Two of Yasutaka Tsutsui's best-known works, "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and "Red Hot Chili Peppers", will be brought to the big screen in the form of animated films this year.

The supervisor of the former is Mamoru Hosoda, and the supervisor of the latter is Satoshi Kon.

Of course, compared to the "breathtaking" of director Satoshi Kon's "Red Hot Chili Peppers", which allows everyone to understand the simple truth of "why the master is a master", "The Girl Who Travels Through Time and Space" does not have that kind of picture impact.

"The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" was created in the 60s of the last century, and has been adapted into TV series and live-action films a long time ago, but this version of the animated film is more like a work with a "side" nature than a novel, or simply another original story with the original as a framework, and its relationship with the original is not so deep.

The heroine of this work is the niece of the heroine of the novel, that is, the "original character" named Konno Makoto - like Kihata Makoto, this is also a heroine named Makoto.

17-year-old Konno Makoto is a sophomore in high school, and in terms of personality, she is a typical "tomboy" who likes to mingle in the baseball field.

And for quite accidental reasons, Makoto accidentally gained the ability to travel through time and space, but she was so confused by what happened that she didn't even know that she had acquired such magical abilities. When she returned home, she told her aunt Kazuko Yoshiyama, who had the ability 20 years ago, about what had happened. After that, Yoshiyama taught the bewildered Makoto how to use this magical power.

As a result, she began to use this ability to "go back in time" to solve various conflicts in her life, especially the emotional problems of adolescents and girls that she is not good at dealing with.

But in fact, her ability comes from her classmate Chiaki Mamiya, and at the same time, this ability has a limit on the number of times it can be used.

Like many youth dramas, after staging some emotional entanglements, Konno Makoto and Mamiya Chiaki understood each other's intentions, but the ending was that the former lost the ability to jump in time, and the latter returned to his own point in time.

The boy from the future and the girl from the past fall in love with each other, but various circumstances bring them to the point where they have to separate, the boy says to the girl, "I'll wait for you in the future", and the girl replies "Okay, I'll go right away, run" - "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" tells such a story.

However, in fact, there is almost no possibility of this separation meeting again, and the current regret is also an eternal regret.

Love without an ending has always been a relatively common theme of film expression, and generally speaking, animated films can often handle this emotion and convey it to the audience more delicately.

In general, "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" is a good film, but either because of the lack of fit between the performance elements of "Through Time and Space" and this young love at this point in time, or simply the problem of not touching the audience's context, this is not the kind of work that can prove itself commercially.

Of course, there are not too many commercial sales elements in this kind of work.

Romantic comedies are often more popular at the box office than "tragedy", and how to attract audiences into theaters has always been a science. Cinema is an art form that is different from TV, and despite the desire for the big screen, it really doesn't lend itself to Mad Poihat at this stage.

Gong Daiju glanced at the crowd of moviegoers in this screening room, except for people like him who came in specifically to observe, there were people of almost all ages, but there were not many, and they seemed very "scattered". But obviously, "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time" is not a work suitable for all ages like "Spirited Away".

That is, it lacks a high level of appeal to a specific demographic...... Miyadai So.

"It's still a long way from the classics...... said Miyadai as he finally left the screening room.

His criteria for judging things sometimes seem a little strange, how can there be so many classic movies?

However, Miyayo never thought that the opportunity to make an animated film really existed at this time.

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As time passed, soon the "Flying Witch" gradually reached the final stage, and IS began to make final preparations for "landing" in October.

Some of the crafting capabilities liberated by the "Flying Witch" have also begun to shift to the IS side.

At this time, the first volume of "The Flying Witch" will be ready for sale, but the closer it gets, the more impossible it is to tell what kind of sales it will achieve...... If you don't say anything, it's a "crow's mouth" that lacks confidence, and it's easy to make a prophecy; But what if you talk about it? A mouthful full of "poisoned milk" is even more terrifying.

After all, the sales data will have to wait to see how much Ah Zhai Ken can get when he takes out the money in his wallet.

Of course, if you compare the two, IS should be more "highlight". Because from the perspective of sales,The importance of "Flying Witch" is obviously not as important as IS,Even if you don't talk about the problem of these two works in a specific and subtle way,How should the sales of daily fans compare with harem fans?

Even if the Flying Witch is a work that sells legs, its scale is still stuck, and there can never be any out-of-the-ordinary shots. Some people may particularly like this kind of "subtlety" with sultry body design, but it is conceivable that most people still prefer the simplicity and brutality of IS.

The main obstacle to IS's success is that it was broadcast in October, the "hardest-hit area", and before the broadcast, works like Death Note and the rebellious Lelouch received far more attention than IS.

Interestingly, "Friends of the Week", which was also broadcast in October, received a lot of attention, but even though it was the original work and series composition of Miyayo Sota, it was not the main reason for the attention...... The main reason is that it's a "good" or "fake good" animation from the meat animation company LEEF., and God knows what the hell they'll do with the friendly animation.

But if you want to ask what is the most interesting animation in this October episode with super high comprehensive quality,Then his answer is probably an animation adapted from an eighteen forbidden galgame-"A girl falls in love with her sister.。

In later words, this animation gave birth to a representative and typical animated image of a women's clothing boss. It tells the story of a male high school student who disguises himself as a woman and wears a long skirt to infiltrate a women's college to "study...... It sounds more exciting than IS.

In terms of advancement, this setting should represent a certain "deformed" direction in the animation industry...... Right?