Heart Catch Pretty Cure! The Movie: Fashion Show in Paris! nominated for 2012 Kidscreen Award!!

Congratulations!!

News link[Japanese]
Kidscreen link[English]

The report of TOEI is written like this. [This is a text of a translation machine. I do not have the linguistic capacity which translates others' text into English.]

""Kidscreen" is a trade magazine which takes up the movie contents for a child and teens of every coutry in the world. The business matching event for industry participants for the four days "Kidscreen Summit" is opened in New York in February every year, and the award ceremony of "Kidscreen Award" is also held within this event. The judge who is experienced in the industry in the program of an object age group can grade eyes in all the application works for every element of the regulation which constitutes through and a work, and top 3 works can follow primary examination of "Kidscreen Award" to the final examination as a nomination work by comprehensive score. "Heart catch Precure" was chosen as these top 3 works. "

This is very glad news because Heart catch Precure was a very wonderful animated film!! This movie is one of the tragedies representing the 2000s.

In the 90s, girl's anime had big changes by Ikuhara Kunihiko. He introduced a theme of male existence problem in the genre of girl's anime. It's an "imaginary friend [link]". Although almost people are not aware, an imaginary friend is a theme important for anime culture. This character has the fate which dies the moment a child grows up. Therefore, it is a character used abundantly in juvenile literature. "Toy Story" is famous.
Reference; Sailor moon R movie [link]

Ikuhara made his imaginary friend appear in girl revolution Utena. [This is not my delusion. He is writing to the postscript of comics version Utena, etc. repeatedly. ] It is Otori Akio. By his appearance, a prince's existence and suffering are emphasized.

It is the Washio Takashi　"鷲尾天" producer who revived the theme. To a mysterious thing, he did not know girl anime at all.
Specifically, the tuxedo mask which helped Sailor Moon is change of becoming an enemy's prince.
A tuxedo mask does not exist in Precure, A prince always exists in an enemy.  This is a very important change and is the new rhetoric about love.

This movie makes it the theme "why for him to have become wrong." In fact, this is a theme repeated by anime of Japan. "Char's Counterattack" is so and "Crayon Shin-chan : Arashi wo Yobu Mouretsu! Otona Teikoku no Gyakushuu" will be mentioned in the 2000s. If it goes back more, "Godzilla" also corresponds.

In Heart Catch Pretty Cure! The Movie: Fashion Show in Paris!, the life of Baron Salamander and Olivier is told. We respond to their tragedy through Precure. the dramatist "Kuriyama Midori" did very good work about the tale of girl anime.
This anime of being evaluated by foreign media will be happy for the staff.

BUT!!!

In Japan, although evaluated by a child and many spectators, neither the critic nor the Otaku evaluated. They ignored.
I declare with anger. These do not have a discerning eye. Moreover, TOEI was not able to evaluate this work correctly. The number of shows in the foreign country should have been increased, or TV series should have been broadcast, and sale should have been expanded.

Probably, such situations will continue to be repeated....
And anime of Japan never spreads in the world. A market is still small. Therefore, the viewpoint which looks at anime not as an advertisement but as a cinema work is required for many people.



Omake.
New work of Matsumoto Rie　松本理恵, a film director.
京騒戯画　kyousougiga.

by Clown_Jack

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