https://vimeo.com/176099556
This is a relatively obscure music video that Ghibli put out in 1995, when Miyazaki was suffering from writer's block on Princess Mononoke. It was supposed to be included in a Ghibli short anthology, but Disney dropped it after the singer for the song was arrested on drug charges in 2014
Man I miss how beautiful 2-D animation is/was
I think my favorite thing about this is how you can just tell how much of a wise-ass glasses guy is
https://www.iamag.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/on-your-mark-2.jpg
I've watched this several times and I keep on forgetting it was made by Studio Ghibli, not Gainax.
There's always been something really cathartic for me about 90s anime. It's hard to put into words exactly where that feeling comes from, but this hits it square on the nose.
I think the reason I like older animation over newer animation is the fact that someone had to hand draw every hand, and not do it in a computer, giving it some sort of actual presence and character. Just look at all of the minor differences in each frame, the tiny amounts of dust and damage.
I only just watched Akira, Castle in the sky and Cowboy BeBop a year ago and i'm still astonished by how beautiful the art styles of that era of anime are.
A cool thing about On Your Mark is that the lyrics talk about trying and trying and refusing to give up, and the music video isnon-linear
The apartment slums and tunnel have signs in Chinese, with the tunnel signs warning of the radiation exposure outside and the risk of death.
I am confused as to where them falling out of the truck comes into play in the whole story.
The two cops are so motivated to rescue the angel that they don't give up, every time they fail. And there's some kind of time loop or cyclical reality and every time chronology rolls around to the angel being captured from the cult, they try to rescue her and adapt their strategies to get past what they failed on before. That or there's some multi-universe thing using the sheaf-of-many-worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics going on.
Falling out of the truck is both a failure attempt in one reality/time loop and shows that the angel is afraid and isn't ready to fly...literally. Next time through the cycle: VTOL TRUCK TO THE RESCUE
Slightly offtopic, but if we're talking vintage japanese animation I'd like to plug this little known gem from back in the day; Robot Carnival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdHVE9xRUs
I's a fantasia-esque anthology of (with the exception of two of them) dialouge free short films, and they were done by some of the more well-known japanese artists before they were well-known.
If you've got the time and love this sort of animation, be sure to check it out. It's a personal favorite of mine, and I sincerely hope more people discover it.
Gonna go ahead and plug Metropolis if you want something that's lavishly animated.
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