10. Paranoia Agent (2004)
Satoshi Kon was so content with his cooperation with Madhouse that immediately after the end of producing Tokyo Godfathers, he proposed to shoot a TV anime series. The script would be based upon a few of his concepts, which he had not used before, as much as upon newspapers' headlines, particularly their crime and social ones. The leadership of the company accepted, thus initiating the creation of the 13 episodes of Paranoia Agent.
A series of attacks occur in Tokyo, seemingly to individuals irrelevant to each other. The victims do not seem to recollect any facial characteristic of the perpetrator; however, they all state that he looked like a high school student in terms of figure and that he was wearing golden roller skates, baseball cap and he was carrying a sort of arched baseball bat.
The attacks gain publicity due to their frequency, resulting to the creation of an urban legend about the culprit, who everyone calls Shonen Bat. Detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa investigate the case, attempting to arrest the violator and to discover any affiliation between the victims.
This time, the script does not only mix fantasy and reality; it dissolves every boundary between them, with the latter imposing on the former and vice versa.
His usual social remark …show more content…
However, this is where Kon's genius lies. The presentation of the characters, along with the animation of the environment and the music score culminate in such a visually accomplished result, that the spectator has to sit and watch it voicelessly, even when the lack of cohesion in the script is quite evident. It is the kind of oneiric cinema that appears in Wim Wenders' and Wong Kar Wai's films, which is perceived with senses rather than
Satoshi Kon was so content with his cooperation with Madhouse that immediately after the end of producing Tokyo Godfathers, he proposed to shoot a TV anime series. The script would be based upon a few of his concepts, which he had not used before, as much as upon newspapers' headlines, particularly their crime and social ones. The leadership of the company accepted, thus initiating the creation of the 13 episodes of Paranoia Agent.
A series of attacks occur in Tokyo, seemingly to individuals irrelevant to each other. The victims do not seem to recollect any facial characteristic of the perpetrator; however, they all state that he looked like a high school student in terms of figure and that he was wearing golden roller skates, baseball cap and he was carrying a sort of arched baseball bat.
The attacks gain publicity due to their frequency, resulting to the creation of an urban legend about the culprit, who everyone calls Shonen Bat. Detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa investigate the case, attempting to arrest the violator and to discover any affiliation between the victims.
This time, the script does not only mix fantasy and reality; it dissolves every boundary between them, with the latter imposing on the former and vice versa.
His usual social remark …show more content…
However, this is where Kon's genius lies. The presentation of the characters, along with the animation of the environment and the music score culminate in such a visually accomplished result, that the spectator has to sit and watch it voicelessly, even when the lack of cohesion in the script is quite evident. It is the kind of oneiric cinema that appears in Wim Wenders' and Wong Kar Wai's films, which is perceived with senses rather than