A first meeting that whets my appetite! I saw the film DAN DA DAN and it is a tribute to the original work

News culture A first meeting that whets my appetite! I saw the film DAN DA DAN and it is a tribute to the original work

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The end of the year is approaching and with it autumn! The last quarter of the year is often a turning point for anime fans, as this is the season when the big new releases take place. Most of them are sequels to already existing animated series. We can mention the third season of Subject: Zerothe second season of Blue Castle or the third part of the last season of bleachingAnd to be honest, it hits less hard than in previous years: No Hero Academynot Attack on TitanNO Spy family ni de Jujutsu Kaisen. Demon Slayer Both are not on the agenda.

So we have to count on the new things, and that’s a good thing, because after reading the original material, some of them really appeal to me. Besides that Blue Box (Ao no Hako), which promises to be my favorite of the year, is the adaptation of AND THERE AND I’m waiting for. Yokinobu Tatsu’s manga appealed to me because of its rhythm, its super-bizarre side and its action-packed romance. I liked it even more because it offers a background between school situation, the supernatural and aliens. Something that is not usually my thing. After reading the first five volumes, I was convinced AND THERE AND It was supposed to have its own adaptation and I couldn’t wait to discover it and the studio behind it.

A proof of my enthusiasm that I have seen DAN DA DAN: FIRST MEETING in the cinema. A sort of preview that includes the first three upcoming episodes of the series, as well as a series of interviews with the director Fuuga Yamashiro, the creator Yukinobu Tatsu, as well as the voice actors of the protagonists (Natsuki Hanae for Okarun and Shion Wakayama for Momo Ayase).

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Exclusive sequences that explain the difficulties of adaptation. As I said, AND THERE AND is a more rhythmic manga than the average popular manga. Then you have to manage to bring effective transitions into the format on a small screen, which is not always easy. The paper format has the advantage of having different boxes and being able to highlight a whole page or even a double page. It also benefits from the immobility of the drawings, in which something projected is systematically in motion. Director Fuuga Yamashiro then prefers to use different shots to emphasize a certain jerkiness. While this may be part of the adaptation’s charm in the eyes of some, I personally felt that it did the action sequences a disservice by breaking them up. We are then less immersed in the moment.

However, to give his adaptation the right pace, Yamashiro can count on the two main actors of AND THERE ANDNatsuki Hanae has been a fixture in the scene for years and lends her voice to several main characters in well-known anime. Just got out Daylight saving time rendering and Demon Slayer However, in season 4, where he appears for Ajiro Shinpei and Tanjiro Kamado respectively, I had no difficulty distinguishing his new character’s voice from those I had just seen. He manages to modulate Okarun’s voice brilliantly when needed. Less well known, Shion Wakayama (Takina Inoue in Lycoris Recoil ; Unmei in Tact. About fate) responds brilliantly to Natsuki Hanae’s performance. She impresses even more than her male counterpart with the variety of intonations she offers, and in general I was impressed by the quality of the film’s dubbing. The two manage to bring their characters to life and maintain the ambiguity of their relationship as well as their humor in the film : I want to witness the audience laughing several times during the film

Thirdly, we must also pay tribute to the studio Science SARU. If they have a sparse portfolio, that does not mean that they are not of high quality. We owe them something Devilman Crybabyoften considered one of the best anime of recent years. If it were clear on paper that their artistic direction would follow the universe of AND THERE ANDThis was confirmed on the big screen of the Grand Rex. I was amazed and this jerky rhythm perfectly illustrates the changes in color and atmosphere.. All the better, because it is also the changed frames that make the original manga so strong.

We will also regret the format of the film DAN DA DAN: FIRST ENCOUNTER. If the making-of sequence is welcome, the simple continuation of the first three episodes leaves a foretaste of unfinished business. It does not complete the narrative arc that has been started and ends with a suspenseful scene. For comparison, one can note that Haikyu: Garbage War, Demon Slayer: The Infinity Trainor Oshi no Ko Going back to the beginning of the adaptation, they do better on this level. We can even bet that the film Chainsaw Manwhich will be the sequel to season 1, should adapt perfectly to the long format.

Enough to unsettle newbies who may simply be looking for an animated film of their own. For the rest of us, and I’m definitely one of them, it whetted my appetite while I waited for the series to air on Netflix, ADN, and Crunchyroll on October 3.