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How to almost ruin something that could've been a 10/10?
1 - With hideous 3D models every other scene.
2 - With an annoying train that makes a loud and obnoxious noise every other scene.
3 - By insisting on animating pointless characters that, being visually dissonant from the rest of the art, distract you from what you really want to see.
4 - By using cringey and annoying songs all the time.
5 - With pointless CGI animations (fire, for example) that have equally pointless sound effects to accompany them.
6 - The animations... ugh...
This would've been the 10/10 I was expecting had it just stuck to what it was supposed to do: show art. But then some imbecile thought "hey maybe we should put these horrendously ugly early CGI models in the middle of it, sticking like a sore thumb, this wil…
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Why did I waste 30 minutes of my life on this. It is a virtual art gallery with irritatingly repetitive music that just gets on your nerves. If I where you I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole. This is just overall awful. Sliding images on a screen, may as well be watching a PowerPoint slideshow. Not worth watching, If you do watch it and give it above a 1, What is wrong with you. 100% rage baiting. The art isn't even that good, its just oil pastel with no real talent behind it.
giving this a 1.
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This is honestly the worst thing i have ever watched and i don't see how anyone can enjoy this monstrosity of an 'anime' people who give it a 10 are just trying to be different, awful music with mediocre art with no story what so ever, you may as well go to an art gallery instead of watching this.
I would not recommend this to anyone who actually wants to have an enjoyable time while watching something, 30 minutes felt like an hour and i was bored the entire time watching. I don't think anyone who is being honest with themselves actually enjoyed watching this and if they said they did then they're a liar
1/10
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Heard of calming music? Good. ever watched a calming video here it is. Read the synopsis properly before indulging. It definitely states what to expect.
Art style is Not exactly Good, Not Bad either but still it gives the vibe that 'Yes this fits perfectly' There's Makoto Shinkai and then there's Nouhisa Inoue, best people for aesthetics in the anime world.
Calm and Serenity are the moto of this OVA, which it fullfills down to a T. Definitely a must have for your phone gallery. Feeling under the weather, Stressed, Things becoming too bothersome lately? Lay back, wear earphones at a good volume and play this. You just plugged into Nirvana.
After watching this aesthetic piece, you're bound to say "This feels good". This was a 2007 work but the graphics still feel it's latest.
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The art style is visually nice, from what i hear Ghibili are the go to for film art and even though this is old the detail in the back ground is really amazing. However the animation is a little underwhelming from what i'm used to.
However i'm no art critque so my appreciation is not that developed yet.
The story was simple enough to follow along but not that intersting, the hardest thing about getting into this is that there are no spoken lines. It's not a silent film because of the music that accompanies it but the music seemed to almost be the same melody for 30 minutes, no grandiose type scores like in thumbelina which makes it lacking as this is the only sound you hear for thirty minutes. Overall it was intersting but not my particular tastes. I give it a six as it's not something…
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I rate anime based on how well it achieved what it set out to achieve and whether or not the goal had any real merit in the first place. Iblard Jikan's goal was to show you the beauty of an artist's inner world and it achieved that, and that's why it gets a 10 from me.
This is the stuff that dreams are made of. At the same time, this is the most sensitive portrayal of reality. If you hadn't seen reality first, then there is nothing to dream about.
What is the purpose of life? My answer is, does it matter? Does it matter where it's all going, when you see such beauty?
Sometimes on the subway, in a moment of silence, a moment of eternity, a pause in life, I’d look around at the faces around me and wonder about what kind of life they led, what problems they’re currently dealing with, wha…
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Iblard Time is a collection of paintings set to calming music. I do not like the style of music used, but I like the paintings a lot. The paintings were slightly animated as to tell a story about how the world at that location works. The colours are vibrant and the environments are fascinating to look at. There is a lot of detail in each painting, which is why there are about 5 or 6 to look at over the course of this short movie. This is a good movie to watch for people that appreciate art. You may not enjoy it because there is no overall story and no events that happen.
