Author: hb/anitama Cover Source: Morning Glory and Kase Classmates. 》
ova Theater "Morning Glory and Kase Classmates." At present, the film is still in the Japanese theater release, and the theater vendor interviewed the film's supervisor Sato Tokuzai and the producer Yusuke Terata, and the two gave detailed answers on the planning, painting, performance, and music of the animation.
The place where Sato first met the original Kase series of manga was the bookstore, which was used by the first volume of the manga, Morning Glory and Kase Classmates. Sato, who was attracted by the cover, bought the first volume. After reading it, the content of the manga did not disappoint Sato, especially the personalities of yamada and Kase, which made Sato particularly like it.
Although from time to time Yamada and Kase will be jealous of each other, there are also times when they twist and grind. However, because the troubles in the two love affairs are both sound, Sato does not feel annoyed at all. After every misunderstanding between the two is solved, they will breathe a sigh of relief and say "Great! ", this is something that Sato also likes very much.
Producer Yusuke Terada was attracted by the human moods and sorrows depicted in "Morning Glory", and also attached great importance to the relationship between Yamada and Kase as much as Sato, so Terada believed that the priority of the work was to show "the beauty of the world of only two people".
Sato was involved in the production of a lot of dark-based works, so when he saw such a pure work in the Kase series, he felt very fresh, felt like he had entered a new world, and had the idea of animating Morning Glory. After reading the second volume, "Bento and Kase Classmates." ", the third volume of "Strawberry Cake and Kase Classmates." At the same time, Sato's idea that "we must animate the Kase series" was gradually strengthening.
So Sato began to send a series of classmates to Other People,Rye Kase, including the person who set up Hisa Sakai in this anime. After questioning Sakai, Sato learns that Sakai is an old fan of the manga. After learning about the popularity of the work through Sakai, Sato saw the dawn of the animation of the work and began to inquire about it. It was then that Sato came into contact with Terada through pony canyon.
In pony canyon, although there is a producer who is familiar with Sato, the man is now far away from the production scene, so he introduces Sato to Terada. When Sato saw Terada, he handed the original work to Terada very directly, but to Sato's surprise, Terada and Sakai had already seen the original work. Seeing that there are so many people around who like the Kase classmate series, Sato is also more determined to absolutely animate the work.
The animation was not something that Sato could decide by patting his head on the head, and after discussions between Terada and Sato, they decided to make an animation clip first, but it took four months just to get the short film planned through. Terada humblely believes that the animation of the work is not smooth because of his lack of ability, when promoting the project, Terada needs to frequently meet with Sato and send and receive e-mails, and repeatedly update the information every day, and then go to Sakai to draw an impression draft for the project, it can be said that every day is very tight, so Terada feels that the four months are passing quickly.
After talking about the topic of planning, the topic of planning turned to the script, and in Sato's eyes, it was more interesting than the scene of Yamada and Kase interacting with the story itself. From this point of view, Sato chose to skip the first volume of introducing the characters, and chose the plot to make an animation from the second volume. Although Sato himself wanted to see the plot of Yamada and Kase's acquaintance before falling in love, when considering animation, Sato found that he really wanted to describe as much as possible after the two of them had a relationship.
And Sato also added a funny plot that is not in "Your Light" to the ova, for example, the more funny plot of Kase going to Yamada's house was put into the ova. Sato thinks it would be a good idea to describe the silly side of Kase and Yamada a little bit, and ova doesn't have to portray only "the beautiful world of Yamada and Kase". Moreover, the original author did not give Sato a limit, which also allowed Sato to choose the plot according to his own ideas.
Since Sakai himself is a die-hard fan of the Kase classmate series, and he is very good at simple lines and colors but attractive washing methods, Sato asked Sakai to ask Sakai to design the characters as simple as possible, and Kase's personality to be more cute, there were almost no other requirements.
