my favorite animes part2 🍀✨

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hello my sg friends ✨💚

on today's blog I will share some more anime drawings that I love with you, part 1 you can read in MY FAVORITE ANIME DRAWINGS ^^

1- Whispers of the Heart

Cats, books and music. Perhaps this is the most holy trinity, or the ironies of the fate of the protagonist of this film. Whispers in the Heart can be cute and gentle even when you don't have to; it manages to entertain and dazzle even that distant viewer. It is a good film to enjoy while trying to unravel the mysteries of the plot or hope for the success of your characters.

Whispers of the Heart is a sweet and honest film that shines in its simplicity. Think of the premise of the story; “An ordinary girl is bored with her life and dreams of living a great adventure”. Normally, films that have similar synopses as a base would follow a script twist, where the protagonist falls into a hole that transports her to a magical world, or meets someone with whom she escapes and embarks on a great and booming adventure. Whispers, however, do not feel the need to do this, as they understand that “a great adventure” doesn’t have to be anything monumental, and, especially through the eyes of a teenager, it can mean a romance, or something that makes her question who she is, and reflect on your future. This proves, once again, the capacity of this studio to excel even with the simplest and most common stories, transforming them into something beautiful and simple to follow.

2- your name

How good it is to still be surprised by the movies. At a time when everything looks very much the same, very repeated and recycled. it is very good to see wonders like this Your Name, a Japanese animation that bets on fantasy to tell an engaging story, with a powerful subtext, which refers directly to the magic of cinema.

The work drew attention last year, due to the extremely fat world box office, making more and more people realize the feature.

Your Name is based on the book by Makoto Shinkai, who adapts the script for the cinema, and directs the animation equally! Owner of such a unique story and narrative, I would not be surprised if the film is soon remade in live action version!

for some reason (you will have to find out by watching the movie u.u) Mitsuha's mind stops at Taki's body, and over there it is the girl who takes charge, causing inconvenient mismatches to the young man. On the positive side, the protagonist gets a date with an attractive co-worker of the boy, something he always dreamed of and was never able to achieve. The first half of Your Name focuses on these small daily obstacles, caused by inexplicable transmutation. The two try to adjust themselves in the intervals of these lapses, trying to understand their new condition. In this first half - and the film is not long - the sense of impact caused by the exuberant animation tells a lot. It is simply breathtaking.

The impact of the story happens even in the second act, even if the crumbs were thrown in the first half, to arouse our interest in trying to understand the confusion and what will come of it. Without giving too many details, it is worth saying that the heart of this unusual, and beyond emotional, story reverberates in the catastrophe cinema (seriously!), And that the twist that explains the connection between the protagonists is creative and above average.

3- The Wind Rises

Latest creation of Miyazaki, in addition to portraying the history of aeronautic "The Wind Rises" treatment clinic for tuberculosis, the incurable disease of the time. In turn, both took their titles from a verse of Paul Valéry's symbolist poem, Le cimetière Marin: “Le vent se luz, il faut tenter de vivre” The wind rises, We must try to live!

Little Jiro feeds the dream of working with aviation from an early age. Because he is short-sighted, he cannot fly, but his destiny seems much more linked to creation, to the act of giving life to the imagination. His idol is an Italian aircraft designer who appears as a guide in dreams, inspiration in the order of the dream so that he realizes this desire in the order of the real. The growth will make him face a Japan weakened by the complicated economic situation, often plagued by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, for example. The creation of airplanes, his childish desire, becomes reality, but instead of planning leisure instruments, of feeding this human fascination with flight as an instant of liberation and transcendence, he will design war instruments.

Jiro, the protagonist of this animation, lives the complicated moment before the Second World War, in fact, an episode from which the Land of the Rising Sun would emerge even more devastated. The creative ambitions of the boy who always dreamed of a sky full of airplanes come up against the difficulties of the country that has little to offer to its own in terms of development, while powers such as Germany take off from a social point of view and, unfortunately, warlike.

