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Annunciato l’anime di “Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku”

Il romanzo sarà animato dallo studio Kyoto Animation.

Lo studio Kyoto Animation ha annunciato attraverso l’account Twitter dell’etichetta KA Esuma Bunko che produrrà un anime tratto dal romanzo “Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku” di Hiro Yuki.  

Siamo nel 1907, a Kyoto nel distretto di Fushimi. Inako Momokawa è la figlia quindicenne di un produttore di sake. Nonostante l’impegno, non ne fa una giusta e viene continuamente rimproverata dal padre. Per farsi coraggio, ripone tutta la sua fiducia nelle divinità. Un giorno, dopo essersi recata al santuario di Fushimi Inari per pregare, incontra un giovane che afferma di non credere negli dei, ma nell’avvento dell’era dell’elettricità.

Il suo nome è Kihachi Sakamoto e, inaspettatamente, salverà Inako dalle pressioni del padre verso un indesiderato matrimonio combinato. I due infatti inizieranno assieme la ricerca del “Catalogo dell’elettricità”, un libro pieno di previsioni sui prodigi della corrente elettrica scritto da Kihachi stesso quando era bambino. Ad averlo dovrebbe essere suo fratello Seiroku, ma nessuno sa dove sia finito.

L’opera ha ricevuto una menzione d’onore ai Kyoto Animation Awards del 2017 e sarà pubblicata il 10 agosto con illustrazioni da parte di Kazumi Ikeda e sfondi realizzati da Momoka Nagatani.

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An anime adaptation of Hiroshi Yuuki's novel "Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku" (20th Century Electricity Catalog) has been announced. It will be produced by Kyoto Animation.

via: http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/books/20thdenmoku/

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Nijuu Seiki Denki Mokuroku: Introduction, Story and Profiles

“I want you to remember this: light exists because someone turned it on.”

Meiji, Taishou, Shouwa, Heisei. The eras change, but love does not.

Winner of the 8th Kyoto Animation Grand Prix Encouragement Prize.

The set time is during the Meiji Era. Kyoto, Japan had just barely entered the twentieth century. This era, where the city started becoming familiar with Oriental cultures and began lighting up with electric poles, was a whimsical period, in which Japanese merged with Western, and the past merged with the future. There are definitely certain townspeople who lived in it who were never talked about in history.

This is neither about war nor politics. It is about a love story that happened somewhere in that era, which did not remain engraved in history at all.

Story

“Will you die with me and take me to Paradise?”

Meiji year 40. Summer. Living in Fushimi, Kyoto, Momokawa Inako never succeeded at anything she tried, no matter what it was, thus being reprimanded by her father every day. Her one and only salvation was praying to the gods and Buddha and having faith.

On a certain day, while bringing her hands together at Fushimi Inari as usual, she met Sakamoto Kihachi, a free and uncontrolled boy who spat out at her, “I don’ believe in what I can’t see”. He denied the gods and Buddha, boasting that their era would be the age of electricity.

In said occasion, a discussion about marriage was suddenly brought up to Inako. It was her father’s one-sided decision, yet Inako gave in to it, thinking that her own worth was only so much. Mustering out his true feelings about wanting to free her, Kihachi took her out of her locked house.

The only way to stop the marriage was to look for a strange book, the “Electricity Catalog”. It was a prophecy book about electricity that Kihachi had written in his childhood, which his older brother Seiroku had taken away, the latter’s whereabouts unknown. Both Kihachi and Inako depart in search for the “Electricity Catalog” and roam around the territory of Shiga and Kyoto.

The secret hidden within the vanished “Electricity Catalog” was――

Character Profiles

Sakamoto Kihachi

A boy who loves electric lights dearly, works at the Hourai Temple Shop in Shinkyougoku Street and also handles mechanical repairs. 15 years old.

In the past, he was charmed by the near-future machines from the 5th Annual National Exhibition held in Oosaka and took interest in electricity. Believing relentlessly that “the twentieth century is the century of electricity”, he wrote the Electricity Catalog, which imagines future electrical inventions. His house is within a temple, but upon becoming unable to believe in gods, he had a big argument with his father and left home. He hates dark places with a passion.

Momokawa Inako

She grew up as the second daughter of the Momokawa Sake Brewer, located in Fushimi, Kyoto. 15 years old.

She has a pure-hearted and lively personality, but makes too many clumsy mistakes, and is always scolded by her father, Jinuemon. She ends up being compared to her sister, who can do anything, and is pessimistic about her very existence. She believes unwaveringly in gods, and whenever she is troubled by something, she goes to pray for the great mircacle-working deity Akubi of Fushimi Inari. “Believing is worth it” is her most common phrase. The only thing that she does not lose to anyone at is catching rats with her bare hands.