Kase's original character was too much like a man, and although Sato often heard people praise Kase for being very handsome, he didn't agree with that view. In Sato's eyes, Kase should be a more girly and cute character, and both Yamada and Kase should be purely cute characters.
The selection of voice actors was originally auditioned through tapes, and the most distressing thing about the selection of voice actors was Yamada's voice actor, and everyone present with Kase's voice actors thought that Sakura Ayane was the only one. Sakura's voice is handsome and feminine, and he is the voice actor who is closest to everyone's impression of Kase. Yamada's voice actors did not decide at the time of recording selection, and finally framed 6 or 7 voice actors to the recording studio for the second round of selection.
Before the second round of selection, Sakura came to the studio to collect Sakura's Kase voice, and then gave the source to Yamada's voice actor's candidates. Since Sakura's acting skills are already in place, it is necessary to look for a voice actor whose voice line is in line with Sakura's acting skills. Finally, in the studio live audition, everyone found that Takahashi's voice was the best with Sakura's, so takahashi was selected as Yamada's voice actor. Moreover, when deciding on the voice actor of Yamada, He also let Kido Ikubuki try on Mikawa, and as a result, Kido's voice line was perfectly in line with Mikawa's impression in Sato's mind, so he finalized Kido as Mikawa's voice actor.
Ova's theme song "Tomorrow", "Tomorrow", is also sung by voice actors of the two protagonists. Sato and others thought that the theater ova was like a documentary by Yamada and Kase, so they decided to let Yamada and Kase sing a cover song as the theme song. Although I also thought about making an original song, this was contrary to the original idea of a cover song. In the end, based on the criterion of "love pop music that ordinary female high school students like Yamada and Kase sing at karaoke", the cover i wish was chosen for "Tomorrow への扉".
Since the Kase series has a large number of fans aged 15 to 35, Terada considered choosing a song they are familiar with from the perspective of the audience, which is another reason why "Asuka への扉" was finalized. Terada himself, who is a producer, is 28 years old and just in the age range of fans of the original game, and he himself is very familiar with "Tomorrow". Sato added that "Asuka への扉" is a song that transcends the times and can resonate with anyone, which is also an important reason for the final choice of "Tomorrow".
The op and third part of the ova are both shots drawn by Sato himself, and the composition and camera position of the shots with characters are different from those of ordinary TV animation. Sato wanted to create a sense of presence where Yamada and Kase were right next to us by imitating the way the camera was fixed in one place to shoot the actors.
Therefore, the size of the character in the picture and the angle at which it is filmed are not the same as ordinary TV animations. The characters will appear much smaller than the whole picture, but in contrast to the art will become very important, and the cooperation of photography and other departments will become necessary. Sato had wanted to try such a complicated production method before, but he didn't have the chance. This time the production was relatively free, and Sato was able to realize as many of his ideas as possible in this film.
Terada himself also liked Sato's approach, for example, when the picture was far away, there would be a lot of people at the animation scene who would say, "Close-ups of the character should be added before and after this shot," but Terada would say, "Since it is a long-range view, let's make a growth shot." Terada has always wanted to participate in the production of such a style image, and Kase's classmates can say that it is a rare and good opportunity, so he made a lot of suggestions.
Terada was very fond of the film director Sophia Coppola, who as a female supervisor used the picture to guide the line of sight, the control of the rhythm, and the use of music all left a deep influence on Terada. Coppola's way of photography that eliminates the sense of reality is something that Terada wants to feel in this film. Also, when the project for "Your Light" was about to be released, Terada fell in love with the movie "Carol", which was released in Japan at that time. "Carol" is a very beautiful film like the Kase series, which is a very beautiful film, so Terada mentioned "Carol" to everyone during the script meeting. Supervisor Sato also likes "Carol", and this ova also has a part of the storyboard that refers to the "Carol" painting.
