by “Jujutsu Kaisen” attracts so much attention that there is no day when you can’t see the news in both the original manga and the anime. From July 2, a large-scale exhibition, “Animation Jujutsu Kaisen Exhibition,” will be held in “Sacred Places” Shibuya, and it is showing further excitement toward the release of “Theatrical Version Jujutsu Kaisen 0” on Christmas Eve. .. A significant feature of such “Jujutsu Kaisen” is that the original manga and anime are strongly linked and mutually enhanced. This time, we will delve into the synergistic effect of honeymoon, which is unique.
The original author, and Gege Akutami.The high level of “translation power” of the staff of the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” It is no exaggeration to say that MAPPA is the most dynamic animation production studio that is working on the animation of “Jujutsu Kaisen.” In the “TV Anime Magical War Official Start Guide,” the editor in charge, Tatsuhiko Katayama, said that the original author, Gege Akutami, is the only one because of the greatness of the past work, as well as the enthusiasm and enthusiasm for the production. “Isn’t it?” MAPPA, whose original author also presses the drum, and the spirit of the animators and other staff involved in the production can be seen everywhere in the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen.”
First, it is necessary to expand the depiction between action scenes and frames in the case of a manga work even when animating faithfully to the original. In addition, as the number of information increases due to the performance of music and the voices of voice actors, it is necessary to consider the possibility that the nuances will change if the manga drawn as a still image is made into animation as it is. In addition, to convince the original authors and fans, it is necessary to make them feel that the inflated scenes and the parts where the composition is changed do not become squiggly or deteriorated and that they “take the essence of the original firmly.” In that respect, the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” can be work with excellent “translation ability” from manga to anime. For example, the tiger cane is the first double-sided lodging.
There are many points of interest even in the episode leading up to capturing the finger. A scene after a tiger cane heading to Sugisawa Third High School, recognizing the danger of a senior member of the Society for Psychical Phenomena, was stabbed by Fushiguro with a nail saying, “Here I am.” In the first episode of the original story, a monologue of a tiger cane appears on a black background.
On the other hand, in the first episode of the TV anime, the tiger cane stood in front of the fence, his hand tremor, and the expression of determination after biting his lips. It’s easier to understand the fear and loneliness he felt and the changes in his emotions from conflict to decision and running. This is a crucial point in TV animation, which requires more comprehension as a medium than the manga. Similarly, the action also extracts and inflates the essence of the original.
The highlight was Gojo vs. Yado at the beginning of the second episode of the TV anime. In the original story, the inn jumps from behind to Gojo, but the attack does not hit, and on the contrary, Gojo stands behind the inn. However, after avoiding the attack, Gojo sits on all fours with his legs crossed in the TV anime. Moreover, the story of Kikufuku, which was interrupted after avoiding the first hit in the original, continues as it is in the TV animation. At this point, Gojo’s words “I am the strongest” became even more persuasive, and it became clear at a glance that “Gojo = the strongest.” And the scene of area development is a big highlight throughout the work. In “SWITCH Vol.39 No.3 Special Feature MAPPA’s Present Form”, director Park Sungha said he had a close exchange with Akutami. For example, regarding the scene of Fushiguro’s area development “Mating Dark Garden” drawn in episode 23, animation producer Seshita took the stage at the event “MAPPA STAGE 2021 -10th Anniversary-” held on June 27. Keisuke said as follows. Seshita analyzed that Fushiguro had no scene that had won so clearly and that he had a good face even when he was beaten. However, the battle with the special-grade ghost in this story is when Fushiguro overcomes the word “You don’t know how to get serious” previously pointed out in Gojo and won for the first time. Therefore, Seshita consulted with Director Park and the primary staff, “It’s okay to be ugly to the limit.” Even in the original, Fushiguro was bleeding from his head and nose, and he was sweating, and expressing that, he dared to devote a dark animation director to the TV anime. The attempt was successful, and it became a scene where Fushiguro’s line, “It’s okay to be ugly! But now, this is okay!”
The spirit of the staff shines everywhere in “What you can do because it is an anime” In this way, the basis of the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen,” which makes various attempts to express the fun of the original to the maximum, has been from the time of production announcement. There is a feeling that the staff, including Director Park, often say. It is “what you can do because it is an anime and faithful to the original with respect.” Hiroshi Seko, who is the series composition and screenwriter, said, “I was conscious of reproducing the world view of the original with the visual expression of animation,” said “Weekly Shonen Jump.”
It was said in “No. 1 of 2021”. At the time of TV animation broadcasting, it was often discussed when the animator’s individuality was strongly emphasized, which has decreased in recent years. The 13th episode, in which Masato shows the area development “Self-closing Entonen,” is a time in which Hiroki Tanaka participated as a storyboard and one of the original drawings in addition to storyboarding and directing. In this episode, the emotional fluctuations that give Masato a new inspiration for death are expressed by the movement of his right eye and the minute changes in his pupils.
