An Analysis of the Works of Yasushi Mezin

One reason why Yasuomi Umesu's works are little known is the restrictive content, which leads to a small audience: he often dabbles in H animation. For example, the three animations to be mentioned this time, violence, blood and pornography, all the elements that will be labeled as 18 are included. However, his works are by no means based on sexual content, so H animation fans who go to see sexual descriptions may not be satisfied, which leads to awkward positioning. Therefore, his works are highly respected among a small number of diehards and highly praised abroad.

Personally, I think Yasuomi Umesu's works are best at dealing with action scenes, which are fluent and concise, and full of visual stimulation. It can be said that they have reached a kind of "violence aesthetics" (I really don't know who coined this evil word to describe people's pleasure in venting violence), and the effect expressed is very cinematic (some works of Anju Meixiu have been seen by Hollywood in recent days and are ready to be adapted into movies. Is there a reason for this? Of course, this is all guaranteed by high painting quality. OVA works are of the quality level of the theatrical version (30 minutes 1200 paintings). Some people say that the quality of his works is really consistent with that of the original paintings. His works, especially the female characters, are unrealistic as far as people are concerned, but the stories are realistic. These three animations are all about crimes, and the world outlook gives people a gray feeling. Most of the works end in tragedy.

There's a serious spoiler down there. Be careful.

Yasuomi Umesu's earliest supervision work was in the robot carnival of 1987. Robot Carnival is a collection of eight independent short stories about robots. Except for a few narratives in Hiroyuki Kitakubo's Meiji Civilization Qitan and Living in Beauty, the rest are silent movies with only music and pictures. (But these two stories are also the best. The story present is mainly like this: in an unknown hut in the forest, he built a woman with a soul. She said, "I really want to fall in love with someone", but he remembered his wife and was afraid. He needed a robot, not a person, so he turned her into a dead thing. Decades later, when he met a robot woman like a cobweb again, he finally faced up to his feelings. This is a rather sad story.

After that, 1 1 year passed, and the OVA kite (1998) that settled in Meixiu surfaced. Two rolls of eggs, about 53 minutes in total. The story of Kite is not complicated, that is, a scumbag of a killer organization killed the girl's parents and took possession of her, and cultivated her into a top killer. Finally, the girl finally retaliated against the scumbag and killed him. There is a looming love between a young girl and a young male killer who is ready to quit the same organization. Finally, the man was killed by another girl killer. A kite. . This film by Mazin Tyson Chak is very famous. When I first saw it before, it was translated into "kite" in Chinese. At that time, I thought the whole movie had no content except violence and pornography. Nevertheless, it is different from some strange Japanese movies of the same type, and I think it is doing well. Yasuomi Umesu's statement is also quite interesting. The motivation for making this film is not only Huang Xing's chance, but also: everyone has a desire (desire? I hope, because I'm tired of the old story of punishing evil and promoting good; I want to make some stories that meet my desire.

In the same year, Mezzo forte (1998) tells the story of a trio selling mechanical dolls involved in a gang plot to seize power. The same two volumes of OVA, a total of about 60min. Mezzo forte's musical name is "sub-strong sound", so I directly translated Mezzo forte into "sub-strong sound"-just corresponding to the rhythm of the film, if there is a Chinese name. Later, "Mezzo Forte" swept away the gloomy style of "A Kite" and changed the story content to be light and a bit funny. However, whether it is the OVA version or the TV version, I still don't think it can surpass the level of a kite.

Five years later, Mezzo forte released an all-age sequel, Dangerous Agents (Mezzo DSA, 2003), with a total of 13 words on TV.

The DSA in Mezzo DSA is the abbreviation of Danger Service Agency, which means "Dangerous Agency Bank".

Five years later, that is, ten years after the kite came out, the sequel of a kite, The Kite Liberator, 2008, was finally put on the shelves on March 2, 2008-before that, a kite also released a 3-disc collector's edition in 2007. This time, The Kite Liberator is very harmonious, only violence without H, from kite to kite flying, from the original monotonous killer theme to the space theme, the war between man and beast. The killer girl in the previous work has become a big sister with children. I'm afraid the child was left by a dead killer. But of course, you will also find some traditions left over from the previous work, such as shooting in the toilet-in fact, this is the complex of settling down and being beautiful, and the "toilet complex", such as the kidnapping of the underworld boss in Strong Voice, started from the toilet.

