The new show "Only the City Where I Don't Exist" (hereinafter referred to as "Public Street") in January 2016 was launched last week. Before the broadcast, the director Tomohiko Ito accepted many interviews, talking about the opportunity of his encounter with this work, as well as his thoughts and expression methods in the direction of the work.
Speaking of the chance of encountering "The Slave Street", the supervisor said that an A-1 Pictures employee named Shibuya recommended the comics of "The Slave Street" to him. At that time, only the second volume was published. After reading the first volume, the supervisor was greatly shocked, and after reading the second volume, his appetite was stunned by suspense. Regarding this point, the supervisor said that the method of leaving suspense in the comic series is very clever, and he will also pay attention to this aspect when arranging the plot of the animation. He and the series composer Taku Kishimoto put a lot of effort into the script, striving to end every word in the most suspenseful position.
And the animation of this work, the supervision is indispensable. Since becoming a fan of comics, Supervisor Ito began to find people everywhere to promote "The Street" in search of animation. But after all, only two volumes were on sale at the time, and the content of the story was still in its infancy. Therefore, for "The Slave Street", which uses the ups and downs of the plot as a selling point, the initial stage of the animation proposal is a considerable risk. Fortunately, the supervisor is persevering, and he finally got what he wanted.
For the supervisor, the charm of the original comics is the excitement and anxiety caused by the completely unpredictable plot. Supervisor was born in 78 years, and the male lead Fujinuma Satoru was born in 77 years. The close age of the two makes the supervisor resonate with the living environment of the male lead in elementary school. So the supervisor put the surrounding environment of Tokyo Iidabashi, which he was more familiar with, into the background of the first episode. The supervisor hopes to express the nostalgia rather than the "old" atmosphere in the animation's sense of the times.
Regarding the plot, the supervisor felt that this work does not need to have gorgeous action fights, but only to advance the plot lightly. And it also has the heavy side of describing social problems, so it does not necessarily require cute girls to appear. Therefore, the supervisor's request for the shaping of the two heroines of the two eras is not to be too "girlish" and not to portray them as beautiful girls in the traditional sense. Regardless of painting and seiyuu performances, female characters are required to be suppressed, and the drama in love will also be reduced.
Regarding the classification of the works, the supervisor learned from the discussion with the original teacher Sanbujing and the teacher’s comic editor that he did not want to paint "The Slave Street" as a suspense drama, but hoped to paint it as a suspense drama. The "human drama" of the coat. The supervisor himself felt the same when reading the original, so although the animation pictures are more suspenseful, he also pays attention to the description of the human drama, hoping that the audience can read the true intentions of the creators from it. In the face of the protagonist's voice actor issue that has received much attention, the supervisor said that he did not use live-action actors for the "realism" of the work. His personal impression of the protagonist is "the realistic version of Nobi (the protagonist of "Doraemon") "Although Tsuchiya Taiho and Manosuke Manosuke have no experience in animation voice actors, they just meet his requirements. The supervisor's impression of Tsuchiya is that he has a strong sense of Showa regardless of his personality and performance style. The voice is also the feeling of a "good boy", it is difficult to make others have a bad impression. And Mandobu's acting skills gave the supervisor a very simple impression. Although Mandao himself is very talkative, when the supervisor heard Mandao’s male lead in the first episode, he was surprised by the excessive acting skills and almost came forward to ask him whether he had a psychological problem. In addition, Manshima's voice has a strong sense of penetration due to the past experience of narration and dubbing. And he himself has the ability to act in comedy.
As for the fact that the two's animation voice actors are still relatively inexperienced, the supervisor revealed that his other purpose is to combine the gradual growth of the dubbing experience with the gradual development of the storyline. The success of this plan is not yet known, but the supervisor feels that it is worth trying. At present, the dubbing has been conducted for a few words, and the supervisor said that there is a situation in which the male protagonist has been moved by the dubbing and the growth of the male protagonist is felt. It can be said that the attempt has been successful.
Regarding the resonance between the supervisor and the male protagonist, he said that in the first episode, the comic editor said that the male protagonist’s face cannot be seen through the work. He hopes that he can provide deeper opinions and the feelings he has experienced in making the animation. Coincidentally. By the way, when he was reading the original at home, the supervisor's wife also came to ask him if he had any feelings for this line, which frightened the supervisor. But the supervisor also felt that he wanted to take these plots that he cared about as the center of the animation, and how the male protagonist solved these problems would become the core topic in the whole story. In addition, viewers who have watched the first episode should have noticed that the protagonist’s mother Sachiko (52) has a body like a model and a voice like a god of death, exuding a strong sense of presence. According to Supervisor Ito, Sachiko (52) is also a teacher of Sanbu. The ideal mother of painting. The supervisor herself was even more impressed with Kayo, and she was full of praise for her loneliness, patience and independence that ordinary elementary school students did not possess.
Supervisor Ito also hopes that the audience can watch the film with the mentality of watching a foreign TV series. In addition to the aforementioned, the protagonist uses a live-action actor as a seiyuu, and after discussing the music and sound effects supervisor and the sound supervisor Iwanami Miwa, they also decided to use the live-action TV drama style to attract audiences who don’t usually watch animation. .
Finally, as the time travel performance at the core of the film’s plot, Supervisor Ito, who once served as the famous travel through work, said that he would try to eliminate the impact of the performance of "The Girl Through Time" and not Will use the expression of crossing different spaces among them. Instead, try to portray the "repetition machine space" of the male protagonist's ability to look back in time, to show the complex time and space travel plot. In order to make it easier for the audience to understand the story between the two eras without confusion, the supervisor and series composition decided to boldly revise the script after discussing with the three teachers, streamlining and constricting the plot, which can also increase the intensity of the plot. I hope that the audience can compare with the original and appreciate the effect of the revision.
In addition, as mentioned in the supervisor interview, the damn male protagonist with a strong sense of existence is 52 years old, but after reading the first episode, I think it can be good or not! Of course, many viewers can hardly resist the heavy facts brought about by numbers, after all, being in their 50s is a bit too much. Fortunately, the second episode has been put back 20 years ago. What the hell is the male protagonist in his early thirties, and the editor who has never read the comics expressed his expectations!
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