Since I went to a Japan center, I obviously have a lot of new stuff.
Two exciting things I got were two Yokai movies:
A Letter to Momo and The Great Yokai War.
Of course, I had to watch them. I choose A Letter to Momo first. As much as I like strange special effects and master-less samurai with goopy orange blood, a simple illustration of three anime-like yokai and a teenage girl immediately drew my attention.
I watched it just now.
The art was like that of Studio Ghibli.
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See? Or not? Sorry if the pictures didn’t work…
The animation, however, was kind of crappy. The vehicles tended to jerk a lot when they moved, but the characters didn’t do so as much.
And the characters were great!!! I was laughing for most of the yokai scenes. The three ‘goblins’, a frog man, a oni-like giant, and a snake-monkey, were spot-on.
The plot was well-driven and engaging, other than the ending, which was a little too long for my attention span. You could really feel the characters struggles, especially the tension, frustration, and suspense.
It was really amazing! One thing that I look for in monster films is the quality of the yokai. Are they interesting, wild, and cool-looking? Do they have stories? Do I recognize some of them from legends? And these yokai were very good, according to me.
Well, some people may be disturbed by one thing: the fart humor. It wasn’t very subtle, but there wasn’t much of it, either. Little things like:
«Frogs are lame. Plus their talking sounds like farts.»
Or:
«Do your secret attack!»
«*farts*»
Eh. That’s yokai for you.
I wouldn’t recommend it if you haven’t been introduced to yokai culture and the Shinto religion, but you’d still ‘get’ it.
So yeah!
Pretty cool.
Did the pictures work? If not, then 😦 . If they did, I’ll upload more! 🙂
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Yay!
Hmmm. More reviews, photo stories, and other fun stuff soon!
Probably soon. Is it okay that I posted twice in one day? That always seemed like a weird taboo to me. Ah well, plenty of people do it. 😐
So yeah! Maybe you’ll get to see some of the other cool stuff I got!
Like candy… and daiso junk… and a no-face plush from Spirited Away…
Okay!
–Changuita
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