In the past few days, I have revisited Hideaki Anno's debut work "Leap to the Peak" as an animation director, and I have become more and more aware that Hideaki Anno is really the god of otaku culture, and his works can be described as the ultimate combination of romance pursued by men in the second dimension.
The first time I saw "Leaping to the Peak", it was completely a passing pass, and the reserves of animation knowledge and otaku knowledge at that time were not enough to fully appreciate this work. Looking at it now, Leap to the Top is indeed yds. Although it is The first time Anno has done animation, I think that the combination of beautiful girls and robot elements is still not as natural as the previous "Chrono Fortress" series, but taking out the beautiful girl part alone, it is absolutely very understanding of the needs of otaku, and many girls are cute and cute. Although the style of painting is very old (I saw the Sadamoto Yoshiyuki in the production table), the girls painted it beautifully, and the human body was very beautiful.
In the expression of mechanical beauty, I think it is much stronger than the tv Gundam of the same period, of course, you will say, is it unfair to compare ova with tv? emmm, then I will take a detailed screenshot comparison of tv Gundam, ova Gundam and "Leap Peak" in the future, so stay tuned.
"Leap to the Top" also added some close-up tributes, such as the above one that I think resembles the flying kick action in some close-ups... It is said that "Leap to the Peak" has a shadow of paying tribute to other early works in terms of title and content, but the comprehensive perception feels that various elements are taken out separately and are very successful... Blending together is not natural enough. Well, after all, it is the first attempt of the old thief, and I think it is already remarkable to have this degree of completion.
The real invisible fusion, of course, is Evangelion. The real fusion of robots and beautiful girls in a very natural way has surpassed the old predecessor "Time-Space Fortress" and of course, it has pressed the "New Mobile Suit Gundam W" under the body at the same time... How did the old thief do the robot element, the difficult philosophy, the beautiful girl element, and the close-up element? To blend together perfectly? Maybe that's really all he has in his head?
But what Hideaki Anno is really good at is. After creating a landmark work like Evangelion that opened the window of otaku culture, it is truly admirable that it can also exert efforts and great success in real live-action close-ups.
In 2016, "True Godzilla" was a hit and a hit at the box office of 8 billion yen, becoming a major achievement of Hideaki Anno in live-action movies. It really realized his dream of double harvest of animation and film. The content he creates is science fiction, robots, beautiful girls, close-ups, all men's romance... From this point of view, the status he admires in the mind of otaku is probably no less than that of Miyazaki, the titan of Japanese animation.
In terms of robots, I obviously like Yuki Tomino's Gundam series more, and I have always disliked others using Evangelion to "compare" the Gundam series. However, the more I delve into the knowledge of old animation and otaku, and the more I dig into the close-ups of the past, the more I found that Hideaki Anno was indeed "unfathomable" and "forever dripping gods". As for where "Leap to the Top" is, how its beautiful girl elements are integrated, and after I revisit it, I will tell you slowly.