Well, time for a quick review about another very obscure OVA from a few years ago. It’s basically about fifteen minutes ling, and what you’d call a minimalist anime: there’s no real animation, but instead the story is told by showing a number of drawings in quick succession, combined with sound effects, a bit of music here and there and two voice-actors. The result is a nice way to spend 15 minutes.
What’s especially nice is that the short starts with one big question-mark, and as it goes on it gradually starts explaining itself, until everything makes sense at the end. There’s a continuous haunting atmosphere, and especially the few fights simply delve into the surreal. The characters aren’t anything special, but so what? Who cares, it’s only fifteen minutes.
I like these kinds of short movies that only take up such a relatively short time. They’re able to experiment a lot with different animation techniques and concepts, which would be too risky for full fledged movies or even TV-series. Things as Genius Party, Robot Carnival or individual shots as Atama Yama, She and her Cat and Comedy. They lack the time to fully flesh out their storyline and characters, but nevertheless, they’re all interesting to watch. G-9 seems to be part of the GA-Nime franchise, and I hope to see the rest of it subbed some day.
| Storytelling: | 9/10 |
| Characters: | 6/10 |
| Production-Values: | 8/10 |
| Setting: | 7/10 |
I was hoping this would be a promo for a new live-action show from Keita Amemiya till I noticed it was released a few months before Garo aired đ Agarta and 3-5-10 were voiced by Garo’s lead characters Kaoru and Kouga/Garo.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZROBEwE-k
How do you justify 8/10 for production values when it’s hardly more than manga-like concept sketches with audio? You don’t even need a shoe string budget for this. I don’t really like these kind of short movies. They are too condensed. They may be based on an interesting idea but they don’t have a point. She and her Cat, Comedy or Voices of a distant Star are all rather pretentious. Why not publish them as manga instead?