Genius Party: The Auteur Anthology
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2021
- Genius Party is a collection of the most talented anime directors from the industry given free rein to do whatever they want.
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Hey Steve. It's me Alex Moretti. I'm going to be streaming the final part of Singularity on my channel in a few minutes. It's going to be part of my Raven Software tribute video. Come check it out if you'd like.
Anime anthologies are some of my favorite things ever. There's just something special about things like Genius party and Tokyo Loop.
theyre cool
Don't forget 1995's memories
@@wylnd Oh for sure and also Neo Tokyo, Ani*Kuri15, Digital Juice, Fluximation, Fuyu no Hi, Robot Carnival, Short Peace, and Modest Heroes also all come to mind as also all worth a watch. Still need to watch Amazing Nuts and Sweat Punch though.
@@Monkeryz Aoi Bungaku is great too
@@wylnd magnetic rose is my favourite part of an anthology ever, part 2 I'm not a fan of because it feels too much like watching my own life kek
Love the creative camera direction in the Toujin Kit and the Dimension B*mb shorts so much. They feel really cinematic.
"Dimension Bomb" man, what a great short.
That last scene where he fell off the bike and just said "it hurts" really hit me in the feels.
I recently stumbled upon your channel and I've gotta say I'm so glad we have someone like you talking about Studio 4c!
It honestly feels like I fell through a rabbit hole of great artists and directors after discovering Animatrix and Genius Party. Now not all of their shorts make sense narratively but what I appreciate is that they give their artists the chance to flex their creativity and produce whatever the hell they wanted. I mean, with their talent they easily could produce something a bit more commercial; but what I love about them is that they WANT to take risks and create things that nobody's ever seen before.
Thank you for taking the time to highlight this wonderful studio! Koji Morimoto is honestly my hero, and my favorite projects from the studio is Tekkonkinkreet and Memories
i will say going forward post morimoto leaving the studio isnt what it used to be, among some other things but still has such an interesting history none the less
Hey STEVENM
Tojin is Internet famous because, Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s “cannabis works”is a very influential series of art books.
One of my favorites, top five anime, i describe it as a medley of animation, i was waiting for this! and beyond.
Yes! Something about Genius party!
Somehow i ended up watching GP with my girlfriend. By the time we got to the philosophical one we had to quit, we even tried to go through it what felt like various minutes but it just kept going. Which was a shame because when i got to watch by myself the rest i really liked what was left, they were very sweet shorts, specially the one that goes after (the whole baby growing up thing). I've still got to watch GPB, although i've seen the first one for some reason. You are killing it with 4Cember, i'm always on the lookout for what's next. I'm glad (and actually surprised that) i've seen many of their work. Merry xmas!
thank you! aand yeah i had a similar situation watching it with someone lol
I remember getting Genius Party and Genius Party Beyond in a DVD box-set when newly released. Bingewatching the almost three hour runtime. I had very little clue about the creators. But I just love how free and creative these anthology films can be. And I already had a love for the artistic side of anime-products.
I was generally enjoying most of them. Some were more fun than others. And a couple I never really found that engaging. Then. Then Dimension Bomb... well... hit. I'm not sure if it was the exhaustion of the binge or something else that had made my brain extra susceptible. But I was just agape. And mind blown throughout the runtime of that last short. Once it was over I went for an hour long silent walk trying to just process the audiovisual experience.
Never taken mind-opening drugs. But that probably is the best analogy. Jodorowsky talks about wanting to make movies that are like taking LSD. Dimension Bomb is probably one of the first times I've seen it happen.
I recommend watching Genius Party like that. All the way through. With the biggest and best sound and screen system you can scrape up. And when Koji Morimoto's part starts. Crank it from 10 to 11. And let the visuals flash across the view and the sound pump your body.
Needless to say. I thought his bit was one of the more interesting on Animatrix. But being let loose to just trip out. Dimension Bomb made me into a big fan of his work ever since.
glad you enjoyed the anthologies but dimension bomb is nothing like taking lsd, things dont move that fast
@@Stevem well. As I said. Ive never taken it. I can only go by the descriptions I hear and read. :)
@@jmalmsten thats fair id be wary of most who describe it though there's like a cultural idea of these kinds of psychdelics, then the reality. Even someone like Jodorowsky has only ever done them once 50 years ago so i dont really know if hes a good guide for such things
… The Auteur Anthology is a great model for curiosity… Young and New artists should take good note. Robot Carnival… Neo Tokyo… Animatrix… These things can get money together in a very different way and like The Twilight Zone grant special interest. The Human mind loves a puzzle and these formats offer unique clues for the explorer.
… This same thinking works very well for comics and Manga as well… give it a think. Ideas change the world.
i dont if the model is viable anymore in the way the industry is now, like you'd just put a reel online instead, that and the need for animation companies is so high that you probs wouldn't have the time
@@Stevem Apologies, I don’t think so either…. I was thinking of much smaller works. There are a lot of talented artist who are just making content… solo works as a reel that they had just Uploaded. I know that financing is the ruff part But the form is what creates some excitement. These anthologies always captured my thought in strange ways that go beyond the material. They can put the camera into bizarre modes of image and it all connects anyway because they are together… the human mind is cool like that.
