Audience reviews
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Halcyon13
As an essentially one-person production from Atsuya Uki, the animation is technically sound, and there are many instances of him capitalizing on the freeform shape of the creatures and using them to demonstrate transformation and the physics of weight. It is often fluid even though the layouts lack details to establish the urban setting well. There are a handful of combat sequences that are not storyboarded well or, rather, not structured to be a genuine action sequence. I would have liked to see a lengthier scene of the creatures brawling, but he opts for shorter bursts of turn-based aggression and does a solid job of drawing volumetric blasts for the successive explosions from the size of these aliens keeling over. Given the runtime, there isn't any worldbuilding happening, and Yuki is l…
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Indie productions aren’t especially common in the anime industry (off the top of my head I can’t name any in fact), and while I imagine it wouldn’t be the most difficult thing in the world for a solo creator to produce a moderately decent slice of life comedy short Atsuya Uki was ambitious in choosing to make Cencoroll a nearly half hour long sci-fi action flick. By all means this is more of a display of technical prowess rather than anything you would watch for a satisfying story. The characters rarely speak — aside from Yuki who I suspect is because they somehow managed to get the wonderful Kana Hanazawa to voice — and things sort of just happen sporadically. Yuki happens to see Tetsu and his creature Cenco, afterwards they’re seen by another boy who happens to be in control of two of th…
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just for this movie compared to connect. FUCK YUKI...SHE IS ACUALLLY UNNEEDED!!!anyways, the world itself is interesting but it was rather hard to follow, when certain things didn't make much sense. The Tetsu and Shu decent character make up, nothing crazy, the blobs. yes. I love Cenco <3 Cenco got kidnapped by Yuki, honestly she is a bad owner. Tetsu deserve better, i wish their was more info about the big guy and what exactly was his ordeal.
this is my first review and I guess, it's not long enough. So I shall slander Yuki. out of spite. basically she is the definiton of somebody liking a person's unchipped dog, and then stealing it and there's barely any evidence that Cenco belonged to Tetsu except his love and anger towards Yuki for yoinking it. no one can do anything. So she is left…
Read at the sourceGabriel-kun
Cencoroll
Story - 7
Art - 10
Sound - 9
Character - 10
Enjoyment - 10
Overall - 9
Cencoroll is a very unique animated short done by one man back in 2009. And for the time, I believe this is one of anime's best-kept secret gems. It vibes a lot like Sonny Boy, and that they're both extremely experimental in its themes, storytelling, animation, characters, and its world. Plus, they both vibe like uhmm...let's just say, indie. Yeah, you know...lofi, bedroom pop, indie, alt-rock, "I like sadboi music" kinda vibe yeah? Yeah. Cencoroll has very apathetic characters, but they're also flawed and motivated. And, nothing about the story is dull, it's extremely interesting. And sometimes, even grander than the scope of its runtime. This much is true, since there's a part 2 and an upcoming part 3 in t…
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Cencoroll is the kind of anime that if you make up an explanation, try to fit and label in a certain genre or relate to any other anime, your whole experience will be distorted. Keep in mind that it is a short movie (30 min) based on a one shot manga. It’s not supposed to have a development on every area.
Story. In the movie’s universe there are these giant white “monsters” that are not even named. None of the W’s questions needed for an explanation or even just a theory are answered (who, why and how). Both for the people who apparently can control these kinds of monster or the monsters themselves.
Regardless, it was a very good adaptation, focusing not on how’s, but on the actual main happening: the match between the boys. The proposal still runs completely from the normal stories we’re…
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A boy and his transforming blob
Cencoroll is a 26 minute "movie" about the titular Cencoroll or "Cenco", a transforming blob that's taken care of by Tetsu Amamiya voiced by Hiro Shimono. Not until a chance encounter with Yuki voiced by Kana Hanazawa, is Yuki swept up when other guy by the name of Shuu voiced by Ryohei Kimura wanting Cenco a fight breaks out...
This being a 20 something minute movie, the premise is about the majority of what happens in this movie and what5 substance we can get from this movie is the interactions with it's characters at best, the fights at worst, but it's not bad though this movie being this short has some obvious downsides, the most obvious being the fact of it's length almost makes this movie be like a cliff notes of a fully formed idea and a full movie…
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Cencoroll it's a 27 minute movie made in 2009 by Aniplex and Think Corporation.
