#PALM TOWN Monogatari

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山野さと子 - 南の国のパームタウン Satoko Yamano - Minami No Kuni No PALM TOWN Shin MAPLE TOWN Monogatari - Opening Theme *Movie "Shin MAPLE TOWN Monogatari: PALM TOWN Hen"

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The Palm Town girlies eating ice creams

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Animation Night 158: The Carnival Is Back In Town

Hi everyone, it’s Animation Night! Still happening!!

Tonight I am evidently running quite late. The reasonable reason for this is that I just arrived at my friends’ house in Glasgow and it’s taken a minute to get everything set up. The less reasonable reason is that I spent a lot of time today playing Beat Saber. But anyway!

Today is going to be a combination of old stuff and new stuff! Back in the day, one of the first things I showed on Animation Night were short film collections such as Meikyū Monogatari (1987) [lit. Labyrinth Tales, but known in English as Neo Tokyo and Manie-Manie] and Robot Carnival (also 1987).

The unifying factor in both of these is Katsuhiro Otomo, but let’s not make it all about him! Both are collections of short films by a huge variety of directors. For Otomo himself, it was a ridiculously busy time - as well as directing films in both collections he was hard at work on Akira. For Robot Carnival he created the intro and outro, telling the story of the Robot Carnival itself, a massive crawling machine whose displays have turned into deadly weapons to the apocalypse survivors it runs over below.

And alongside him are a number of familiar names. Kōji Morimoto, future cofounder of Studio 4C, made the ridiculously involved short film Franken’s Gears almost singlehandedly (his family helped with the inbetweening!). Animator Manabu Ōhashi, who tragically passed away last year, made a beautiful abstract short film called Cloud. And Yasuomi Umetsu, whose uniquely chunky hyperrealist design style I’ve written about now and again, directed a troubling short called Presence about a man who creates and destroys a gynoid, probably the most technically spectacular film he’s done. Takashi Nakamura (who I must cover soon, director of e.g. A Tree of Palme) brings a riotous midnight dance of machines in The Tale of Chicken Man and Red Neck. Hiroyuki Kitakubo, future director of Golden Boy and Blood: the Last Vampire, brings a satirical 19th-century fight in Strange Tales of Meiji Culture: Westerner’s Invasion.

All in all it’s one of my favourite short film collections - this is probably like the fourth or fifth time I’ve shown it to people? It’s a great and very varied ride.

And Meikyū Monogatari, this is the work of Madhouse, and as such it has films by Rintarō and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Rintarō who introduces us by leading a girl into a strange surreal circus to set the stage for the other shorts. Kawajiri directs cyberpunk racing short The Running Man, which is pure imagery and carrying 1000 synthwave music videos on its back - but the original is surprisingly dreamily paced. The biggest highlight is Otomo’s Construction Cancellation Order, in which a salaryman attempts to shut down a massive out-of-control autonomous construction project, butting up against a robot foreman who will do anything to continue the work. If you watched Akira and felt like “damn I think this needs more machinery porn”, Otomo’s got you covered! It’s a great short, unfolding with a sense of wonderful comic inevitability.

Tonight the plan is to revisit both of these short films! But also to check out some recent short films that I thought were neat. For example, we have How And Why Don Jose Dissipated by ‘Animoshe’, a psychedelic short about a bee and a tourist with a truly unique style...

And Record Highs by Beryl Allee about an athletic competition among frogs amidst... striking circumstances.

It’s also coming into CalArts season, so if we feel hungry for more, I’ll check out the latest student films. Plus, if you’ve seen anything neat you’d like to watch together, tell me and I’m sure we can find room!!

Sound fun? We’ll be going live shortly over at twitch.tv/canmom and start the films at 10pm UK time! Would love to see you there ^^

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Anybody watched the Maple Town anime?

Was there an episode where the characters had a fight cause they were designing a Merry-go-round ride and couldn't agree on what the seats should look like? I think I loved this show as a kid but I'm not sure if I'm not remembering wrong, all I can remember is a bunny girl character named Patty in a cute pink dress.

I look up the images for this show and the nostalgia doesn't quite hit, so I'm iffy it I'm not mixing it up with some other show. Maybe it was the Shin Maple Town Monogatari: Palm Town-hen spin off, as I remember a more city vibe than rural town.

If I could see that Merry-go-round episode I think my brain would stop looping back to it again and again. Does anybody know if it's even this show it's from, or even the name of the episode?

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Aww

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Maple Town Stories

Genre : adventure, fantasy

Category : Аnime series / Аnime film

Episodes : (Maple Town Monogatari) 52 duration 25 min, (Shin Maple Town Monogatari: Palm Town Hen) 44 duration 25 min / 26 min, (Shin Maple Town Monogatari: Palm Town Hen - Konnichiwa! Atarashii Machi) 30 min

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Esto es lo más tierno que verás en anime.

Capturas del ending de "Shin MAPLE TOWN Monogatari PALM TOWN Hen"; este ending es titulado "Motto FRIEND" y es interpretado por Satoko Yamano.

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Rolley is shy (Shin Maple town monogatari palm town hen episode 14)

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Maple Town Stories: Palm Town “The Tin Medal” | 1987

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