The so-called trilogy of lodging in the United States actually refers to the trilogy of lodging in the United States. Apart from the kite and Mezzo forte mentioned above, the rest is Yellow Star, which is a pure H-oriented animation with no nutrition, but it should be noted that the producer of Yellow Star is not Yasuomi Umesu. He is only in charge of Huang Xing's storyboard. Like Megazone 23 (1985), Yasuomi Umesu is responsible for the storyboard besides the painting supervision of Megazone 23, because in fact the storyboard should be supervised by the director, so whoever uses the storyboard is doomed to be branded with the story. So, on the whole, I think Huang Xing is "the shame of living in beauty". (Tip: Storyboard, that is, split-screen script, summarizes the main actions and narrative process of movie paragraphs or films in the form of cartoons, sketches, paintings or photos in the order of comic strips. Widely used in animation production and TV advertising planning for customers to review. People who do this are called "Taiwan Province storyboard painters" and storyboard artists. ) Huang Xing is the seventh work in the Cool Device series. Because the role setting (also a mirror) is Yasuomi Umesu, the painting style is obvious, but the director didn't notice it. It sounds a bit like the second part of MEGAZONE23. Ichir? Itano, the director, is very famous, but Mizuho's performance is also very good. The content tells the story of a middle-aged criminal policeman who remarried with a drag bottle, and a middle school girl ......................, as for Huang Xing, is the name of a psychedelic drug in the play.

In fact, both H in Kite and H in Strong Sound are dispensable, and the part other than H is the essence, that is, the rhythm and violent aesthetics of the beautiful painting.

Although Yasuomi Umesu publicly stated that he is a fan of rob cohen, quentin tarantino and others, he is also a fan of other people in Hollywood. For example, Trinity's double-shot appearance in The Matrix is actually a tribute to a kite.

However, I wonder if Uncle Mei said that he is a fan of rob cohen just because he heard that the Hollywood live-action movie Kite of Kite will be directed by rob cohen, the director of Extreme Agent (xXx, 2002).

The fact is that Hollywood is really unreliable, even more unreliable than Shu Mei's output. For example, the theatrical animation Kiss and Cry, adapted from his own short comic works, is called The Romance of Japan, the United States and South Korea. Therefore, since the news came out at the SICAF Animation Festival in Seoul, South Korea in 2003, it has never appeared again. However, in recent days, it has been reported that it will be released in 2009. I don't know if it is true or not. The real version of the kite completely sank to the bottom of the sea.

Of course, the low output is an excellent by-product to some extent. Moreover, we should see that these works supervised by Uncle Yasushi Misu in the last example cover almost all of the original works, such as scripts, character design, shots and so on, and the workload can be imagined. For such a big producer, he knows exactly what he is doing and what kind of rhythmic picture he wants to make, so I quite appreciate such a figure; This happened to Shinichir? Watanabe-Uncle Watanabe is a genius, and his mastery of the harmony between pictures and music is unparalleled.

If Shinichir? Watanabe is a talented animation producer, An Zhumei is a pragmatic producer. On the other hand, this low output of Meijin Chen Tai reflects that this guy actually spends most of his time doing odd jobs for others (the theme is omitted below):

In 1999, he was the main animator of the 3-volume OVA animation "Sol Bianca: Legacy". Sol Bianca is the name of a spaceship. The story is about the adventures of four female pirates in the universe. There are star cowboys everywhere, but if they meet them, I'm afraid one will chase and the other will run away. The world outlook of Ship of the Sun is somewhat similar to that of the American drama battlestar galactica. As the birthplace of civilization, the earth has become a legendary existence.

Sol Bianca series published several volumes of OVA in 199 1 and 1997 before.

1997 acted as a role designer in the OVA animation Hen, Strange Love. The story is roughly the love between teachers and students and other messy and unreliable love. This is the OVA of the TV series of the same name of 1996. 18 is banned! ? In the TV series of 1996, Anju Meisu is also a teacher.

1997 worked as a teacher in Kimera. This is an OVA animation for nearly an hour. The producer is Kazuyuki Yokota, and his masterpieces include My Long Legs Daddy and Leiji Matsumoto's Little Universe Warrior Zero. The story mainly tells that a group of alien vampires from a planet called Izato were repelled by humans when they invaded the earth. Because they can't reproduce themselves, they brought back an earth woman. Later, this woman became the mother of three vampires, namely Kimera, Ginsu and Kianu.

Kimera, hermaphrodite, green hair and natural beauty.

Ginsu, on the other hand, is a freak with many tentacles. He wants to possess Kimera, dreams of creating more vampires and then occupying the earth, so that human beings can make cattle and horses for him.

Kianu, like Kimera, is born beautiful, but like Ginsu, she is a man, and this man is basically like a eunuch and can't have children. Kianu decided to stop Ginsu's earth invasion plan by killing Kimera.

Their spaceship to Earth crashed in Japan, and Jinzu and Kianu escaped, but Kimera was kept in the freezer at the air base. At this time, our human hero appeared, and Osama and his friend Jay visited the air base-because Jay's father worked at the air base, Osama met Jinmeila in an explosion, rescued her from the freezer and fell in love with her. Kimera lost her memory because of the matriarchal experiment. The "matriarchal" gave her a setting to recognize Kianu as the first person she saw when she woke up and fell in love with him, so Kimera mistook Osamu for Kianu falling in love with him. Then Jinzu and Kianu died for Kimera. Kimera and Osamu lived happily ever after. Osamu not only provided Kimera with love, but also provided him with blood.

