Audience reviews
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HanezeveAbyss
Story:
Furiko is brief but still manages to convey a meaningful message. It is a story of a man full of regrets and how he deals with the sad reality that time can't be reset. Most men will eventually experience this at some point in their lifetime. It is a simple story, but one that is rare in this medium. It is touching and realistic. This special is a necessary watch.
Character:
The main character, most of the time, is indifferent towards others. He is a pessimist and a klutz, but one who is common among humans. He is someone many adults can relate, but not celebrate. His daily life is a painful cycle of adulthood. It's not that this guy had hit rock bottom or anything, but he lacks appreciation of the people around him. One can be jealous of the life he has, but for some reason, he l…
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I'm inclined to not like these kind of experimental + sentimental shorts. It takes the premium sap of a melodrama, searches for some kind of novel motif that can be repeated throughout, lest it become too trite, slaps on wedding music you might find on the Hallmark channel, and then you can proceed to let your tears form a river, if you are so inclined.
Does taking the standard story of boy meets girl, the formation of a family, and then growing old together, stripping out all of the substance and universalizing it, lead to a more artistic or worthwhile short? Would a longer work that adds the parts in-between the highlights shown here be better? It's always a matter of execution, but there's such a depersonalized everyman quality to this that it rings hollow. A long-form work can allow t…
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This isn't something long so I will make a short and sweet review.
Story - 6
Art - 8
Sound - 8
Character - 6
Enjoyment - 6
Overall - 6.8 (7)
Tekken's Furiko/Pendulum is a rather manipulative, but sweet short story of a delinquent man and soft woman, as they grow together whilst time passes. It has everything a sob story needs to work. A sweet relationship, melodrama, family issues. It's got the entire formula. Despite this unoriginality, it still presents itself successfully, in that, its cheerful to sorrowful fall is still worth the while to watch. The audiovisuals are interesting, with watching this, there is a noticeable theme presented with the pendulum in itself. The pendulum acts as a camera for most of the duration of the story with the pendulum bob being the screen that physicall…
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[STORY: 8/10]
Furiko has only three minutes to convey its story, and it completely nails it without any words being spoken. As a flipbook, you wouldn't expect it to do much of anything besides be a cool little animation, but this is so much more than most. Every frame counts and works to tell us an emotionally gripping story about a man who regrets his mistakes and tries to turn back time to fix them, only to realize that his denial won't allow for his retribution by means of doing the impossible. It really hits home the inevitability of time and how you should use it as best you can because you can never get it back once it's gone.
[ART: 7/10]
The art isn't amazing by any means, but for a flipbook, it works and my expectations aren't as high as they would be for a full-on animated series…
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A story about two people, they meet by a lucky encounter, the women falls in love and by time the men follows. It is a simple story, one that all of us live through, it is a story about life.
In this 3 minute video there was almost as much emotion as a 12-24 episode emotion and drama filled anime. As the pendulum swings time passes by and we are able to witness their life, the happy moments and the sad ones, their regrets and grief. Since there isn't much to review in this video other then the story and since I don't want to spoil anything, I will just explain what I learned from the video.
The first thing that I learned from this video was how much a single choice can have difference in our life, we often forget how much each of the choices we choose in our daily life effect us because…
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You see that, right? It is your life through the eyes of a man, it is the life that happens without realizing, leaving us wounds entwined between moments of happiness that we pass by.
This short reveals how time brings us surprises, good and bad, there are always of them. He also shows us how a man who most of his life is angry, because he feels frustrated, not having the life he had and can lose the only joy left, which was always there waiting for him at the door. Touching many times, if you were there, seeing the signals, as those moments will not be repeated.
This short teaches us to value our existence, our life, knowing that we write our own history, is not destiny, we put restrictions, a barrier that blinds us to the truth that is closed to our stubbornness. We must realize befo…
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Pendulum is a 2012 animated short film, and throughout its three minutes the short features a clock’s swinging pendulum to show the passage of time and transition the images of a man’s marriage. I was worried this would be like another short film called House of Small Cubes in that it aims for the heart strings but by featuring such a generic life it doesn’t gain the impact from pulling off such worn sentiments in art. To my surprise, Pendulum is far more personal and doesn’t try to represent every man’s life so much as a specific one, and thus its emotional impact is more defined and we know the actual significance of the imagery as it actually feels like the narration of a man’s subconscious…
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In many instances in the anime medium, different short works with low budget go unnoticed which is and a damn shame because many of them are good with some better than others. *cough shitcom.
Furiko also known as pendulum is an anime short that details the lives of a couple and how there relationship develops and gets strained in the windy road of love. I don't want to spoil anything but even though the animation isn't that impressive, the style kills it and the melancholy music in the background is top notch.
If you want a short and bittersweet anime check this out.
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Furiko (Pendulum) is a rather pleasant gem. It's an anime short that manages to capture and invoke emotions in its viewers that's sometimes unattainable by the likes of 20 minute episode series. Where many fail it succeeded with elegance and modesty.
It immerses you into the lives of a couple in an authentic way. It doesn't force itself upon the viewer but gently glides into focus. And with its simplistic flip-book inspired visuals and accompanying somber musical backing, it's able to tell a coherent story that's woven together beautifully.
This is a short tale that leaves an awe inspiring message to any viewer invested into it, no matter your background or demographic. It shows the bittersweet flow of time through the guise of a swinging pendulum. Striped of any unnecessary elements it…
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The first thing that came to mind when I watched it was the beginning scene of Disney's Up. Similar to Up, Furiko takes us on a quick and enjoyable albeit clichéd journey of two people falling in love. The story of Furiko could probably fit into a dozen animes/ mangas, which may result in some disliking it because it brings nothing new to the table, but I still found it enjoyable. Probably because I'm a sucker for stories such as this. Anyway, the story proceeds as such: bad boy saves model student from other bad boys and she falls in love with him. He gets annoyed at first but eventually gives in and changes himself for her. They grow up, encounter their share of monetary issues, they power through but in the end she gets a terminal illness. I knew it was coming, but it still made me feel…
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Pendulum not trying to embellish reality, she is represented as. This beautiful and sad animated flip-book is like a drama, all the emotions spend.
Also very tragic. One can easily immerse in the context.
This animation is authentic, it shows Japan as!
The portrait of so many families in Japan ... Life for a Japanese man is his work, always staying out late, drinking Friday night etc.. As a result, the family passes behind, no time for us and without he realizes, he finds himself in retirement.
When he realizes all this, it's too late ... He tries to stop the clock, it symbolically shows that he wants to stop time, but again, it's too late ...
The implicit message that the author wants us to understand is that: time flies, you should take advantage and pick up his life before it was damag…
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It's unfortunate that so many brilliant animated shorts in Japan are largely obscure to western audiences. It's also unexpected that a Japanese comedian, going by the pseudonym "Tekken", was able to capture the hearts of millions with two short, dialogue-less, and crudely drawn animations. The following covers the first of the two, entitled "Furiko" (otherwise known as Pendulum).
You don't need words to tell a beautiful story. It's such a rare thing to see in recent anime, but Takefumi Kurashina takes the medium and strips it to its rawest form - basic animation, simple music, and an uncomplicated plot. Telling the story of a man's journey through life and love, the narrative is done beautifully and flows effortlessly, and is an entirely silent affair. That being said, Furiko plays on its…
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