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The Thaw

The Thaw

Introduction

The short film tells the story of a young boy, who as a result of seeing a dog's corpse, becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him. (Source: Wochi Kochi)

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 4.02/10 · 3119

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Audience reviews

8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.

CorsairFrosty

*Spoiler warning!* *VERY SHORT REVIEW!!* You ever just regret something. Doing something, making something, creating something. Well, I just did that. I just watched the most randomly-disturbing thing I have ever seen. It was so boring, and so quiet. There was no story, and overall it was the worst "anime" I have ever seen. (If you could even call it a anime..?) also, the art was REALLY disturbing, and disgusting. Most of the time you couldn't even make out what the heck you were even looking at. Only reason I would recommend this to someone is to make them question life. :) (I also only found this cause of a Akidearest video I was watching.)

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n0hx

see, most people get the wrong idea about this amazing show. You are to dense to see through to what is really happening. this is an ordinary boy and it is clearly portraying the imagination of a small child going through an emotional trauma such as the loss of a family pet. give this show a try, and see through it for yourself. Find the light in the show. and make it what you believe it to be !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! I was really wrong about this show, but after watching it over 50 times I finally realized I was being deceived by these creators. 2004 was a great year just because of this show. I will always look back and reflect on what I saw and try ot turn it into a positive experience to keep with me for the res tof my life. thank you for reading my review

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kafkaesk

As someone who used to have phobias, I think this is a pretty accurate way to deliver it. I had goosebumps all over again because all of this sounded and looked so similar to something I had a long time ago. It scared me even. The music has a creepy surreal ambient about it that makes the animation appear even more strange. It's just so easy to develop phobias, and that's exactly what happens here. You might develop a phobia after watching this, just for the sake of remembering weird hyperfixations on ''living'' things and how it used to gross or scare you. I think it's both grotesque and interesting to watch. I recommend this for anyone who likes alternative styles to todays animations / animes. Story: While it's mostly visually referring to what possible could be the plot, it's stil…

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VoidRace

The thaw is a conceptual work by Kei Oyama, detailing a boy that, upon seeing a dogs entrails falling out of its corpse, began to develop a phobia of every single thing around him. The work is just that. It has no special meaning beyond that, or at least none that is sewn into the work itself; you would have to add that meaning yourself. It is simply the story of a boy devolving into a paranoid mess. It does this well, the art aiding to the visceral concept and showing the perception of the world around the boy slowing deteriorating. The droning, noisy sound like a throbbing headache that only gets worse. It all aids to showing us an already disturbing world slowing getting worse and worse for him, until we close out with the boy seeing all things as disturbing and horrific. There's no…

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Sidewinder51

Rate a 4 Japanese Raw plot Introduction was a bit interesting a few questions were raised. Such as who did the deed? Was it natural or unnatural? Did the main character have any connection to its fate? Did the ___ belong to the main character or a stray? To some extent a good mystery. As the film progressed the idea of a mystery died out as the film started to grow increasingly disturbing. Congratulations for a horror it did make me ill. Even though i couldn't quite capture what the main character was saying the artwork did a fine job of elaborating his expressions. Not so well in announcing the story though. Ending was not good. It could have been increasingly better. My understanding of the story that it went with the evil of the world is now visible. And all previewed innocence is no…

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ProfaneValkyrie

Mom, I am at the Internet´s weird place again, how do I get away from it?.... This is one of the milder WTF shocker videos with lesser horror elements(The "realistic" eyes was so creepy XD) Even though it is really, really weird then it still seems to have a somewhat of a plot, a meaning. A boy sees through the window (his) dead dog with guts out of the stomach, slowly it seems that he has gone into a state of shock and slowly his view upon the world becomes corrupted where everything starts to become grotesque even himself. This is probably because he is faced with death and begins to see death in everything, his else believed immortality breaks and he sees how vulnerable he really is, just like all the other living things around him BUT I might being interpreting this WAY too deep XD h…

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WhatDothLife

Yukidoke (The Thaw) is a conceptual work. In of itself, it shows the viewer the perspective of a boy who sees a dog's carcass, and from then on plunges into his own fears. Due to the nature of the film being short, it doesn't leave a lot to see, but a lot to interpret. The visuals are haunting, disturbing, memorable. The sound, minimal, but droning. Dread is the key word here; it's heavy, demented, and sickly. The negatives come with the character. There isn't much here in regards to that; the short film is more about the atmosphere, the feeling it gives, rather than the characters themselves. Overall, this is a good short, not really meant to be considered "anime", but still important in terms of Japanese animation. 7/9/7/5/8/7

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xProdigal

I entered "evangelion" into the search bar of the streaming site I used and for some reason it took me to the page for this (the site is known to have a weird search function). It was tagged as dementia, I clicked on it and seeing it was only 6 minutes long I decided to watch it. I'm not entirely sure what the animator was trying to do with this, I'm not even sure the animator knew what they were trying to do with this. It's poorly drawn, crudely animated, sounds like it was recorded on a built-in laptop microphone, grotesque, off-putting, and doesn't even have any english subs. Despite this, it is possibly one of the most unique things I have ever seen and left enough of an impression on me that I decided to write this review, when I've never written a review before. It was the most un…

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