Sato believes that the tone of Carol is very similar to that of cinematographer Saul Leiter, and in a conversation with the film's musical rionso, Sato mentions that he injected a "saul leiter soul" into Morning Glory. As mentioned earlier in the interview, the film's goal was to photograph Yamada and Kase by mimicking the way the camera was fixed in one place, creating a natural, non-deliberate sense of recording, and it was Saul leiter who inspired Sato.
Saul Leiter photographed many of the subjects being photographed in their natural state without realizing the camera's existence. And his work also has inconclusive focus and foreground things are messed up, which may seem like a failure for many people, but Sato wants to move this style into animation.
Saul Leiter photography
Of course, Sato also understands that it is too difficult to inject the "saul leiter soul" in all the shots, and it is difficult to achieve this in tv animation, even if it is only a few shots. This time, ova did not allow herself the opportunity to realize her own ideas, so Sato worked very hard to create a natural sense of natural decoration.
Not only did the performance style take inspiration from other artists, but Sato also found references in the film when thinking about the style of the soundtrack. The third part deliberately adds discordant sound effects to the soundtrack, an idea that originated from the beginning of David Fincher's film The Social Network.
The story of this film also reminds Sato of Varis Hussein's famous work "Two Little Guesses". The hero and heroine who are still in elementary school in "Two Little Guesses" fall in love with each other, but they are hindered by the adults, and finally the two elope with the help of friends and leave the small town where they live. At the end of the anime, Yamada rushes to Kase's side, which is very similar to the plot of "Two Little Guesses", and Sato is very fond of this powerful force called love.
In the original game, there is no scene in which Yamada and Kase take the Shinkansen to Tokyo together, but Ova adds the scene of the two in the car after ed. On this point, Terada summarized two reasons. First of all, although ova chose the plot from the first three volumes, Terada, the most representative name in the series, believes that it is none other than Morning Glory, so he wants to name the first volume in the anime. Secondly, the morning glory is also very compatible with the work, so as soon as the two are combined, the flower language of the morning glory flower is put into the plot of the final journey to Tokyo. Although adding drama is not Sato's idea, but the animation op has morning glory, this kind of echoing practice Sato also likes it very much.
The topic turned to the watercolor style art that ova makes people care, and this time the background of the ova is very blank, and it also deliberately pursues the texture of hand-drawn. Sato has long wanted to try to create an art background that does not resemble digital drawing without increasing the number of colors in the texture of pencil strokes. The main visual image and the original public special image are experiments with this art style, and finally after the experiment, everyone thinks that this style of art is very good, and Sato also hopes that in the future, there will be more works that use the background art with hand-drawn texture.
In terms of photography, Sato and Sakai do not want to do too complex photographic effects on the characters, for example, many animations now like to make the subtle light in the eyes, the blurring effect of the hair and other photographic effects as meticulous as illustrations, this kind of photographic effect Sato is not very like. Also, in order to match the color change in the scene, Iwaida Hiroshi made a very detailed color design, which has a very beautiful picture.
In addition to the watercolor version of the art, the effect of light in the animation is also very attractive. Sato set the theme of "depicting light" when making "Your Light", so the incident light and the passing light in the animation are not added to the photography, but are drawn first by the artists, and the theater ova also follows this practice.
When asked about the most interesting places in the ova, Sato mentioned the beginning of the ova and the scene without characters but only the scenery. Because of the need to cram women's love stories and incomprehensible realist images into the morning glory film, it is interesting to think about how to rationalize the existence of these scenes. The rhythm and use of the vista of the work, as well as the production method of choosing the soundtrack together with Rionso based on the synchronization of the image picture, are all more of Terada's concern.
As a producer, Sato usually finds it difficult to see the audience's feedback on the film, but after the release of "Your Light", Sato saw a lot of feedback through youtube and Twitter and other websites, and was able to make animation in response to everyone's support, which Sato believes is the most powerful place in the Kase series. Terada urged fans to write out their own feelings, and every comment of fans will be turned into a driving force for the promotion of Kase series projects.
Reference fee: Asao to Kase's official pamphlet
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