``Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Zensho'' Animation of Inio Asano's work

Summary of "Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Zensho One"

Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran, also known as "Ontan," live the high-spirited life of high school girls in Tokyo. Despite being busy with school and studying for exams, the two spend every night having fun playing online The Game. Above the city where they live, a gigantic "mothership" floats, which appeared from space on August 31, three years ago, and caused an unprecedented incident. On one night, when the extraordinary has blended into the ordinary, a tragedy befalls two close classmates. The two are devastated by the shock and sadness. Meanwhile, Ouran meets a mysterious boy who asks her, "Who are you?" At that moment, the memory of her past with Kadode, which she had completely forgotten, comes back to her mind in an instant!

Index

• A world built with realistic scenery
• One of the culminations of Inio Asano's work
• From macro to micro
• The skill of screenwriter Reiko Yoshida
• To turn a manga into an anime

A world built with realistic scenery

Manga artist Inio Asano has a huge stock of landscapes he has taken with a digital camera, which he converts into line drawings. By selecting and using these as backgrounds for his manga works, he has been able to create a realistic world for his works with a photo-realistic approach.

Nowadays, many manga artists and illustrators use pen tablets and image editing software to create their drawings digitally, but in the early 2000s when Asano Inio made this technique his own, it was still not mainstream. Manga artists who embraced new techniques had to go through a process of trial and error, incorporating them into their own work in a way that suited their own individual personalities.

"Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Zensho" © Inio Asano / Shogakukan / DeDeDeDe Committee

In the case of Asano Inio, his artistry, transformed by the introduction of digital technology, has shifted to the density of the image. The crowds in front of Shibuya Station. A room overflowing with objects. Residential areas and buildings seen from a high vantage point... Just as a photographer finds ideas and themes in "cutting out" just a small part of reality, for him the depiction of backgrounds and landscapes is in itself a distinctive form of self-expression, and gives the sense of a gaze into the daily lives of real people, as well as an extension into urban theory and social theory.

On the other hand, in a realistic world that is different from the charm of freehand, Inio Asano often places manga-like line-drawn characters. This is perhaps a kind of reaction to the manga expression that he has cultivated. "Goodnight Punpun," which mixes traced detailed backgrounds with cartoon-like characters, is a clear example of this ambivalence, and can also be said to be an attempt similar to typical Japanese anime, where the moving images and backgrounds have different tastes.

One of the culminations of Inio Asano's work