Japan Animator Expo-8 (Tomorrow from there)
Well Teddyloid has been decrowned from best music in these shorts. Besides that, I have no fucking clue what to make of this as NOBODY IS TRANSLATING THE LYRICS.
Well at least Pen-Pen gets some love.
Edit: I've watched this over four times. Welp.
In some ways this is the most elegant short out of all of them. It's extremely simple and straightforward in that it's a girl struggling to get by, and seemingly ashamed to contact her parents, while she studies to be a marine biologist. All of this while she dreams of a better life for herself.
Jesus, this really highlights how bad so many of the Anime Mirai shorts are. How am I getting more out of a five minute OVA than all those other works? I imagine the level of creative freedom is similar. I mean look how the color palette changes throughout the episode to reflect her mood.
2nd Edit: This is really a short about changing your perspective on life. She became obsessed with wealth, luxury goods, and status to the point where she was depressed about her life. Instead she failed to see the beauty and vibrance around her everyday.
Notice her reflection in the water.
It seems to be saying that while it's good to try and better yourself, don't obsess over it and enjoy your life.
3rd Edit: There really are so many small subtle things in the short, god damn. The way she holds the glass ball above her head like it's beyond her or 'above' her life, as it is now. The double rainbow is there to also signify her transformation and her internal happiness. The cake being misshapen shows how she was idolizing something that was false and corrupted. It was all an illusion in her head. There's the obvious water symbolism to represent rebirth, in that she has a new attitude. In the transformation sequence when she sees the 'big city', she sparkles instead of the tower. The way the city doesn't shine at the end visually represents how to her; now it's just a bunch of buildings.
The work also uses reiteration to good use to display the monotony of everyday life.
Oh gawd, this is all 2deep4me.