Momokawa Noriko

Inako’s older sister. 20 years old.

As the opposite of Inako, she is a mature woman gifted with both intelligence and beauty, flawless at everything she does. Her childhood friend Kuga is her fiancé, but the two are in a state of arguing every time they see each other, and so their wedding is on hold. The white kimono she wears and her long, lustrous hair are things that Inako admires. She was born and raised by rice wine brewers, but cannot stand the smell of alcohol.

Kuga Sengo

The second son of a rice grain dealer from Ootsu, the Kugatsunekichi Shop. 24 years old.

He is serious and has a strong sense of justice, adored by Inako as if he were her older brother. His relationship with his fiancée Noriko is that of dogs and cats, and he always has his mouth shut by Noriko’s sharp tongue. Due to his body of over 180cm of stature and the reckless way with which he madly rushed ahead during the Russo-Japanese War, he was nicknamed “Okajouki”. He currently works on philanthropic activities, such as helping the Salvation Army.

Sakamoto Seiroku

Kihachi’s older brother. He is masculine, but has a slim frame and always acts foolish. He pokes fun at people and Kihachi is cautious of him, branding him as a “liar”. He is the one responsible for showing Kihachi the beauty of electricity, and the suspicion towards gods and freewheeling of the latter were taken after him as well. He is very fond of high places and his dream is to go up the Eiffel Tower. He was entrusted by Kihachi with the Electricity Catalog, which seemed close to being set on fire by their father.

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Firstly, this is something personal of mine, but my trigger to becoming interested in 'photography' was after I saw a photo taken during the Bakumatsu Period. It vivid and beautifully captured those people who looked like they had come out of a period drama! It was almost like a time machine, I thought.  And then, we entered Meiji Era and the evolution of electricity progressed, so observing the scenery of Kyoto as of late, in which telephone poles were erected and the overhead wiring of trains were laid out throughout the low cityscape, makes it feel like a 'fantasy-ish parallel world'. What kind of future did the people of that time imagine when witnessing such a scene? The visible parts of it were a change comparable to our transition into an internet society, from before to after the year 2000 A.D., but I think it was even more drastic than that. People's power of imagination at the time was extremely rich, and it seems they had expected ACs, TVs and phones to be literal gigantic flying battleships. In my childhood, I used to think that people would be going to Mars and Jupiter when the 21st century arrived. (I believe people would understand this if they saw the animes and mangas of that time, but) I used to think that androids and AI just like human beings would become a reality. I also feel a stiff suffocation from how the sense of distance between people might have shortened too much, due to communication being easier with the social media of nowadays. But I think technology exists for the sake of people's happiness. I believe that, surely, we will become able to use the current technology even better. The protagonist of this story is the son of a Buddhist temple, who dreams of seeing many things change as the era of electricity arrives. The heroine is the daughter of a rice wine maker who believes in God. During the turbulent Meiji Era, love might have not been as freely as in the current era, but there has been supposedly not much change to the feelings of human beings. Even as the times change, people fall in love at any moment. I sense something similar to 'fate' in the fact that this book was published exactly 150 years after the first year of the Meiji Era.

Comment from director Ishidate Taichi

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Hello, I’m Yuuki Hiroshi. This work is set in Meiji Era, but what sort of image comes to you when you hear of Meiji? You might imagine a world almost completely different from the current era, and it might give an inflexible impression. Much like the people living in the current era, the individuals who appear in this story laugh, cry, worry, dash about and fall in love; that’s the kind of story it is. By all means, do enjoy the course of their lively journey.

Author’s Comment, Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku

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'20th Century Electricity Catalog' The emotions in it don't make a difference between now and the past, and actions are depicted as if it were from the current era. It's a wonderful story.

Ikeda Kazumi, Illustrator’s Comment

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twittercom/KA_esuma/status/1242373333741518848 I found this picture on Esuma Bunko's twitter. Can you make out anything from this? I'm only suspecting that the orange-haired person might be Ulysses or Julis.

This is for the novel. The movie has nothing to do with it. Yuris is an anime-original character. ^^’

To answer the question, it was just an announcement that parts of colored illustrations from each of the five works that are being printed at once would be uploaded. If I’m not wrong, these five works are Violet Evergarden: Ever After, Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku, Jikan, Mobomoga and Tenyakuryou no Majo.