I enjoyed watching Iblard Time because I like good art, but it is difficult to recommend because it is nothing but art.
Read at the sourceTerajima
Medium-length movie made only by paintings drawn by the author that suffer small variations of movement and color.
Apparently there is no common thread between the images but to present a strange world that is gradually becoming known and ascending, being like a huge tower of Babel.
The drawings are beautiful, they immerse you in a state of calmness in which you can enjoy the beautiful images that are happening.
The only flaw that I put is the characters in motion, because although they seem to be part of the image when they are still when they move they become characters with a more conventional animation style who do not have such a natural look, with not so many nuances and they do not remain perfect, since they do not seem to be part of that world.
A different work that shows that…
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Iblard Jikan (Iblard Time in English), is an interesting experience. The best way to describe Iblard Jikan is that it's like looking through a window into another world, and getting a brief glimpse of the potential beauty that the world your looking at offers.
There isn't much to talk about in Iblard Jikan, as there is no real plot or characters to speak of, and there isn't really a need for one. The entire short exists just to show a slice of the world it created. What few characters we see are brief cameos by characters from other Ghibli projects that are added into the paintings, as a way of showing that the world you are watching is alive and there are stories going on even if you don't know any of the details.
The OVA was released as part of the Ghibli ga Ippai Collection and was di…
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Iblard Jikan is a 30 minutes short anime film produced by Studio Ghibli, but less like anime and more I guess I should say like an art exposition...now I explain why..
Story: There's no story so there's no vote -.- basically there's a girl passing through different scenarious and kinda "futustic" and "dream worlds"..but there's technically nothing and not a single development
Art: I give it a 9, Iblard Jikan is to be seen when you want to relax(maybe in that moment of the day when you're really tired..so at the evening/night returned back home from work)and If you see it in that moment it can really fulfill his task and exceed your expectations for that reasons
because it can offer you a wide variety of amazing, brightly colored and an infinite and amazing palette of those..but the art s…
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I want to say that if you go into this anime expecting to watch a Studio Ghibli movie with cute characters and a plot that rips at your heart as you get to know each person intimately, you don't really find that here. This is a very different kind of Studio Ghibli where the focus is primarily on the visuals. If you're looking for that, most reviews say you won't be disappointed,
I personally was looking for a Nausicca of the valley of the wind when I picked this video. Perhaps I should have watched that again instead. I tried to push through it and can say that while I do appreciate the arty, it wasn't what I was looking for. I still say go for it though.
I was only able to get through about 5 minutes of it, primarily because I was expecting something different and secondly the music. I…
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Iblard Jikan is a beautiful anime I was excited to see as a pretentious fan of art. Naohisa Inoue's art is dreamy and his colors are like those of Monet, who I think they referenced here in a shot with waterlilies. Combine that with an imaginary world with lot of plants, big shots and a little sci-fi and you get a very pretty anime.
Unfortunately, I think Iblard Jikan is very dragged out. While I was mesmerized the first few minutes, it lasts 30, which wouldn't be a problem if the anime wasn't just a collection of paintings. You see a pretty scenary with a little animation for 5-15 seconds , and you pass to another. That's it. I'll say it again, Iblard Jikan is very pretty. However, without any story or anything else going on, I personally got tired of it quickly. I didn't even appreciate…
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If you were looking for Ghibli, I don't think you will find it here. One should watch Iblard Jikan with the mindset to study and appreciate as they would in a gallery.
Iblard Jikan reminds me of the slideshows left in the background of family gatherings. The T.V is tuned to an instrumental radio station, and you default to a library of backgrounds that came bundled with the attached laptop.
The premise of the show is to weave characters into paintings. There are various styles of art that would fit on a canvas. Animation is used sparingly, to move clouds, add people, apply wind.