Always love your feedback… I’m just pinning the idea of form.
Peace ✌️
Yowaddup.
Kaiba sometime Stevem.
We like these shows.
Merry christmas
the one with the boy and the magic pen always brings me to tears
Lol I was just about to ask could you do a video on these two films. Yaay!
part of 4c month so they were eventually going to be done
Kimura's part is so dope
I sort of viewed Yuasa's short as being about the cycle of life and death, that's a common theme in his work, so the ambiguous ending was really that things will just start all over again.
well it say to be continued, that could totallly be the end but thats what threw me
Finally, we're talking about genius Party! This movie is a 9 out 10, but it's the highest possible 9 out of 10 I can give. I'm really only not a fan of deathtic 4 and Limit Cycle, but everything else ranges from amazing to masterpiece.
yuasa's one is pretty wild
@@Stevem I think happy machine is one of the masterpieces. It feels like a moving Salvador Dali painting.
@surf city uhhh... okay? Dali's works have stylized shapes and a look to them, it's not like modern art. They actually resemble stuff like faces, elephants, or clocks, while having the Dali look. The way everything is shaped in Happy Machine is reminiscent of it. I also recommend the short Destino.
@@stheteller7470 dali is modern art, fuck do you mean, unlike modern art?
@@bojanpejovic7691 Modern art? You know like the vertical black line, or the black splashes? Or Jackson Pollock? Where nothing is even remotely drawn or painted in favor of sticking out for cash? Even people who poke fun of it with a piece get taken seriously in the modern art world.
Re: Toujin kit, Tatsuyuki Tanaka has a book of art I highly recommend called 'Cannabis Works'
shiny ohira!!!! absolute legend
trueee
Well that takes me back, its been too long since ive seen these shorts. Maybe Toujin Kit is seen as an expression of the zeitgheist of being forced to conform and not being given a chance to express yourself or your emotions. Certainly one of the more memorable ones. And i kind of liked Limit Cicle, tho it was a somewhat draining experience.
making this video was kinda painful lol because a lot of these shorts are hardddd to talk about and that one broke me lol (limit cycle)
interesting
Very cool, had totally forgot about Genius Party. Do you know of any other anthology series like this? I like the concept of a sort of multi-creator exhibition.
just look through 4cs history and projects
I always thought that it was that 'toujin kit' was beloved/famous because the concept artist Tatsuyuki Tanaka has got this cultish appeal.
thats a hell of a cult
@@Stevem his CANNABIS WORKS artbooks were extremely popular imports for a little while - after having read through it a few years back, it's funny to see how deep his visual style can reach into 4C stuff (including as recently as a whole scene in MTFKZ)
i don't consider myself an artist or anything like that, but imo Toujin Kit is probably so popular simply because it's the best short out of all of them story-wise. it strikes me as one seriously deserving a whole anime series born from it.
the short that appears at 10:51 looks like the same universe and animation style from the utada hikaru's Exodus Fluximation?? Specifically for the song Wonder 'Bout (ruclips.net/video/aZU9ELFbUlc/видео.html)
same director im guessing its the same studio at least
That's artist Tatsuyuki Tanaka. Best known for Toujin Kit but his fingerprints are all over everything from Akira to MTFKZ
This is one of the goals of Japanese 2D animation.
which goal?
@@Stevem It means trying to express experimentally and elaborately, away from the context of shōnen manga and shojo manga. It can also be seen in Tezuka Osamu's experimental animation, Studio 4 ° C, and some of Satoshi Kon's works. Today's Japanese anime companies don't have the resources they once had, so I think that even if a hit is born in the future, it will be different from such a work. I'm sorry for my poor English because I rely on Google Translate.
@@sukiyanenkansai no worries thank you for commenting
Great video as always bro! But I have to ask, how do you feel about the new Dragonball Super movie animation? I’ll reserve my judgement but from the look of the trailer… I’m already depressed 😔
you saw the second trailer?
looks fine, 2d toei departments are very busy currently so its no surprise
STEVEM yeah maybe, I guess I still have PTSD from the Berserk movies. I was so impressed with the Broly movie that it’s disappointing to not see that animation return.
@@Scrub_Jake the berserk movies? not the show? we'll get to the movies soon enough but they did come out like a decade ago
STEVEM yea also the show obviously, it all started with the movies and felt redundant to mention the show considering it’s the same animation
@@Scrub_Jake its not lol its a completely separate company on the tv show, the issues with the movie and show are very different but ill talk about it soon enough
Dang, Tanaka lost :(
He's the only director you didn't name. Felt like a missed opportunity to not dig into his pre-Genius Party Tojin Kit bits, namely the Digital Juice segment (like a 1 minute trailer for what would eventually become the Genius Party bit) and his Fluximation bit (Wonder 'Bout) which is clearly in the same world/aesthetic despite slightly different character designs. Dude really put out the same short across 3 different anthologies, haha.
good luck with the mind game video. copyright i assume.
Yep.
yep be back in a couple weeks same company claimed this video, which is annoying
Foist
no me
cant beat goku tho