Ancient Prince and Michael Jackson would find each other in every lifetime.
This was honestly a great ride. I wasn't quite sold for the first 20 minutes or so because I just had no idea really what was going on, but once the realization of the Heike sprites happened, the movie picked up pace and basically never dropped it. Super fun, was nodding my head along to all of the music they played. It really sucks that because this wasn't released by a big animation studio like Ghibli it hasn't seemed to get a great deal of buzz online, I've never heard anyone talk about this before. Just decided to watch it on a whim.
The themes of how art spurs the passage of time and how that same art that resonates with so many people is also seen as a threat to power were quite potent to me. The music, the stories and the performances that Inu-Oh and Tomona put together caused crowd reactions that felt so authentic to how music sensations could've been like back then but are obviously so salient to how music is experienced today that it really made me upset when the Shogun revealed the stories were no longer allowed to be told by state decree. In a way I'm disappointed in Inu-Oh for abandoning the art that he and Tomona dedicated their lives to, but the price of his head when he's just getting to experience life normally for the first time might have been a little much to ask.
There's so much I liked about this, between the animation, the music, the character development, and ESPECIALLY the lore. I don't really know whether the Heike were real people or something, but the mythical stories and artifacts associated with them were so cool that I would totally take a second dive into this world to see more of these artifacts like the one that cut Tomona's dad in half simply by being unsheathed?? That was fucking sick man. What a fun watch
Ancient Prince and Michael Jackson would find each other in every lifetime.
This was honestly a great ride. I wasn't quite sold for the first 20 minutes or so because I just had no idea really what was going on, but once the realization of the Heike sprites happened, the movie picked up pace and basically never dropped it. Super fun, was nodding my head along to all of the music they played. It really sucks that because this wasn't released by a big animation studio like Ghibli it hasn't seemed to get a great deal of buzz online, I've never heard anyone talk about this before. Just decided to watch it on a whim.
The themes of how art spurs the passage of time and how that same art that resonates with so many people is also seen as a threat to power were quite potent to me. The music, the stories and the performances that Inu-Oh and Tomona put together caused crowd reactions that felt so authentic to how music sensations could've been like back then but are obviously so salient to how music is experienced today that it really made me upset when the Shogun revealed the stories were no longer allowed to be told by state decree. In a way I'm disappointed in Inu-Oh for abandoning the art that he and Tomona dedicated their lives to, but the price of his head when he's just getting to experience life normally for the first time might have been a little much to ask.
There's so much I liked about this, between the animation, the music, the character development, and ESPECIALLY the lore. I don't really know whether the Heike were real people or something, but the mythical stories and artifacts associated with them were so cool that I would totally take a second dive into this world to see more of these artifacts like the one that cut Tomona's dad in half simply by being unsheathed?? That was fucking sick man. What a fun watch