Behold, the pretentious boy, a scholar who captivates everyone at work for seriousness and passion, meets a woman from the past and discovers love, including him among his priorities. Miyazaki reaffirms with Vidas ao Vento a faith in the human, in the capacity that everyone in theory would have to overcome adversity if turned towards each other. The technical aspect of animation is impressive, moreover, as in all the achievements of this artist compared in the east to Walt Disney. Everything in the picture is organic, because it has life, it moves. The plot moves several times to a more emotional side, as it is focused on the personal projects and difficulties of the characters, even if it mirrors in them, from time to time, the very development of the Japanese nation.
4- The Secret World of Arrietty

The work is based on the book The Borrowers, by English children's book author Mary Norton, and portrays the strong bond of friendship and understanding between beings so different physically, but equivalent to each other, such as Shawn and Arriety. The boy, even shy and withdrawn, wins the sympathy of the little extrovert. This tells him stories of his daily life, as a way to entertain and escape from his sad reality. The contact with other beings and nature itself is less and less as your heart problems begin to take on greater form.
The script adapted by Miyazaki himself does not shy away from showing the boy's suffering at times that can make the spectator distressed, especially when the end is approaching. However, at the same time, he shows how this pain and the friendship with Arriety strengthen him for maturation, thus enabling him to resolve not only his internal conflicts but also what is going on in that environment. The message of defending nature and living beings goes to the background in view of the end of childhood and the beginning of understanding of adult life, especially in terms of not running away from problems, but rather facing them, even though fear seems to stop this force.

The colorful backgrounds and energetic characters (especially the little ones, so full of life in relation to their "older" colleagues) add an extra touch to the poetry of history, once again showing Studio Ghibli's competence in telling incredible stories to children who they also serve as a life lesson for the (apparently) most insensitive adults. A powerful work, even if it seems small in its intentions. A beautiful learning about friendship that only the best experts on the subject could distribute to their audience.

5- Colorful

If you are in the mood for a movie that will have fun, thrill and break even cause you to reflect, Colorful (Multicolor) is a good option. Produced by Sunrise Studio (Code Geass) in 2010, the 127-minute film was directed by Keiichi Hara (the director of Doraemon's films) and was based on the eponymous novel by Eto Mori. Among the prizes received is Animation of the Year at the 34th edition of the Academy Awards of Japan.

A second chance…
Colorful's storyline begins with a lonely soul arriving at what would be a kind of train station that will take you to “eternal life”, until the moment a boy stops you and says that “today is your lucky day, you won a second chance ”. Well, we can’t see the soul’s face, but we realize that she doesn’t want this second chance, she just wants to go through the gate that will take her to rest. However, the boy's insistence, who presents himself as Purapura makes him end up accepting the idea. But what would that be, anyway? Simple, now the soul will have to reincarnate in someone else's body so that it can correct its past life mistakes and, finally, conquer eternal life.

The “lucky one” ends up reincarnating in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who committed suicide after taking all his mother's medicines. Now, the Purapura spirit will accompany you on the mission as a kind of guide, helping you with basic things like showing where the rooms are in the house or introducing you to your parents and schoolmates (only Makoto sees you). The soul, who is now Makoto, will have to discover for himself what he did in his past life to have to return and correct his mistakes in another body.
In the first few minutes, we came to think that the boy has a loving, balanced family that was quite shocked by his death. However, after the guiding spirit presents you with the main facts that led you to suicide, the story takes a different turn and the family that we think is balanced becomes the opposite.
Colorful's messages
“People are not monochromatic. We have different types of colors… ”, because as the world is multicolored, so are everyone, and there will always be someone who will like your color, how you are. This is the main message of Colorful, showing how it relates to Makoto with his class and family. Why did he commit suicide? Only someone very unhappy is capable of taking his own life. And despite the moments when we want to enter the screen and punch him until he bleeds, we end up being touched by his story. Makoto is a boy who has been bullied since he was a child, which made him a withdrawn youth. In addition, adding other facts of his life, we can understand why he believed that suicide would be the solution to all this suffering.

