Audience reviews
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Gsarthotegga
The Midnight Parasites is probably the best Yoji Kuri short I've ever seen. His style is typical kind of crude, the equipment and resources available to him were limited, and he didn't have a staff to dictate. His style works best when he's trying to create a unique world with its own special atmosphere. This one resembles some kind of hell or nightmare and it draws heavily from medieval imagery of demons and painters like Hieronymus Bosch—even directly lifting a few figures from Garden of Earthly Delights. It's one of the more surreal shorts I've seen as of late.
Adding to the roughness, the animated figures are all in color, while they inhabit a monochromatic world—a world that is not only very sparse, but arranged with pleasing composition and texture as the creatures roam the landscap…
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Kuri Yoji has caught my attention before. I have heard of a few of his titles. But didn't bother to watch any until recently. He is considered, "one of, if not the most important figures in the history of Japanese independent animation", which, I will admit, doesn't really strike as true when you first look into his works. To be fair, you need to understand that this is quite odd stuff, so the time in which you watch his works matters, that isn't to say it becomes impossible to enjoy them for what they should have been, you just need to know what they are about.
One of his titles I found off of YouTube comments, it is named "寄生虫の一夜" (The Midnight Parasites), which I heard good things about is something I decided to take a look into. Let's have a look at what I got from it, and what you ca…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
I gave it a 1
time was not 10 minutes but more 9 minutes and 30 seconds
This is not anime but art
no vocals
the music is that of a dream sequence much like the art
The art even though i hated this had some pros and cons. If you want good test if you can handle strange events trying watching this. Warning it can make you ill.
Some cons. The animation was repetitive. The artist(s) kept using transformation in their work. There was no story line. Sure there was some follow threw with some of the sketches but mostly you are jumping back and forth between things. some pros: there was color used when it could have been used with just black and white. It showed promise of the artist(s) being good in the future of horror. The music used matched the arts design.
The message behind this piece i…
Read at the sourcevigorousjammer
Well, this actually ended up being one of Kuri Yoji's better works that I've seen thus far. Still that's not saying much.
The art is a step above his other productions, but still doesn't look great. I thought the monster designs were interesting, but everything looks really rough, and things still don't move fluidly whatsoever.
The story is basically nonexistant. In true Kuri Yoji fashion, weird things just happen one after the other. While you're watching it, you're not really sure what's going on. It's also one of his longest shorts, being 10 minutes long... and by the end, the whole thing has overstayed it's welcome, since nothing has really happened at all.
The soundtrack isn't compelling, but it also isn't offensively bad, just really really bland. I'd say the sound effects are als…
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That was an awesome animation about the animators nightmares, it was made in the 70s one guy made, excellent animation the backgrounds are all surreal. Seems like nature is telling the guy "watch out for parasites and shit" great stuff if only more people would animate their nightmares. Btw for those who think that the animation is shit, note that it was all done by one man in the 70s who had limited equipment so appreciate his ability to tranlate his dream onto paper I doubt you could do the same.
Read at the sourceejala
This short is weird, to put it simply. There isn't really a story or plot, this is just a ten minute view of a world. And what a world! A distopian landscape of dead trees and corpses inhabited by monstrous insects, flying leviathans and unfortunate people. The people are dismembered, used as hosts for insect larvae, and are frequently eaten and defecated. If you've ever seen the hell scenes by Hieronymus Bosch, particularly the Garden of Earthly Delights, there is great similarity. The work also echos the misfortune of Edward Gorey's cartoons and the absurdities of Monty Python. If you liked any of these, give it a try.
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