Author: lll/Anitama Cover Source: "Are you going to have some rabbits today?" ～Dear My Sister～》
"Are you going to have some rabbits today?" ~Dear My Sister~" is a special new anime released in Japanese cinemas on November 11 last year, the BD of this game has been released on May 30, and the limited edition BD is accompanied by interviews with supervisor Hiroyuki Hashimoto, animation producer Kentaro Hattori, and music producer Naotaka Fujiaira, so that you can also understand the positioning and behind-the-scenes of this game.
<h4>Two years to wait for the new work</h4>
First of all, Kentaro Hattori said that because he was the first producer of the "Point Rabbit" series, he was under a lot of pressure. The second season of the TV anime is already in 2015, which made fans wait for two years, and after the release of the PV in September 2017, it was quite uneasy, but it was temporarily reassuring to see the enthusiastic reaction of fans on the first day of release. Hiroyuki Hashimoto felt that the animation in the form of TV broadcast had been put on the big screen before, and it was very doubtful in the production process whether the audience could be satisfied, but after seeing the audience's satisfied expression, he felt that it was really good to do it.
Musically, after the end of the second season, the work on the character song continued, and music producer Naotaka Fujimoto said that it was difficult to feel any change in the reaction of fans, but the "Point Rabbit" series of character songs plus the theme song of the anime has dozens of albums, so the theme song of this work hopes to convey the audience's feeling that ""Point Rabbit" is back" on the theme song. The theme song started in 2016, so a lot of Mix tweaks were made halfway through. Hashimoto supervision is not the whole process of supervision, and what is received is the finished product, the style is also very "rabbit", I believe that fans will think like this, there is no sense of violation at all. Fujihira said that the voice actors who starred in the role also said the same thing, and simply listening to the accompaniment of no vocals can feel that it is the music of this work.
<h4>The essential positioning is the ordinary special OVA</h4>
Talking about what the animators want to do about the ideal "Point Rabbit", the Hattori producer said that the good thing about "Point Rabbit" is that "nothing happens". Because it is a work that depicts "everyday life", so everyone travels together, the shift change when going to school, these small things are big things for female high school students, and special attention is paid to these points in the production, which Hashimoto supervisor also discussed in the early stage of production. In addition, as a preparation for the cinema, I was still very hesitant about how the plot should develop and how long the length of the new work should be, whether it was 30 minutes or 40 minutes, or 60 minutes.
In the end, Hashimoto felt that it was most appropriate to be an episode of the OVA, and it would be strange to force the chapters in the original work together to make the length, and the opinion of doing a "completely original plot" was also proposed at that time. Finally, Koi of the original work put forward the opinion - "How about the story of the beloved return to home", so the script of this work was also produced on this axis. However, it is not enough to simply write the story of the absence of the beloved, so after returning the beloved, he will take over the fireworks display in the original work. Because the original work is its own chapter, how to link these scattered chapters is a matter that both the animation producer and the original producer are considering.
After determining the plot content, Hashimoto found it very difficult to stuff so much content in 60 minutes, because each character has their own personality, and it is certainly not enough to fully display the personality of each character for 60 minutes. During the production process, koi was asked if he could do a little draft to sort out the content, and as a result, Koi handed over a manga storyboard, and the content was close to the storyboard used for animation production. The Hattori producers appreciated Koi's professionalism, and the manga storyboard basically determined the overall impression of the game, and there were very few original authors who could make such a big splash in the animation production.
Hashimoto, the supervisor of the specific picture positive film storyboard, and the deputy supervisor of the sub-supervisor, Hashimoto, who is in charge of the storyboarding of the tenth episode of the second season, is similar to the style of Hashimoto's superintendent, and has Koi's manga storyboard as the basis, so you can rest assured.
Hattori mentioned that although this game was released in the cinema, it was originally produced as an OVA, and the length of the OVA should be similar to that of an episode of TV, so the new OP and the new ED were originally intended to be ordinary 1 and a half minutes long, but later changed to 60 minutes and then made two changes. First of all, the OPED song was swapped, the original bright OP was placed at the end, and fujihira music producers asked the OP if it could play the full version directly, rather than the ordinary length of 1 and a half minutes, this request was rejected several times by the supervision, because it was really impossible to find a place to delete the full version of the theme song. As a result, STAFF controlled the length at exactly 60 minutes, making a little sacrifice and shoving it in, Hattori added that for commercial reasons, the 60 minutes indicator must not be exceeded, so in the end it took a lot of effort in the compilation process. Among them, the scenes of Aoyama and Rin and the scenes of Rishi's father and Chi Nai's father are almost gone, but because all the characters gathered together, they are considered fans of the movie, so they try not to delete these.
