Mention the domestic audience's favorite Japanese animation company, it must be the Bone Society, 2021 Bone Society's works are not many, but by the type restrictions are almost all flat response, until the new broadcast in July, there is finally a work that may be popular, that is, "Vanitas's Notes", the following small eel will come to talk to you about this animation.
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"Notes from Vanitas" is adapted from the manga of the same name by Wangyue Jun, who is a cartoonist with a very distinct personal style, his painting style is beautiful, he likes to set the world view based on 19th century Europe, and the characters in his pen are all handsome men and beautiful women, so the intuitive impression of his works is romantic. From the perspective of the story, Wangyue Chun is also a unique style, and her portrayal of emotions is very delicate, but this delicacy is almost used in "abuse" and "hair blade".
The romantic and beautiful painting style and the cruel and delicate story determine the poignant style of Wangyuechun's work, such as "Pandora's Heart", "Vanitas's Notes" is even more so, this work directly spoils the end of the story in the first episode - the male protagonist kills another male protagonist, and the plot after that is all the story of the two male protagonists from acquaintance to mutual killing, and under the tone of the main line of tragedy, the respective plot branches of the characters in the story are also all tragedies, so it is said that "Vanitas's Notes" It is a work that is abused from beginning to end, and it is not an exaggeration.
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After talking about the original work, let's talk about the animation, frankly speaking, the look and feel of the first episode of "Vanitas's Notes" can only be considered to be unsatisfactory, and even make people feel a little poor, completely unlike the works of the Bone Society, and it is difficult not to think of SHAFT in the endless Q version of the sketch performance, the reason why this situation occurs is because the supervision of "Vanitas's Notes" is Itamura Tomoyuki, who was in charge of the Monogatari series at SHAFT, and the personal style of the supervisor is difficult to change, even if he jumps to the Bone Society, his work The "SHAFT flavor" won't go away either, because that's his style.
In fact, the biggest advantage of "Notes from Vanitas" is neither the production of the Bone Society nor the original work of Mochizuki, but the music of Yuki Kajiura, in the case of the lackluster in all aspects of episode 1, Yuki Kajiura's music has become a force to turn the tide, raising the look and feel of the work to a higher level, so Xiao Eel feels that as long as the animation maintains the level of the first episode and does not change the plot, the perception should not be bad, after all, there is a musical bottom, and the first half of the war zone plot that does not exist in April 86 is completely dependent on Hiroyuki Sawano's music to enhance the perception.
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Finally, let's talk about the setting and plot of "Notes from Vanitas", which takes place in a world based on nineteenth-century Paris, where people and vampires coexist peacefully, and the vampires in the story have no blood-sucking impulses, so they do not actively attack people, but have the setting of "real names". "Real name" is the basis of vampires, once known to others there is a risk of being tampered with, "real name" tampered with vampires will be like a virus infected with aggression and vampire impulses, become a disaster-like existence, and one of the male protagonists, Vanitas, is the human being who "treats" such vampires.
The human Vanitas heals vampires by interfering with the vampire's real name using the "Book of Vanitas", which restores the falsified real name to its original state, while the "Book of Vanitas" comes from the legendary "Moon Vampire" Vanitas. All vampires are on the night of the red full moon, but the moon vampire was born on the ominous night of the blue full moon, so he was bullied by his fellow tribesmen, the Book of Vanitas is the prop for the moon vampire to take revenge on his fellow tribesmen, and why this book fell into the hands of the human Vanitas and was used to treat vampires is what will be explained in the subsequent stories.
In addition to the human Vanitas, there is another male protagonist in the story, that is, the vampire Noah. Judging from the content of episode 1, Vanitas and Noah are very popular with fan women in terms of setting and relationship, Vanitas is a black fur and white skin cunning human, Noah is a white fur and black skin cute vampire, this complementary setting can be described as CP sense, and the story of the two people meeting in episode 1 is also very romantic, especially in the scene of falling under the blue moonlight. However, "Notes on Vanitas" is not actually a corrupt work, and the female CP of the two male protagonists will soon appear.
The above is the analysis of the eel's new "Notes of Vanitas" in July, personally I think this animation is still worth chasing, and friends who like this style can first look at episode 1. Thank you for reading.