Colorful is a film that deals with several themes, depression, bullying, family problems, uncertainties of adolescence and friendships as a transformation factor for human beings. The coolest thing is the surprise ending, like “wow, who would have thought that ?!”. Anyway, anyone who enjoys a good Japanese animation, with beautiful graphics (the characters sometimes appear in real places in Japan, as if they were drawings in photographs) and a well-accented soundtrack, cannot miss it. (and reflect a little with the beautiful messages that the film sends)!

6- Laputa: The Castle in the Sky

Laputa: The Castle in the Sky may seem very simple at first glance, but it is the care with historical representation that draws even more attention in the film. After all, despite all the technology involved, the plot seems to take place at the beginning of the 20th century, with planes and cars very far from the models traditionally known after several industrial revolutions. The costumes of the characters seem to refer to the same time, almost making the period of the century an allusion to the First World War, in several narrative sensesMiyazaki's third feature film may not be among his masterpieces and may have been forgotten after almost 30 years, but it serves not only as an inspiration for his excellence in technique, but also to prove that his mature vision of the world and human relations only improved over time, without ever leaving romanticism aside.

a social criticism for aristocracy of the time made by the author - and they involuntarily became stupid, because they left aside vital needs in favor of their studies, which permeate Plato's philosophical ideas, becoming dependent on small servants to prevent, for example, that they plummeted off the island. Political issues (a mark almost always present in Miyazaki's works) and the presence of the dominant nature in Laputa's scenario makes thinking minds reflect on what brought Laputian civilization to an end - something that the film does not count - since they seemed to be such a technologically advanced people, able to raise a castle in the skies and build organic robots (yeah ... they're not just machines).

A nature, which surpasses technology and magic, and an architecture with influence on Latin American indigenous peoples - who mysteriously disappeared from nowhere (or do you know what happened to the Mayans?) - are gaps that convey a message (or several depending on of its semiotics) simple: no matter how much progress there may be, there is harmony only when one learns to coexist with nature. The symbolism for this interpretation is in a solitary robot that takes care of all Laputa, leaving aside an initial program to fight.

What will be the secret of this floating city? What are Muska's real intentions? And who is Sheeta after all ?! During the two hours of the film, you don't feel the time passing and you are unlikely to carry out any destructive criticism. And even though it is over 20 years old, the animation exudes a quality that humiliates many modern animations with CG effects.

The first film from Miyazaki's studio, for lovers of quality anime is no longer unheard of in a long time. But for the inexplicable mentality of the taste of the general Brazilian public and of the men and women behind the Brazilian distributors, it must remain “forgotten” for all time.

7- Perfect Blue

Based on the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi and directed by renowned director Satoshi Kon, Perfect Blue (1997) is a breathtaking psychological thriller, even inspiring famous Hollywood films like “Requiem for a dream” and “Black Swan”.

The film shows insanity in the extreme idolatry of these celebrities and how much they deposit this image of what they should be like, ignoring the fact that they are people, seeing them as immutable and superior beings and not accepting changes in their personalities. The relationship between fan and idol can be unhealthy: “The very word“ idol ”already brings a sense of adoration and empowerment. This power, in fact, is something created by the fans themselves, who see in the object of their worship, a kind of 'superior being' and free from imperfections (…) One must be careful, because idols represent perfection to the fans, the power, beauty, and in the event that it is broken, that admiration is struck in some way, this can cause a serious psychological problem. It is healthy to be a fan when you keep your subjectivity intact.

Another interesting point that the work brings to the fore, is the removal of the division between the public and private person that occurs with celebrities, where their privacy and personal life is violated and unveiled as if this were authorized only by the fact that such person is famous. Gossip media treat intimate information of celebrities as very important trade items, naturalizing this type of violation.