<h4>Music is one of the core parts of the "Point Rabbit" series</h4>
When it comes to the music of the "Dot Rabbit" series, Fujihira feels that it is necessary to start from the first season of OP "Daydream cafe", when this song was considered to be the most unrootable, everyone disagreed, but at Fujihira's insistence, he persuaded the surrounding STAFF, that is, at that time, the musical style of the "Dot Rabbit" series was determined, and Kaoru Okubo's composition became part of the work, plus the lyrics Hata Yaki's "ころぴょんぴょん" This kind of lethal lyrics, "Daydream cafe" And the "Point Rabbit" work itself is integrated together, and the subsequent composition is basically in this direction.
The first episode of OP "Daydream cafe" was very impressed with all "Point Rabbit" fans.
Since then, the "Point Rabbit" series has produced a large number of character songs, and some of them have also affected the original work because of the setting of the music, for example, the character song has several of these characters combined together to make a unit, and this unit-related story may appear in the original work. It can be said that the original work, music, and animation are all related to each other.
Talking about the place where this film has been particularly noticed as a movie, Hashimoto supervisor feels that the beginning is the beginning, and the beginning of this game is the scene of Thousand Nights and Saji running, rather than the protagonist's beloved and Chino, because this game is a movie, so it was deliberately chosen. In addition, because the beloved returned to his hometown, the story that happened in his hometown and the story that happened in Rabbit House are interspersed with each other, among which the flow of time is more difficult to express, and the beloved stayed in his hometown for four days, but in fact, the audience may only feel that two days have passed, and the balance of time is difficult to control.
<h4>Three favorite scenes</h4>
Hattori producers' favorite scene is the scene where Rishi conducts Chima Hye's three cleanings as an instructor, and Rishi seems to be the sister's position in the eyes of the three, but in fact all four people are on the same level.
Fujihira's favorite scene as a music producer is the scene where the fireworks take off and then the theme song is played, because he makes a lot of requests here, so he is also impressed, and it also reminds him of the scene where the song in the last episode of the first season sounded.
Hashimoto's favorite scene is the scene where his beloved returns from his hometown. Because Hashimoto has experience in leaving her hometown of Kyoto for Tokyo, she wants to make a good deal of the feeling of leaving her hometown with a positive attitude, and her beloved is leaving home, what will she think, and how her beloved family will think about the departure of her beloved, only in this way can she make a sense of family atmosphere.
Because the relationship between Chi Nai and his beloved is further clarified in the last episode of the second season, and Chi Nai grows up and also recognizes The beloved as a sister, it is necessary to go further to bring the relationship between the two closer together in the new work to reflect Tomono's growth, including Tomono's invitation to the fireworks display and the scene where he finally reaches out to his beloved and says " Welcome back". In fact, there is ambiguity between the staffs in this last scene, but the supervisor feels that it is not good to end the movie without developing around the relationship between the two, but further to this extent, there is also a little hesitation for the supervision. Because the return of the beloved is the happiest thing for her, if the end of the production list is interspersed with scenes of the daily life after the end, and the D-part (after the production list is screened) also returns to ordinary daily life, the necessity of the "welcome back" scene is greatly reduced.
Hashimoto believed that the choice of lines and soundtrack in this image would have a great impact on the transmission of feelings, and when Hashimoto completed the final scene storyboarding with the D-part, he had a premonition that "this may make people want to see it again." The "Point Rabbit" series has a touching and warm component, but it is basically "It's fun to be with everyone!" "The feeling. The theme song is also the theme of expressing "happiness". Chi Nai is the character who grows the most, but he can't grow too much, and the balance here is difficult to control. Fujihira feels that this desire to grow is not excessive growth at the same time, and this accumulation is also "everyday" itself. For middle school students themselves, they may be more like adults, but in the eyes of adults, it is only a small change.
<h4>The multifaceted nature of the character</h4>
Talking about the roles of Koi's original work, there seem to be many facets, Hashimoto said that many of them are slowly shown in the original work, for example, Rishi was first like a meticulous image of a soldier, but now it is a sister role full of girlish hearts, not that the nature of the role itself has changed, but the character itself has grown up on the ground, there is a character that cannot be moved on the root, but there is plasticity on the surface of the role, and it is precisely because of this that a series of character songs can be produced, composing a variety of units, This is also an advantage in the development of this game. As a music producer, Fujihira was also able to produce a series of character songs.
In the end, Hashimoto and Fujihira lamented the long-lasting popularity of this game, which is completely different from the works they have participated in, and every time they participate in live events, they are shocked by the enthusiasm of fans.
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