As early as January of this year, Yuhiko Inoue announced on Twitter that "Slam Dunk Master" was going to make a movie, but there has been no action so far. After 8 months, there was finally new news coming out, the 13th official pushed out a pv, the production lineup was officially announced, and the text "'Slam dunk' 2022 autumn public booking".
This time the pv has no substantive content, only the list of production personnel. However, this is also a big improvement, you know that before the producer is still to the online recruitment of animated film production staff, painstakingly looking for a long time no one signed up. Because of the epidemic, it is now more difficult to make animation than before, and it takes a lot of time just to put together a production team.
Fortunately, now that the production team has finally been determined, everyone is speculating who will be the supervisor of this animated film, and suddenly a shocking reversal has suddenly exploded. The supervisor of the "Slam Dunk Master" movie this time turned out to be the original author of the manga, "Yuhiko Inoue".
The original author of the script is still reasonable, but I did not expect that even the supervision was served by Yuhiko Inoue himself. This is really a fool's errand, you know, although Inoue's drawing skills are very skilled, but when the animation supervision he is completely a "layman".
The production of animation requires a large number of personnel to cooperate with each other, the original painting, the second original painting, then the middle cut, transferred to the supervision and correction, then to the performance correction, and finally to the supervision and inspection. Later there are also coloring, photography and 3dcg, art backgrounds and so on. These are completely different from the solo creation of comics.
From the list of production staff, there are a total of 5 performances, they are: Otori Yukio, Kitada Katsuhiko, Miyahara Naoki, Kannuma Fumihiko, Kamiya Yu, Yasuhiro Motoda. Although the supervisor is a layman, there are 5 people to assist him and this is not a TV animation, which should not be a big problem. Production company: Toei Animation.
The following is to highlight a person, he is responsible for the character design and painting supervision of the dunk master theatrical version of the movie - Yasuyuki Ehara.
Yasuyuki Ehara, born in 1981, is mainly active in free original paintings centered on wit studio and production i.g. Gakuen Apocalypse began working with Araki and took on an important position in the works of Tetsuro Araki. The Sword Drawing Divine Comedy in "The Crown of Sin" is partly from his hand. The success of the 1-2 seasons of the "Attack on Titan" animation with a high production standard is inseparable from the three main original paintings, they are Hu Takuma, Imai Yufumi, and Ehara Yasuyuki. Yes, yes, Yasuyuki Ehara is one of the "three people of the gods.".
Will the plot of the movie be the Battle of the Mountain King?
Although the pv released this time only has a list of production personnel, the vignette in the middle still hides some information. The 5 people in the picture are wearing red jerseys, which is obviously five people from the Xiangbei basketball team. And you can also recognize the numbers and characters of the jersey, such as Akagi in the No. 4 jersey, Miyagi in the No. 7 jersey, and Shou Mitsui in the No. 14 jersey.
The other two's jersey numbers were blocked by Akagi's hand, but they could clearly tell from their appearance that it was Sakuragi Hanamichi with red hair and Kaede Ryukawa with black hair. Since the illustration of the Five Tigers of Xiangbei is released, does it mean that the plot of the movie is the most exciting battle in the national competition, "Sanno Industry vs Xiangbei"?
At that time, the TV version only made it into the national competition, and finally a piece of original content of the animation production team (a practice match with the Lingnan Xiangyang Mixed Team) ended. Since then, the national competition has become a "lifetime series" in the hearts of fans. This illustration shows that Sakuragi is still bald, so it is very likely that the film version will produce the Battle of the Mountain King.
But even if it is not the battle of the mountain king, as long as this movie can be made, I believe that fans around the world will buy it, after all, it is our lost youth. There is still a year of grandpa's youth is coming back, think about it is very exciting, this time there is a motivation to continue to live Oh.