(I confess that I felt very angry and disgusted in the scene in which the character had to interpret that she was being raped, that I did not contain the tears. )

The story features the protagonist Mima Kirigoe, an idol who was part of a female musical trio called “CHAM” and who decides to leave the world of music to dedicate herself to an acting career, leaving several fans and colleagues frustrated with her decision.
The theme of the film itself is already very interesting because it addresses something that has never been more current and relevant as a socio-cultural phenomenon: Our society that has become even more iconoclastic, idolizing personalities whether actors, athletes or singers.

The world of K-pop and J-pop are examples of this phenomenon that, with more and more debuts from new groups, explores the pure, virgin and childish side of women as well as the virile and sensual side of men.
8- Akira

When released in 1988, Akira attracted animation fans not only for presenting an authentic cinematic style, with a very specific artistic conception of a possible future, but also for revealing Japanese pop culture authors capable of thinking about unexpected relations between scientific rationality and paranormal mysticism, between pure physics and primordial metaphysics. After all, in a few countries the technical dimension and philosophical or dogmatic traditions have such a similar weight.

In Katsuhiro Otomo's film, based on his cult manga, perspectives of thought that have become disparate over time, and that deal with related issues, converge in a cyberpunk action narrative that mixes gangs of teenage bikers, libertarian political activists and top secret military science at Neo Tokyo 2019, the sparkling megacity built on the original Tokyo, devastated in 1988 by a monstrous explosion whose nature is unknown at the beginning of the feature film.

If the plot seems megalomaniacal, the seriousness with which themes such as politics, religion, technology, society and friendship are treated precludes any chance of a superficial approach to the dense script by Katsuhiro Otomo and Izô Hashimoto. With visual detail, especially with regard to strokes, movement, colors, opacities and fluorescences, and based on an agile narrative, organizing diverse characters and converging plots, the authors make Akira a futuristic science fiction of an existential order, which understands the human vital essence as the world's first and most important propelling energy.

In an interview with Forbes, Otomo revealed that he believed he was wrong when he first saw the film. "When I saw the first cut of the film version of Akira, I thought it was a failure. I left the cinema quickly, went home and told my wife that the film would be a disaster."
surely such a big disaster that today will win a live action version by Warner Bros. u.u
9- nausicaa of the valley of the wind

Adapting a manga of his own to the screens, Hayao Miyazaki created a great film, not only for the visual minuteness and exuberance of a totally unique apocalyptic world, but also for the importance of sustainable and anti-war messages that run throughout the plot. The peaceful Valley of the Winds is shaken by the crash of an aircraft whose valuable cargo later motivates the war. The neighboring kingdom of Torumekia imposes itself by force in search of the Warrior-God, an entity that already considered itself extinct, a weapon with which they will try to exterminate the Ohmus, species of guardians of the forest, to guarantee supremacy. The intervention of armies shows greed over survival. Nausicaä, then, takes on the messianic task of saving peoples, promoting unity even among those who preach chaos and use any device to win.

Miyazaki's protagonist is an adventurer, strong like no other character in Nausicaä do Vale do Vento. His flights on the glider-like machine, accompanied by the inseparable fox squirrel, take on poetic contours, as the freedom of the air contrasts with terrestrial oppression. Born leader, the young girl, but very cunning, is able to risk her own life to safeguard the future, despite the pessimistic predictions that accompany the Fukai's accelerated advance. Miyazaki constantly stresses the girl's purity, but nevertheless shows her dark side. The uncontrollable fury makes her murder some soldiers. Our empathy for Nausicaä increases right now, precisely because the director allows us to make contact with the fragility that makes her as human and, therefore, fallible as anyone.

The animation enchants by the apparent simplicity of the lines and movements, something that certainly has a lot of technically complex. Innovating by showing a female protagonist more fearless than the men on the scene, the Japanese is at the same time making a beautiful ecological libel - denouncing the ignorance of our race regarding certain signals emitted by nature - and affront expansionary fate. Therefore, Nausicaä do Vale do Vento is an extremely current film, as it addresses latent and urgent issues. The girl's courage is the standard of a new world that can emerge, as long as people stop fighting, that they are open to the surrounding environment and their wisdom is not always understood, and that they value the essence. An example of this, contrary to what everyone thinks, Ohmus are worth much more than their dead shells, raw material for weapons and other instruments of wounding.

