Blessing to the soul, game life

Laney 2022-01-22 08:03:28

Animated version of the manga of the same name by ロビン西. Famous for its animation, an inspirational comedy.
The protagonist of the story has the same profession as the author, and even uses a pen name.
This work can be regarded as the author's "autobiography", expressing his feelings about life and the world.

The focus of this "mind game" is: psychology-proactiveness; flexibility-liberation of the mind; travel-experience tirelessly; drama-come back to life; the

film opens with scattered fragments, including many seemingly unrelated scenes, including Main line.
These worldly hustle and bustle soon make people think of a colorful life.
Then, the main line was officially launched by the moment when みょん (female host) catches the tram.

Several people lost in the city, the inferiority and cowardly Nishi, the frustrated Mika and the forced to
lead the house (Sister Mika ) (the film critic Miruku Matsuto compares this loss with the NoWhere Man in the yellow submarine)
in the ヤンThe occasional gathering in the restaurant that was managed, while missing each other's past,
ushered in the game-like turning point in their lives, which is a very exciting new page.

With the appearance of the fiancé of みょん, West's childhood sweetheart declares bankruptcy.
The turbulent father of Misaki and Tan attracted the appearance of gangsters, and Xi was also implicated and killed.
The "idealist" "god" gave Xi the opportunity to re-behave. The
reborn Xi killed the bald angry man, set up the hood and carried the two ladies to escape.
Besieged by the gang, he had nowhere to go and was arranged in the belly of the giant whale.

In this closed "island", the three met old people who had similar experiences.
The sudden despair in the isolated space quickly overwhelmed the fluke and novelty of surviving.
Instinctive awakening inspired their hidden self, and they began to try to release themselves.
After returning to rationality, they launched a struggle, and the four of them united and finally returned to the outside world.

Exciting surfing, scattered fragments reappeared, and their rebirth began.
Along with these mundane hustle and bustle, and the phrase "the story never ends", the film has also reached the climax of the game, and life itself is full of vitality.


The director immediately followed the work after the performance of "Cat Soup".
Based on the original script, this film uses comic-style jump montages
-replay, reconstruction, reorganization, interspersed narration, and jump. There are many foreshadowings and explanations.
In order to realize the entertainment of "games",
there are many interesting things to watch: the game interface after death, the constantly changing appearance of the gods, crazy chasing cars,
swallowing giant whales, Monkey King and Wuzhishan, wild classical music and dancing, rock rushing surfing

However, the characters in the film are flesh and blood, and the details of urban life abound (work, marriage, football, shady, anime).
A large number of character mental activities and subtext have been staged and visualized. Self-deception, anxiety, fear, excitement, despair, loss, relief, carefree.
From a large number of old and new realities, it is not difficult to see the social environment in which the work is rooted and the author's own memory images.

The contour lines of the characters are more "economical" than "Evil Child".
In most scenes, there is a more uniform tone color rendering. Some special scenes have bold and colorful colors.
The perspective, editing, and dubbing are the highlights of the film.
Fast-switching close-ups, extremely unstable lenses, upward viewing angles of characters, and wide-angle perspectives with ultra-long depth of field are fully utilized.
The techniques of mixing 3D rendering and real-life textures have already appeared in other works of Studio4C.
The film invited a group of well-known comedians who are also Osaka-based comedians to act as voice actors.
The protagonist's voice actor is Koji Imada. Although it sounds unnatural at first
, he can identify with such a candidate after he adapts to the film's arrogant atmosphere and lines.

Or because the script is more attractive, Asmik Ace, Madhouse, Gainax, Production IG, etc. all participated.
Works that are both entertaining and inspirational should be awarded and inject vitality into all living beings.

Reference entrance
Wiki http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82% B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0
official website
http://www.mindgame.jp/

personal rating script 8 creativity 7 technique 8

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Extended Reading

Mind Game quotes

  • Nishi: Fear takes the shape we're willing to give it.

  • Nishi: We've gotta leave. It's that or drown.

    Yan: But how?

    Nishi: The boat, of course!

    Myon: The cops'll be looking for us.

    Nishi: So?

    Myon: The Yakuzas'll come after us!

    Nishi: So what! I wanna get out! 'Cos there's so much out there! So many different people, living different lives! Incredibly good guys, bad guys... Folks completely different from us! It's one huge melting pot! See, it's not about success, dying in the streets, who's better, who's not! I just want to be a part of it! I realized that even if I've no connections, no talent, even if I'm one big loser, I want to use my hands and feet to think and move, to shape my own life! We can just die here or we can try, see what we've got!