Shirobako | Episode 12 | TFP Review
kijakusai: The credit-title sequence says:
キャスト
Cast
菅野 樫井笙人
Kanno – Kashii Shōto
So [Hideaki] Anno, who is a voice actor (of a kind), didn’t do the voice of himself?
Hitsugi Amachi: I was wondering a bit about this myself. Perhaps they approached him but he declined to voice his doppelganger. It would have been amusing if he had voiced himself, but it could be that…he’s not a good enough voice actor.
kijakusai: Yeah, Anno may have seen people say, ‘Anno’s voice acting? ┐(´～｀)┌ No good.’ ｗ
(In Grand Prix, Mifune Toshirō played the role of a race team owner who was loosely modelled on Honda Sōichirō. In the English version of the film, the voice of Mifune was dubbed by Paul Frees. In the Japanese dub version of the film, the voice of Mifune was dubbed by Moriyama Shūichirō, rather than Mifune himself.)
bctaris: So it was all about Sugie as I kind of hoped after last episode. And more major kudos to this show for exploring the state of animation in the industry. First with the argument over CG, and now with the way that the common narratives in anime today, despite the general sharpness and detail of their animation, don’t, in fact, often feature some of the complicated movement animation that some old-timers knew better, like that for large animals. (Some fantasy shows still have it, but think again about what the line producer, Watanabe, suggested about panning above the horses’ legs to save time and effort: you really don’t see actual top to bottom horses like you saw here anymore, or if you do they’re either absurdly exaggerated, or CG.) This became some sort of theme this year, between this, Kill la Kill, and of course the anthology Space Dandy, of championing and restoring and reinterpreting the styles and techniques of veteran animators. (Ping Pong, too, but only in its labored hand-drawn nature; otherwise that’s mostly new territory.)
Part I suppose is that general theme of honoring one’s elders, which this episode was all very much about, to the point of hitting the younger key animators who dismissed Sugie last episode over the head with it. But part is more of director Mizushima’s intentions to expose the tensions inherent in the anime industry in its current state.
It’s been a sometimes uneven build, but this was an excellent episode, and it feels like the show is ready to come into its own.
Well, now I need to see Andes Chucky.
kijakusai: Andes Chucky is probably modelled on Yamanezumi Rocky Chuck. Taniguchi (Votoms) Moriyasu, the president of the Anime R studio, was a key animator of Rocky Chuck. So people conjecture Sugie is modelled on Taniguchi.
TC Entertainment released the DVD boxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_7KwHLLR8
bctaris: Now I get the homage of this Shirobako episode, and “Andes Chucky“, to that. Despite the cute faces, and the expected bipedal movement of the hero, you can see how so many of those animals move in unexpectedly real ways.
kijakusai: The credit-title sequences of Rocky Chuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr5Lu3eQGMc
The songs were sung by Horie Mitsuko.
The adviser Dr Koga Tadamichi was a famous zoologist-veterinarian.
Miku-san sings the OP song of Rocky Chuck.