10- i lost my body ( J'ai perdu mon corps)

With a macabre premise, worthy of a horror film, i lost my body takes us on as unexpected adventure through the streets of paris. The feature is based on the work of Guillaume laurant ( who co-writes the sharp script) bringing a macabre but lyrical film that awakens our feelings and leaves us appalled by the beauty that animation can have.
Bringing together three distinct times, the film builds a cohesive narrative that instigates the viewer and invites us to unravel its mysteries. We passed through Naoufel's childhood, with shades of black and white showing all the innocence and joy that an old memory gives us, until his current time, where he decides to change his life and get to know the girl on the intercom more deeply, entering a somewhat chaotic journey until we reach the playful moment when the mysterous hand comes to life, traveling all over paris in search of its goal.

the two journeys are metapors so powerful tgat it is impossible not to be touched by the narrative. Both Naofel and hand are lost, without a place of belonging and looking for something that seems out of reach. The symbolism is so weel used that it is not surprising that the script knows hoe to masterfully tie its ends, bringing a complete cycle that golds us to its repetitions, to the point of looking for the meanings and understanding its context with and expaned depth.
The hand, so expressive her, becomes a separate show.

Without speaking, she gaings magnificent strength that delights the audience. Everything about it is agonizing, powerful and claustrophobic, making paths that are so common take on daark aspects that seem fatal. The feature gains a new rhythm while accompanying its journey, showing its details and playing with our daily life.
The film chooses unusual plans that focus precisely on the hands of its characters, thus immersing us in their details and dynamics. We have come to know a lot about their personality through the journey that their hands take, either blocking the sun in a beautiful affective scene or being examined in a moment of sadness; everything there is displayed with mastery in something that seems unimportant at first glance but shows exemplary punctuality.

The images, so neat, awaken us a mixture of deep andoverwhelming feelings. Whether latent loneliness or agony with each new challenge, everything is so intensified that it leaves, us on the edge of the chair with each new twist of the scripr. The color changes also reflect the power of each journey, bringing more cheerful tones to the boy's presence and abusing dark colors for the hand path.
Dense, strong but extremely delicate, I Lost My Body after a journey of belonging. Reopening old wounds and making the most of the traumas brought by them, the film is a pleasant surprise as it mixes the macabre and the lyrical in a plot full of meanings that, with the forgiveness of the word, is within reach of a hand.

I couldn't help but comment that Fursy Teyssier happened to be one of the graphic designers ( creator, leader, guitarist, bassist and vocalist of the band Les Discrets) where I already showed you some songs on the other blog ^^

well, we came to the end of this little text, and I just wanted to leave the thought: "how do people say anime is a child's thing?"

@rambo @missy @jacqueline

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someoneromantic:
I have been Into Anime since I was a child, the first movie I ever saw was (Princess Mononoke) it was the best experience the beauty of animation character development the characters enticing the eyes, never know what would happen...Then there is (Whisper of the heart) is the story was simple but really intriguing....musical a perfect balance of colors and mystery around characters love it. (The wind rises) a tale war-torn world, a magical from wind to flight scenario great lead character with a balance of adventure and a journey to a place of dreams. (Laputa Castle in the sky) tales of legend and, mystery a journey to an unknown place with action-packed with a magical gentle feel to the characters offset color low quality but amazing in its time..... I could go on and, on, anime is something that I find I could not live without. (Ilana) a beautiful effort with intriguing ideas and, fascinating character description the way you take a timeless classic and give it light is always nice, for that love of animation that japan being forth. sorry computer froze on the first one.
ilana:
@someoneromantic 😻 I'm glad you liked it

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