After watching Paranoia Agent -- better than Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfather, it's not an exaggeration to be the best work directed by Toshi Kon so far. From a storytelling point of view, after all, the TV version of a 25-minute episode is better than the 90-minute OVA version.
The OP at the beginning has an amazing effect: all the characters appear one by one, all laughing in the wind, their shoulders shaking with laughter, hair skirts, suits and ties, casually blown by the wind; the foothold is even more weird, the edge of the roof, garbage The field, the seabed, outer space, in the ruins, in the huge waves, on the table of the French restaurant, the spire of the Tokyo Tower, in the middle of the crowded street, in front of the nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, the snow-capped mountains and the moon. The music is very good, heartless and cheerful, with the vitality of indigenous music, and the lyrics are also cool, "empty see things なキノコの雲", mushroom cloud is described as beautiful, it is really thick and black aesthetics. The DVD specifically includes Jin Min's commentary: When it was broadcast at midnight that year, the audience was sober when this OP came out. Like this, the anime that allows me to not fast-forward and skip the OP at the beginning of each episode is currently only the samurai champloo of Kanno goddess.
The story begins with the appearance of a mysterious baseball boy. A teenager with a golden roller skate and a twisted golden bat, who specializes in attacking urbanites with a ghost: a designer with persecution delusions, an isolated top student, a dual personality female teacher, a girl who was sexually assaulted at home, every job The manga club members who can do bad things... Whenever someone runs out of way, the bat boy shows up in time, and uses a twisted golden bat to deliver relief.
Jin Min is still wandering between the two worlds of reality and illusion. From memories in the 1990s to this point, the switching has become more and more skilled, just like a ghost. In the fifth episode, a young boy who was a video game fan was arrested in the name of a boy with a baseball bat. During the interrogation, he suddenly turned into a holy warrior and attacked the monster who turned into a passerby to save the world. Only two police departments worked hard, following the little boy running around in his fantasy RPG world, disguising as a poet for a while, and fighting with goblins for a while, which is considered a few hilarious episodes in the suppressed plot.
However, it is Jin Min after all, and the story slowly turns into a dark and neurotic fable. The baseball boy is really born from the devil, but it is just an excuse, delusion, for people to wait for redemption, or to escape from reality. The ending is a little unconventional: the first victim -- the designer of the super popular toy dog -- is indeed the creator of the boy. The baseball boy and Kawaii's pink plush dog have the same effect. One is radical and the other is progressive. The former hits the head and the latter deceives itself.
In the end, the uncle of the police department lost his mind and was lured into the perfect world in his mind: it was all scenes from the 1960s and 1970s, and the characters and buildings were all cut out of cardboard, happy and rigid, healthy and flat. The faces of the children are all red, the fish sellers are always enthusiastic and forthright, the bad guys wear black clothes, and the good guys all smile. In the end, the uncle finally smashed the phantom with his bat and said with a blank face, "My world has disappeared for a long time.
" My dears, none of us can go back! In the end, there was no way to escape, forced to turn around and face him. This is really a distressing thing, so in the final ED, the child's voice whispered, and the director asked everyone to sleep in a circle on the grass, with a large pink dog in the middle that never felt pain. All faces were warm and serene, all slept like a child. This is the only and final fantasy.
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