Apr 12, 2020
You either get it or you don't, and it's quite clear from the score this has received the people reviewing it don't.
Perhaps the subtleties are lost on those with no knowledge of Japanese.
Perhaps people thought this was a true, studio produce animation feature. It's not. It was drawn, animated, and voiced by the same man, Takashi Taniguchi, who animates both as a hobby and professionally. He started his own anime production while still in university because he enjoyed it.
People ranting about the art and animation is equivalent to ranting about the art and animation of the asdf movies, or the lazer collection, or "look at
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my horse" end of ze world, schfifty five. These works are tongue in cheek, satirical, and self-aware. To put it succinctly, "lighten up."
I've given this 10 across the board. That does not mean it has Art as good as a Ghibli film, or sound design as good as a Jojo series. Things must be judged in the proper context, and in the context of a five minute youtube video created by a single person as a passion project, it is indeed worthy of the highest praise.
The humor hits all the marks. Most are immediately thrown off guard by the human-like faces on the animals, and by the same person doing all of the voices. I think the divisiveness probably first really hits when the bee, describing the last time the bear asked him for honey, does an exaggerated, sexualized mockery of the bear. If you find a grown man's girlish moans of a human-faced bee saying "lick lick" in Japanese funny, you'll probably enjoy the rest.
Most laudable is the voice acting, which constantly lampshades its low budget-ness as Taniguchi, instead of inserting sound effects, simply uses the Japanese onomatopoeia: instead of a building shaking he simply drolly states "go go go go, go go go go" (rumble rumble). And the carefully chosen gaffes "ぺーおれペンギンだよ" (Pe-- I'm a penguin!) that sound (and perhaps are) ad-libed add to the charm.
Like all humor, not everyone will enjoy it, but for those that do like myself, it has secured a special place in my mind of the vault of classics that the internet has produced.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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