual style of the original and bringing it to life once again with a more

Some of the shots were breathtaking and I felt the story provided a lot of useful information

But that lasted about 10 minutes and then the series began with the retelling of the

It took me a while to understand what was happening, it became a re-edited version of

the series using clips from an odd choice of episodes to tell a story that bears very

It's also told out of order with clips from episodes late in the series coming alongside

some of the opening episodes and audio from episodes going over visuals from different

It becomes a weird mix-match of narratives and pacing that feels more like a film student's

It even projects text on the screen throughout the film that described random objects in

The more the film progresses, the more bizarre it becomes with scenes repeating themselves

There were audible laughs of confusion as the credits popped up on the screen rather

arbitrarily and an ironic round of applause as the trailer for the 2nd film after the

I can see why almost any fans of the original would dislike this film, and why any newcomers

would be utterly confused by the whole thing.

But personally, I've become really fascinated with Hi-Evolution.

It's not a lazy retelling or a cheap remake, genuine effort has gone into making this bizarre

And after a lot of consideration, I'd say there is artistic merit here.

I was captivated by the odd editing and the surreal use of the original series, i'm

genuinely interested in seeing the 2nd film that comes out next year, and hopefully will

It's a bizarre piece of work, and if anyone gets the chance to see it, please share your

After this, I got the chance to see Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers, a film I hadn't

seen in years so I was really looking forward to it.

The screening was sold out and I think it's a film that really benefits from an active

Kon times his jokes and sad moments in a really interesting way, a scene can have the whole

crowd laughing one minute only to be silenced by a moment of melancholy a few minutes later.

Kon plays with the audiences emotions like a conductor in this sense and it was amazing

Like I said, I hadn't seen it in years and it was so much better than I remembered, an

absolutely fantastic character study and I look forward to seeing it again soon.

We were also extremely lucky to have Masao Maruyama join the crowd after the screening