Introduction: The most recent new film "Japan Sinks 2020" is a web animation work directed by Masaaki Yuasa, adapted from Komatsu Sakyo's novel "Japan Sinks". But since the launch of this work, the reputation has not been good, and the Douban score is only 6.4 points. The reason why it was optimistic after learning that the work was directed by Masaaki Yuasa was actually more derived from his previous works.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Masaaki Yuasa's personal style</h1>
When it comes to Daijin Yuasa, an animator known as a ghost, many people may know him from his eerie style and the use of wide-angle lens style. Masaaki Yuasa has served as a painting supervisor, setting, original painting, etc. in "Crayon Shin-chan", was responsible for the original painting in the well-known "Cherry Maruko" TV animation, and also participated in the production of other peripheral projects. The animated film "Mind Game" produced by STUDIO 4°C is his film debut as a supervisor.
The animated short film "Sound Life", in which Masaaki Yuasa was responsible for the design, world view, scenes and painting supervision, this short film attracted the attention of the industry, and in 2002, Masaaki Yuasa began to supervise the work "MINDGAME" (Mind Game) that was completely his own. "MINDGAME" reflects his genius ideas all the time, which is completely the crazy world of Masaaki Yuasa, and also reveals Yuasa Masaaki's unconventional, somewhat like crayon painting but gorgeous style.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > high rating for "Ping Pong"</h1>
However, what we are going to focus on today is a sports anime supervised and directed by Daijin Yuasa, "Ping Pong". Adapted from Matsumoto Dayang's sports-themed manga, Ping Pong was produced by Japanese animation company Dragon's Son Studios and began airing in April 2014 with a total of 11 episodes.
Matsumoto's original manga is composed of small curves and has a unique style. The lines that look like doodling are not low in technology. It can be said that painters who do not have certain skills cannot control this style at all. Because this is not only not a graffiti for children, but even a tall technology. But it is also because of the alternative style of the overall painting that countless people missed this anime.
If you know Masaaki Yuasa's daimyo and the works he directed, you should not want to miss this anime. The score given by "Ping Pong" on Douban is 9.5, which is enough to explain the strength of this work.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the plot setting of Ping Pong</h1>
The two main characters in this story are "A-bian" Peko (Hoshino Hiroshi) and "Laughing" Smile (Tsukimoto Makoto), a member of the table tennis department of Katase High School. The two grew up together and have extraordinary talents for table tennis, but with completely different personalities. "Ah Bian" has a flamboyant personality, maintains his own talent, and has a very high self-esteem; "Laughing Master" is silent and taciturn, indifferent to anything.
The smiling "laughing master" was invited by "Ah Bian" when he was a child to play together in the table tennis dojo "Tamura". At that time, "Xiao Ye" was very strong in technology, but he had never been able to defeat "Ah Bian". However, "Ah Bian" has always been interested in a student from China and has always wanted to find an opportunity to compete with him.
By chance, the confident "Ah Bian" met Kong Wenge, a Chinese student from Tsujido Academy. Kong Ye, with his strong strength, gave "Ah Bian" a blow and crushed his long-established self-confidence.
Kong Ye said a piece of ridicule with fluent Chinese, and this plot is quite classic. Masaaki Yuasa surprised the Chinese audience and worked hard to invite professional Chinese voice actors. However, the person who really makes Kong Ye really interested is not "Ah Bian", but "Xiao Ye". He was the first to see the talent of "Laughing Master". Also seeing the talent of "Laughing" are Ryuichi Kazema, the ace of Aquaman High School, and Koizumi, the ping-pong coach of Katase High School.
In order to make "Laughing Grandpa" arouse the fighting spirit to participate in the competition, Koizumi proposed to arrange a personal course for "Laughing Grandpa". Tsukimoto, who had no fighting spirit, was eventually aroused by Koizumi and had the desire to win. After having desire, "Xiao Ye" began to shine in the ping-pong league, and even almost killed Kong Ye. Since then, people have known the existence of "Laughing Grandpa"!
On the other hand, "Ah Bian", because of his self-esteem and talent, has a very high self-esteem, and neglects to exercise on weekdays, and as a result, he is taught to be a man in the league. This fiasco made "Ah Bian" give up playing table tennis completely.
Of course, Kong Ye, who is also conceited, after winning the moon by chance, was also beaten by the wind dragon to the point that he could not take care of himself. But Kong Ye and "Ah Bian" are different after all, this time the failure did not bring him down, but let him put down his body and began to integrate into the surrounding environment.
summary:
The real, meticulous portrayal of each character is the charm of this anime. Masaaki Yuasa borrowed the work "Ping Pong" to tell us about a struggling youth. In this anime, whether it is the protagonists "Laughing Grandpa" and "Ah Bian", or the passerby characters who appear less often. Every character has come out of their own ping-pong road.
Of course, "Ping Pong" is only one of the works directed by Masaaki Yuasa. The imagination and feeling possessed by Yuasa Daijin, as well as the uninhibited and yearning for freedom that transcend ordinary people, made the animation he directed more brilliant and shocking.
This article is the original debut of "White Man", the picture comes from the network, and the invasion and deletion apologize!