Kimera actually comes from English Chimera. The word originally refers to the fire-breathing female monster in Greek mythology, but now it refers to a special phenomenon in zoology, which means that two fertilized eggs of an animal fuse together and grow into an individual. At the home of American TV series S3.2cain &; This is the story of Eibl.

Chimerism can also occur in humans, so the setting of this story is not groundless. According to statistics, there are currently 30 cases of chimera in the world. For some special circumstances, Chimera people may be composed of one man and one woman, two men and two women. A chimera person may have two sets of sex organs at the same time.

Here is a concrete case: In 2002, when Lydia fairchild divorced, she applied to the hospital for a DNA report and social assistance, only to find that the child was not hers. She applied to the hospital for a DNA report again, and the result was still the same. Although there is a video to prove that the child was indeed born from her stomach, there are certificates from doctors and nurses present; But fairchild was still accused of abducting other people's children and defrauding social welfare, and was forced to be separated from her children. Later, it was discovered that fairchild was originally a human chimera. The DNA of her hair and skin is completely different from that of her uterus, which means that there are actually two people living in her body, but one of them is unconscious. Finally, the court withdrew the complaint.

This androgynous setting is actually very common. Have you ever seen the midnight bell? This is how Sadako works.

1996 was painted in the theatrical animation "Lu Bang III: Life and Death". The story mainly tells that Liu Bang and his friends went to a country called Zufu (implying Iran or Iraq) to look for treasure on a floating island. The island's defense system is very strong, so Lv Bang has to find a way to bypass this defense line. At the same time, they have to watch out for the local barbarian police and bounty hunter Zenica, because Lu Bang is wanted and offers a reward of one million yuan, dead or alive.

1996 was painted in the TV animation Children's Toys.

Miho Obana, the original comic book of A Doll's House, should be familiar to everyone? Little Lori Kuroda Shinan, a little girl with a big child, and Qiu Ren, a little man with a big child ... people who have never seen such a classic thing go to the palace to make some contributions to the ecological balance between men and women.

The animated version of Doll's Game is produced by Akitaro Daichi, and you can also see many works produced by this guy, especially Comic Book Day and Peace.

The animated version of a doll's game has a huge capacity, with 5 1 characters in primary school and junior high school respectively. I don't want to compare it with Conan Huo Ying's One Piece, so I thought of the animated version of A Moment Together.

1994 worked as a painting director and designer in the OVA animation Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman.

This is the Japanese version of Teenage Ninja Turtles. Besides the Japanese version, I still remember that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has a live-action movie in Hong Kong.

1993 is a painting in OVA animation, which is called African wind (African wind).

The person in charge of this work is Kazuo Yamazaki, an old comrade who is nearly sixty years old. He is the producer of Mamoru Nagano's 89-year-old version of The Tale of Five Stars, and another cartoon adaptation of 1993 Guardian of the Earth.

Memory Gone with the Wind is adapted from Kikuchi Hideyuki's novel. From the style of painting, we can clearly see that the characters are set as Jiecheng Xinhui, and Hideyuki Kikuchi and Jiecheng Xinhui are old friends, such as vampire hunters D, やまざきかずぉ and Jiecheng Xinhui.

"Memories Gone with the Wind" is a story about the end of the world, set in1990s. A gust of wind blew, and everyone lost their memories and civilization collapsed.

1993 as a painting director and designer in OVA animation "Ellcia".

Basically, this is a story of the confrontation mode between good and evil. Both sides of the story are pirates of good and evil. In order to defeat each other, you must first find an ancient ship named Elsia.

The story is set in steampunk, with swords, guns, pirates, magic and even high technology. That's basically it.

199 1 painted in the theatrical animation Urusei Yatsura 6: Always my darling.

The original Rumiko Takahashi, the sixth theatrical animation. Not much to say.

1988 as a painter and special effects in the theater animation Akira (visual effects as cg animation artist: high-tech laboratory).

Label: Big Friends Win Bo, Milestone. Not much to say.

1988 was painted in the theater animation Tomb of Fireflies (the tombstone of fireflies).

Tags: Gao Tianxun, Miyazaki Hayao, Studio Ghibli, war reflection, touching.

1988, in the Gundam series "Gundam: Chalk's Counter-attack" (Gundam: Chalk's Counter-attack)

1987 acted as an actor in Lily C.A.T Lily's story is a little different. The story happened on a spaceship. The crew on the trip is only one year old every 20 years. At this moment, a crime happened. The crew must find the source of the virus, or they will be killed one by one.

In addition, Yasuomi Umesu also appeared in Ichir? Itano in Angel Cop (1989) and Mori Masaki in Kiku Journey (Jik? There are no Tabuteau, 1986), Outlander s (1986), revenge of ninja soldiers (revenge of ninja soldiers, the blade of great power), SF freshman Ki Lensman (Lensman: the secret of the camera, 1984) in Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and barefoot Genma in Mori Masaki,/kl.