Otomo Keyang from Akira to Steamboy

2022-03-23 09:02:53

16 years have passed, and Japanese animation can't see the traces of the years in Miyazaki Jun, the eternal style, and praying for the same is the voice of the fans. But 16 years later, Otomo Keyang is completely different. Compared with Akira, which made a sensation in the world 16 years ago, Steamboy has changed tremendously.

But I don't appreciate these changes. Akira's violent scenes make it out of the scope of children's animation at all. The characters' unique rectangular eyes are always glowing with eerie white light, diaphragm and hatred. These are not suitable for instilling in children. Otomo Keyang's penchant for blood is as if he is Xu Sanguan's blood head, splattering, squandering, and splashing tens of thousands of cc everywhere. Although I don't like it, but this is Otomo Katsuo, Otomo Katsuo who is different from Miyazaki Jun, and Otomo Katsuo who is different from Oshii Mori. Akira's style makes people understand that Japan must have these 3 people together to be a powerful cartoon kingdom.

But Steamboy is different, it is close to Miyazaki Jun in terms of the theme, gentle and peaceful. The style of painting has changed even more, with great attention to detail, every iron plate and every screw has been meticulously drawn. Although it is said that the use of 3D operations has greatly improved the efficiency, it still took 9 years for this deliberately and meticulously filmed. After the production is completed, the scribbled hand-painted charm of the past has long since disappeared, and the delicacy of craftsmanship is everywhere. This is also close to Miyazaki Jun intentionally or unintentionally, but Miyazaki Jun's carefulness is used in meaningful places (such as the heavy rain in the fields in My Neighbor Totoro), and Otomo Keyang's carefulness is completely to challenge the limits of human beings in making cartoons . At the end, there is a panoramic view of London. Compared with the famous old Tokyo nuclear explosion at the opening of Akira, the buildings are dozens of times more, and every detail is very clear. When the originality is weak, the level of production can indeed be strengthened.

The cartoon costing 2.4 billion yen is worth watching. What's more, there is also a moving castle in the film, but it's not sure how many times bigger than the one in Howl, to put it figuratively? It's half the size of London! This time, if it's a comparison of size, Miyazaki Jun is sure to lose.

These people in Japan are very fond of stories with Western backgrounds, and it seems to them that the whole Westernization is a very natural thing. The issue of face and face may be one of the reasons why our 1980 Reformation did not succeed~~

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Extended Reading

Steamboy quotes

  • Dr. Lloyd Steam: And what would men do with this new technology? Plunge the world into war and chaos?

    Dr. Eddie Steam: But that very chaos would transform us. the heart adapts to reality.

    Dr. Lloyd Steam: [Points a gun at Eddie] But the heart comes first, Eddie!

  • James Ray Steam: There's no time. I have to stop it now.