Introduction
In the not so distant future, to cope with the traffic jams and verticalization due to the increased population, the city of Tokyo was reconstructed under the theme of city sharing in which people share the urbane space by transforming the roads and city structure by time of the day. A woman named Nico is walking in the city. She is having her long-awaited day off; however, she does not know what to do and who to hang out with. She hopes an exciting thing suddenly happens.
Then, a truck passes right before her eyes. The loud music and flashy decoration of the vehicle reminds Nico the car it that everyone's talking about on the internet. As soon as Nico sees it, she runs after it, then runs into Gatsu and Makito. Nico gets in their latest A-Class and they chase after the truck driving through the city that is changing its form rapidly.
(Source: AniDB)
Audience reviews
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mistersunday
Well... if the story would've had a little bit more direction Mercedes could've made Next A-Class look less like a capitalist marketing scheme.
Overall, I thought that Next A-Class had good animation and decent sound combined with a promising set up. Having the entire short take place during a high-speed car chase was fun and it had potential to present a cool yet interesting story. I wasn't expecting a transcendent message or anything, but even with 6 minutes there could've been some kind of takeaway... instead Mercedes just shows us a futuristic car that doesn't even exist (at least not with those specs). It was clear that the story was built around the promotion of the company rather than trying to weave the promotion of the company into an already compelling short story. Ultimately, t…
Read at the source-Elina-
The Chase is on! With the New A Class Mercedes
The Mercedes-AMG A 35 4MATIC hunchback is getting a advertisement thru japan animation with a amazing storyline ever heard of the urban legend? THE RAMEN NOODLES vans! Filled with delicious ramen and a very improved engine inside
The story itself is pretty straight forward it will make you laugh especially if you love cars just like me
The Animation surprise me with the amazing concept of the future city with great detail and the chase action of the cars the characters are well made
This anime is recommended for car enthusiast and its amazing that it was made by Mercedes themselves
Read at the sourceFantasyJared
Have you ever heard of the legendary Ramen Noodle truck? The only way to get a taste is to catch up with it. Enter Next A-Class, a surprisingly flashy and fun little time considering it is literally a six-minute Japanese car advertisement made in 2012. Despite how short it is, however, the adrenaline rush you'll get watching this anime short is nothing short of thrilling.
By and large the best part of this short is the animation. You'd think it wouldn't have much effort put into it, but by lord Frith himself, is this a damn good looking Original Net Animation. The amount of detail and effort crammed into the unbelievably short runtime is simply astounding, and it's more than likely the first thing you'll notice when watching it. It's realistic, colorful, at times even breathtaking, and en…
Read at the sourceShiionKoro
This is really, really cool!
Such an amazing idea from Mercedes, to advertise their A-Class through a short anime movie!
It's basically about a girl, whose bike got taken away for parking wrong or something like that. On her way home I guess, she saw the legendary Ramen truck passing her. Luckily, two dudes noticed it as well and she got into their A-Class Mercedes and chased it down.
First, they lost it, but after a while it passed them again.
After making a dangerous stunt with the car, they finally got to eat the ramen.
But the owner mentions a legendary tofu truck...
Not much to say about story and characters, but the artstyle of this fascinated me...
8/10 for this amazing idea to advertise a car!
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 5
English Subtitled
Story
A bit confusing. At first glance there is a mention of an event that took form. Whether it was true or not is debatable. Then shortly after a chase for a legend begins. The problem was that slight mention in the beginning was not relevant at all to the story. Since the beginning event was so brief the viewers are forced to rewind and play back to see if that was the subject from earlier. While that is good way to cause revisits in views in truth it is aggravating plot wise. Plot, is suppose to lead to a gradual lead in to prevent confusion.
As for the ending another random toss-up is thrown at the viewer. You get so fixated on what it is going on to suddenly back pedal to another?
Art
Did a fine job of covering the visuals. However, the transition from t…
Read at the sourceShelbyWAO
This short was made in 2012, and for it being a short about cars it's okay, far from the best thing I have ever watched but calling it bad is a crime, and nobody wants that.
Story [4]: Yeah this story isn't that good, not the worst have I seen, and it kept my entertained throughout the whole short, but looking back, it's not good at all. This show we see our protagonist [Kuniko Kai] with two other people [Koku Ganaha and Makito Kasuya] that want to have the best time of there lives! By chasing a truck? It just seems, weird. That doesn't alone want me to watch the show at all, it makes me roll around with how dumb it is.
Art [9]: The animation and art is what makes this short for me, smooth animation and stylish art is how it's done with these types of shows. It also fast paced, fast pace…
Read at the sourceLilviscious
I find it amazing how well this animation managed to thrill me in such little time!
The background music and instant car-chase were perfectly combined and although it's a shamel there's little to no information gained about the three main characters (other than the girl's having a really bad day and they all love to chase urban legends), the created world around them is introduced amazingly well in the slightest of sci-fi themed details of the modern art-style animation. It was a delight to see the changing of the driver in the car and how the districts change after a period of time, making me crave for more information of what year it is and what technology humanity has developed. It manages to pique your interest really fast, kudos!
I love it, giving it a 8 out of 10! Wishing there to…
Read at the sourcePliers
Next A-Class is a fun and short anime. Kids driving a super A-class Mercedes-Benz goes on a high-speed chase to catch the legendary noodle stand. Best part got to be when the kids can shift seats in the car without moving.
Read at the sourceTrades46
Imagine my surprise when I saw an article on a short ONA made by Productions IG when I was browsing through a car blog.
Seeing that a German company which used to only specialize in executive/expensive automobiles that used to only target customers in their 40s with a hefty salary, this commercial comes off to me as quite revolutionary as a car enthusiast/business student and awesome as an anime fan.
This was not the first time I've seen that anime has been used as a medium as advertising. This however was the first for a non-Japanese firm, and in terms of quality, the small details in a 6 minutes short really shows. I'd give credit to those who convinced the uptight Germans in Stuttgart to put funding into this.
Story: 5
Given it's 6 minutes running length, there isn't any particular s…
Read at the sourceSasoriUzumaki
Mercedes-Benz is started to making anime hahahah..
Hmm driving through the city in Mercedes-Benz Car that's all for the story.
Companies started using anime for selling cars Yeah!!!
Car model (Mercedes-Benz A-Class).
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