Animal Dance

This anime is so good. The world building and the and the character development is crazy.

SPOILERS!!!

The character turns into a wolf, but after turning into a wolf he decides, "I want to be human again." and turns back into a man.

We see a fish and 2 other fish swimming together. this signifies how us as people just follow the leader and never do things on our own. The alligator comes and get them, signifying that always going in group and never as an individual can lead to consequences. Only one fish survives.

The world building shows us such amazing areas. We see oceans, mountains, volcanos, ... and forests.

This anime is amazing and I think everyone should watch it. The meaning of the story is life itself and life as a whole.

The sound is a 10
The characters are a 10
the art is amazing! 10

and of course my enjoyment. This anime had me on my knees begging for more adaptations.

10/10

Animal Dance is a weird little five-minute music video. Its premise is that the animation style is that the background only has one color, and strange shadows move across this background, most of the time those shadows representing animals. And that's basically it. There's no plot, just five minutes straight of a weird animation technique. This is fine and all, expect that it gets very repetitive. The song playing in the background is dull and doesn't have much variety. The animation, while being very neat, some frames repeat themselves, something that just can't be done in a piece where the sole point is the animation ... technique. It gets old very fast. All in all, I give this a 5 out of 10. People who enjoy weird little ambient shorts like this might want to check it out.

Rate a 3
Art piece (no vocals/subtitles)


This art piece had promise but was greatly ruined by creator(s) decisions. For example, repeats, jumps, art smudges and unappealing visuals.

If you have ever seen movies like Pulp Fiction staring John Travolta you understand what i am getting at with jumps. For those who haven't jumps are when the movie takes on random sequences. It is different and mysterious but generally confusing.

Repeats are loops of previously seen scenes.

... Art smudges are in relation to grandfather animation where you would see the effects of old projectors as noted by the squiggly like black and white random lines.

Unappealing visuals was due to the constant image morphing. Let's face it no matter what you are looking at your brain needs some time to register and process that information before a decision of what it is made. An okay procedure although the morphing art is quite fast doesn't and isn't always quite easily recognizable. Therefore can lead to some minor headaches.

Overall: If you want an animation that lacks in story but can easily remind you of the tortures of old animation and psychiatrists ink blots by all means check this out. Personally, i want something more lively.