Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 4:59pm on Monday, July 13, 2009
Filed under: Anime, Future releases, Trailer Updates
The official website for Shinsuke Sato‘s upcoming CG-animated film Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror has been updated with a new full-length trailer.
The story, penned by tween-friendly novelist Otsuichi, involves a girl named Haruka (voiced by Haruka Ayase) who discovers a portal to a world of creatures who gather up all the childhood trinkets humans tend to abandon as they grow up. These creatures have horded these items and created their own city called Oblivion Island. With the help of a fox companion named Teo that she meets along the way, Haruka goes on an adventure to reclaim a very special mirror.
Distributor Toho will be releasing “Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror” in Japan on August 22nd.
Source: Twitch via Affenheimtheater
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Tags: haruka ayase, oblivion island haruka and the magic mirror, otsuichi, shinsuke sato
it’s quite an impressive piece of animation, relative to what japan has so far turned out in this style, but i also fear it will be broadly compared on terms of little more than CGI films before it’s on terms of story, character, emotion, imagination and so on. in the non CGI-departments it’s still a case of a similar situation, where it’s not assessing on appropriate cultural terms (and trying to discover just what those terms may be) but applying your own most familiar frame of reference and experience, which is very ineffective. it seems it’s likely to look very easy to see this at it’s initial appeal level : as a children’s story, as per pixar, dreamworks et al. could be perfectly good, but will it get a fare and accurate crack of the whip if it’s not setting out to exist in a place that’s about intentionally and clearly setting a challenge to the viewer?
Posted by logboy at 11:38am EST on Tuesday, July 14, 2009
looks like a warm and fuzzy feel-good for end of summer!
Posted by chkzulu at 1:24am EST on Tuesday, July 14, 2009