#Lu over the wall

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Favorite Japanese anime movie directors/animators currently:

Masaaki Yuasa

Makoto Shinkai

Mamoru Hosoda

Naoko Yamada

Tomohisa Taguchi

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♫ Lu Over The Wall | 夜明け告げるルーのうた (2017) dir. Masaaki Yuasa ♫

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You totally should watch the Masaki Yuasa movies!

A couple of months ago, I did this thing where I watched a couple of anime movies, that had gone under my radar. Because let's face it: Outside of franchise related anime movies, we will mostly be aware of Studio Ghibli, Makoto Shinkai and Mamoru Hosoda. Other anime movies will often not be talked about in western anime spaces.

So, I consulted AniChart and just went through all sorts of anime movies, that were barely talked about.

The first of those was Ride Your Wave. And as @udaberriwrites, who got my life reaction, can tell you: This movie went places. It was one of the rare examples where there was a straight romance in an anime movie that I totally could get behind. A romance I found romantic. (Maybe not that much of a surprise, given the screenplay was bei Reiko Yoshida, who... just was a big influence on me. I loved so much of her stuff as a kid.) And then I looked at the timestamp of the movie. 25 minutes out of 96. And I went like: "One of them is gonna die, right?" And yes, I was right. So, I thought it was going to be a movie about moving on after loosing a loved person. Maybe about finding new love. But... Let me tell you, that was not were this movie went. Instead it just went on to be off the walls bonkers.

I am not going to spoil the movie for you. Just believe me: It is bonkers. And it is amazing. Really, really amazing.

Now, the next movie on my watchlist was Inu-Oh. A movie in a really weird animation style that originally turned me off. But that had such compelling characters and in the end really alive animation, that it kinda just captured me.

Again, I do not want to spoil the movie to you. But it was certainly something.

Well, and then I realized that those two movies, that I just happened to watch one after the other had been made by the same director: Masaaki Yuasa.

Now I was intrigued and just put in the other movies by him over the next few days. One of them I had seen before: The Night is Short, Walk On Girl.

And watching all those movies back, I could make out several things that tied them together. Mostly in terms of animation.

The characters are often very simplified, but the animation is very alive - actually following those old methods of animation, that would allow for characters to be off-model to show action. There is little in terms of shadows.

The characters are so lively. And it is just... nice to watch.

So, really. Watch the man's movies and anime. He also had done Devilman Crybaby, by the way. It is most certainly something else. Especially his movies.

The movies are:

The Night is Short, Walk on Girl Lu Over the Wall Ride your Wave Japan Sinks: 2020 Inu-Oh

Have fun!

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random merfolk drawings I managed to scavenge from my sketchbooks while it’s (barely) still MerMay

The first two are from one of my favorite movies ‘Lu over the wall’, the one on the left was drawn without a reference, the other vice-versa, the rest are mostly from my Sonic prime AU, No place to be exact, and the last two are just random OCs, have a lovely day

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Lu over the Wall

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Old lu over the wall art

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merfolk of the day: lu from lu over the wall

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Lu Over the Wall

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Lu Over the Wall (2017) dir. Masaaki Yuasa

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Lu, if you even care

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Character heads from 2020

Links: LinkTree, Twitter, Moon Rabbit

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Lu Over the Wall | 夜明け告げるルーのうた (2017) dir. Masaaki Yuasa

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Lu Over the Wall (2017) AD. Hiroshi Ohno

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So I got curious and looked up Nathaniel's VA, Michael Sinterniklaas, to see what else he's done. Guy's been in the industry for nearly 30 years and I was immediately hooked seeing just how much he's done over the years.

For example, he played Leonardo in the 2003 TMNT show and the 2009 series crossover movie Turtles Forever. He plays the main character, Kai, in Lu Over The Wall (I knew I recognized his voice). I never watched the English dub of A Silent Voice, but he plays the English voice of Kazuki in that one.

And he plays Funshine and Bedtime Bear in the 2012 series Welcome to Care-A-Lot. Apparently this isn't even his only role in Carebears either. He's been playing Funshine Bear up to the 2015 carebear movie Carebears and Cousins.

AND HE PLAYS SUB-COMMANDER SOBEI FROM MY FAVORITE ANIME SAMURAI 7!!! God, I want that show to get a reboot...

And these are literally just me scratching the surface. I really recommend you look him up cause he's got a lot of other voices from incredible series under his belt and he's also a scriptwriter for some series and apparently an ADR director too.