Ari-chan

Rate a 5
English Subtitled in the opening credits only. No use of words or spoken audio is done in this film.
Note:This animation is the first to use a Multi plane camera. If you are like me and have no idea what i am talking about i will explain it. In other words consider a picture you took from your phone let's say of a selfie. That would be one plane. Inside that picture are objects that are at multiple distances such as the background is most likely farther than your face form the camera. What the Mutli plane camera did was used glass that same ... picture but only objects of a certain depth away stayed on a glass plane. In other words say plane 1 glass had objects that looked like 1 inch away. Plane 2 had objects that looked 1 foot away. Yada yada... any-who, the point of this was to make for a proper movement zoom in. That is the concept idea in general form. If you are still confused Disney did a good video providing answers on that.

Story
A kind illustration on why stealing is bad without a rough approach. To me a rough approach in teaching a lesson is like spanking. It gets the point across but at what cost? The gentle approach they used was through the main character get you the viewer to feel the connection people have with things. Like observing someone mow the grass... or cleaning a pool. Yes, they both are jobs that require work but one does the work so they can appreciate what ever they are working. Do you wish to swim in a filthy pool? Do you want play in the yard if the grass is up to knees?

Art
-black and white

Sound
- no vocals.
-Mainly instrumental for some of the instrumental music doubles as slight animation noise in some rare events.

Character
-perfect amount of history for a character. One doesn't need to know further information.

Enjoyment
Oh if all cartoons/anime could deliver kind hearted messages in this way perhaps then life would be violent? One could only hope. Although, you might be curious to why a 5 when i appear to show such love for this. While i did enjoy the message behind the story the story by itself wasn't gripping. I know it goes against what i just mentioned but i love car chases. I love gun fights. Here, one could say was tame. While can teach your kid a lesson don't expect him/her to re-watch it.

so this is not a ordinary anime from now days as someone would have imagined this anime is a really good example of the anime aired in the mid 30s to 40s . First of all the anime intrudes the main character (an ant) with a old classic melody in the background witch goes along with the show .That being said the nice melodic sound playing can easily represent the whole music era back in the day .Before ending the review i want to specify that scoring this anime is really hard as it is one of the first times i have ever seen an ... anime like this one .

Ari-chan the Ant is well preserved and well remastered for modern viewing thanks to the work of the Japanese Film Archives who have graciously made the film available to the public for free. The story is a simple moralistic tale about the pitfalls of theft. Ari-chan, the ant in question goes through an epic adventure upon chancing on a violin that they nonchalantly pick up. After following an orchestra of insects deeply reveling in music, Ari-chan realizes that the object they grabbed might be dear to its owner and promptly returns it after a life threatening experience thanks to a giant hand (belong to ... a human).

The sound design is particularly good in this one, especially considering how music plays a pivotal role to the plot. The story is geared primarily towards kids, but is a good representation of the animated works of the time - based on folk tales and morals directed at kids.