Synopsis: Tetsu's pet is a giant blob with eyes and teeth that can change into anything. He communicates with it via telepathy, and it's strong enough to do battle with other giant blob monsters. Tetsu would rather just be left alone... but a strange girl finds his blob monster much more interesting than he anticipated. Unfortunately, so does a rival monster owner.
"Fans who've been following anime for more than a decade tend to complain about the medium's current state of affairs. In Japan as well as America, in industry as well as hobbyist circles, the ones who witnessed the country's animated output peak and slowly fall into decline can at any moment be witnessed bemoaning its latest offerings, featuring t…
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The anime starts off with a giant alien blob appearing on top of a skyscraper in a city where our two protagonists reside. Shortly after, these two meet when our female protagonist Yuki discovers that our male protagonist Tetsu is in possession of one of these blob alien creatures, of which he has his named as "Cenco". His creature specializes in transformation.
Cencoroll is quite an average film individually from its yet-to-be released sequel, featuring an interesting premise, but lacking in.. well.. lots of stuff. Most of the time the anime is silent with no soundtracks. People who are fond of music utilization in anime will realize how quiet the whole film is. However, this is left up to preference.. because the silence of the show do symbolize the mood of the film and its characters,…
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Oddly minimalist and devoid of any explanation, so I don't really know how to regard it. Who are these people and why are they fighting? Are we supposed to understand this? What is the point of all this and why do we care? We have no idea. It feels almost like an incomplete trailer, or part 1 of an OVA which didn't sell enough units to finish part 2.
Read at the sourceKuandohan
"Cencoroll" is a very fresh and unique story based on the Manga "Amon Game."
Both works were original creations by Atsuya Aki, who created, wrote, directed, and animated (Yes, animated) this film alone.
The only help he had were the Seiyuu, Music, and production by Aniplex. I must say this first before I begin... Thank you Aniplex!
A giant alien shows up on top of a skyscraper, "A boy and his blob" watch over it, "There's another one, are you hungry? You're lazy today, huh?"
The boy's name is Tetsu Amamiya, he owns a blobby alien life form he named Cenco. Cenco can transform into any object imaginable.
There are many more people with the possession of aliens with similar, if not, more unique powers. You have to always be on your toes. Just like the mystery alien that formed on the skyscr…
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Takes a very complicated concept and allows the audience to grasp it entirely within a period less than 30 minutes. Although it would be nice as a full length movie or a series it isn't necessary. Excellent anime for it's time constraints.
Read at the sourceHatchetGirl
I have no idea what I watched.
But I liked it.
:D
Story: So... the story... is about alien transformer thingys and people who can talk to them with their hair? I'm not even 100% sure. But it was interesting.
Art: The art style was really cool. Detailed, interesting.
Sound: I liked the voice actors, the sound effects were great. Characters: I liked all of the characters. Cenco is so cute X3
Enjoyment and Overall: I reccomend this, even if it's not your type of thing. I mean, come on, it's only 25 minutes, what's the harm? I overall really liked it.
Thanks for reading!
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Yuki finds herself wondering why a bike parked outside the school starts moving when it suddenly transforms into a ... panda?! Suddenly she's in the middle of a battle between the owners of these ugly yet irresistibly adorable monsters.
For fans of Furi Kuri, Atsuya Uki has created the whimsical, slightly insane yet delicate short film Cencoroll. Uki certainly did an impressive job adapting his manga background for the big screen. While the 30 minute length leaves little time to fully develop a complex plot, Uki rose to the challenge with remarkable grace. Cencoroll never felt rushed and while none of my initial questions were answered, I found myself utterly satisfied with the ending. With a little bit for every watcher--action for the boys, two nonchalant semi-bishies (wink wink) for th…
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Every so often anime throws up something completely out of the ordinary, not simply in terms of content, but also in terms of production. There's many a title that can boast an extremely original plot, or cutting edge animation, or some other aspect of it's production that has the potential to shake the foundations of the entire medium. A case in point is Shinkai Makoto's much acclaimed Hoshi no Koe, which proved once and for all that a quality anime could be produced by one person (with some time and effort of course). It's a sad fact that the current trends within anime have precluded other such innovations in favour of what's popular or what will sell.
With Cencoroll though, the winds of creative change that were long thought becalmed, may have started blowing once more.
The anime is…
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