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Background: 10/10
The artistry is amazing. The movie is directed by Naohisa Inoue who did the "Whisper of the Heart" backgrounds on the fantasy scenes (which has a similar feel). His paintings commonly take place in the land of Iblard (hence the name). Since he uses his actual paintings the backgrounds look great. An additional bit of info, it looks like his technique is similar to Sachiko's in "From Up On Poppy Hill" http://www.iblard.com/english/draw.html
Animation 2/10
To give the paintings life water effects are added over and other little things, the problem is everything sticks out like a sore thumb. Also they make all the paintings move to make it seem like you are actually in the world, but it ends up extremely clunky and flat. The animation is so distracting that I spent more tim…
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Surely you’re all familiar with the proverb “an image is worth a thousand words”; well, this wonder from Ghibli (yet another one) fits perfectly on it. In Iblard Jikan you’ll experience a magical journey, as you look through a canvas, because this particular and unique anime seems very much like an exquisite exhibition taken from an art gallery. In here, you will see, photogram by photogram, a vast new planet and, inside its whole, an immensity of worlds lost through space and time. From forgotten floating islands, flowering fields, futuristic ambiences, antique and decadent villages, and more. In an OVA such as this, in which there are virtually no conversation or soliloquies, the musical score is a foundation of most importance. The music will guide you comfortably deeper into this imagi…
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What does it take for an anime to be considered a masterpiece? A groundbreaking storyline? Extremely likable characters or maybe great humor?
Well you're not going to find any of that here, however Iblard Jikan does what no other anime has ever done that I've seen: namely tell a story completely without words. It has the most artistic visuals I've ever seen in an anime, and by miles at that. The soundtrack doesn't fall short either, as it has a full OST despite only being a 30 min OVA, and a fantastic one at that.
Despite its complete lack of concrete characters or storyline, it manages anyway. The art itself is the story. It captivates you and draws you in. Even if noone tells you what is going on specifically, you somehow understand it anyway.
This was by far the best OVA I've ever se…
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Ghibli art porn.
That's was this was, it was Ghibli art porn at it's finest. At one point as a scene ended and the final note of a score track fell I could almost SEE the words G-H-I-B-L-I appear on the scene.
This is 100% proof that if Studio Ghibli produces nothing more than pretty pictures set to pretty music it will likely be a successful endeavor.
My flatmate, Ryn, and I came to the conclusion that this was a beautiful group of paintings and ideas that one (or a few) of the artists had in his/her/their portfolio and Studio Ghibli knew it was too good an opportunity to pass up, so they decided to set it to music and add some (minimal) animation to it.
Not that I'm complaining, this was so marvelous to behold. The sheer range of art styles alone was worth the time to watch it. Some…
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I think Iblard Jikan deserves few words to be spent. Although it could be more properly named 'video art' rather than anime, in order not to raise flames among the conservative otaku (I can hear screams of "Where's the fuckin' plot, the fuckin' characters..?"), and even if I don't play the role of the snobbish anime viewer I understand that rating this work as anime could be confusing.
However.
I think this is not only a gentle, good-vibration-inducing work, but also that its beauty lies in the details and the beautiful hybrid between sense of wonder and warmth: the harmony of the sound of a revolving door merging with the soothing music (Background? Sound is a protagonist nearly as much as sight, in Iblard Jikan), the contrast between a home-like, Ghiblian scene of girls playing and pebb…
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If anime was ever introduced into an arts class this would be the best anime to show to the students! This is actually the best way to descibe this anime.
The anime is divided into different acts, accompanied by a music piece selected to set the mood of each act. While you are exploring the world of Iblard Jikan strange things might happen. Big floating rocks might hover above you or flowers spring into bloom in front of you. The feeling is like you are inside this gigantic painting that comes to life.
This is not an anime for the action lovers. In this world everything has its own time, its own rules. Watch this anime in the evening after taking a shower, with a cup of tea and with the biggest ever screen size and the best ever sound setup and you are in for a totally visual experience be…
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