The “self-closing sensation” in which the hands unfold as if the flowers open, and the appearance of Masato spattering blood from his shoulders when the inn slashes him, are a perfect balance between realism and Keren taste. It is described with a sense. In the 2021 New Year’s message from Akutami posted on the official Twitter of “Jujutsu Kaisen,” there was a comment saying, “The 13th episode of the anime was amazing with the feeling that Mr. Hiroki Tanaka is alive!.” In addition, the 19th episode, which is one of the best action drawing episodes in the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen,” also attracted a lot of attention. At this time, Ryu Nakayama, who was announced to be the director of the TV anime “Chainsaw Man” the other day, is acting as a storyboard and director. In the same work, the scene of the tiger cane just before shooting the black flash, which was in charge of the action director Tatsuya Yoshihara, and the cooperation of the tiger cane and Todo where you can feel the weight of the hit of the animator Gesoikuo also highlighted, but the viewer is enthusiastic. The scene that Keiichiro Watanabe was in charge of was overtaken. It is a flowing yet dynamic background where the tiger cane and Todo avoid the huge tree released by Hanago, who released his left arm as if dancing and run through in cooperation. In this way, there is no time to enumerate the attempts of the TV anime staff to do interesting works and surprise the fans.
Cooperation between the original author and Gege Akutami’s full-scale animation The source of the fun of the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” is the challenge of expression unique to anime and the high “translation power” mentioned above. The staff is highly competent. In addition to that, what is indispensable is the original author side, which is unparalleled in other works. It is a cooperative relationship.
These two significant elements are “complementation from the original to anime” and “play unique to anime.” Speaking of “complementation from the original to the anime,” for example, the tiger cane and grandfather’s nurse call scene in the first episode of the TV anime. In the “Official Start Guide,” Katayama recalls that Akutami himself drew the name because there was a request from Director Park and Seko to dig a little deeper into the relationship between the two when making the TV animation. In addition to this scene, the name of the bonus anime “Juju Sanpo” after the central part of the TV anime is also drawn by Akutami. In addition, it is said in the “Official Start Guide” that there was a request from Akutami to Seko to mention the episode of Junpei Yoshino in their work. One is the “problem of” the opposite of love is indifference “mentioned on the bonus page of the original volume 3, where Akutami touched on the error rather than the original word about the word “opposite of love is indifference.”
I intended, but the regrets thrown in from various places without being transmitted well are drawn comically. So, in the conversation of the scene in the 10th episode of the TV anime, Masato rushed in, “I’m not the Japanese who thought about it,” while Yoshino said, “I’m talking about an error.” Follow me firmly. The other is the episode of Yoshino’s video lab era, which was mentioned on the bonus page of Volume 4 of the original story. “I feel that I was able to deliver the good side of Yoshino a little more by drawing the episodes around here,” he said, and this was added as an aban of the 10th episode of the TV anime, as in the previous scene. Hanako’s words are an example of “play unique to anime.” Natsuyu, who was watching the leak that Gojo thoroughly beat in the play, said, “If you want to help, you can help. I don’t know if the ghost has such a feeling.” Including the scene where Hanago responds to it. Hanako’s reply is not translated in the 16th episode of the original. Still, by playing the voice of the dialogue in the 7th episode of the TV animation in reverse, it is possible to understand what was answered there. Also, the magic Koshien is drawn Akutami himself devised the baseball broadcast-style top for each student in the 21st episode. In this way, the fun of the TV anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” comes from the ingenuity of the staff and the full backup of Akutami.
However, it does not mean that the anime side is supervised by the original side and is not stubborn. Akutami, in the “Curly Warfare Official Fan Book,” read, “Check the animation with the person in charge and the person in charge!” He talks about how he enjoys the difference. Reimport to the original! “Jujutsu Kaisen” enhances both directions with anime. The cooperation system with anime in this “Jujutsu Kaisen” has also influenced the original. When animating, the role of Asava was Shigeru Chiba with the hope of seeing Akutami. In addition, Akutami, a fan of Chiba’s sound director’s work, said that he also likes the role of a general cast in Japanese TV animation production, so Chiba will also play the role of grandfather. Katayama looks back in.
The words “Help people because you are strong” that my grandfather put on the tiger cane at the time of his death are the cornerstones of the tiger cane’s action guidelines that “lead people to the right death,” and at the same time, a kind of curse that binds him. Therefore, as you can see from the addition of the nurse call scene mentioned above, the relationship between the two is the key both as an introduction to the story and as a whole. About the acting of Chiba as his grandfather, Akutami made a guest appearance on the TV program “Mando Kobayashi # 75 Gege Akutami” Jujutsu Kaisen ” -Comment in “Herne-.” When he witnessed the recording of the first episode of the TV anime, he said that he was overwhelmed by the acting of Chiba, and on top of that, he felt that “if this person speaks, he must do something decent” and the original work after that. He enthusiastically said that he was more focused on how to draw the leaks in. In addition, there is a scene in which Nagasaki was used in the original from the TV anime. In the third episode of the TV anime, Nagasaki will exterminate the ghost with a tiger cane with his feet in Tokyo. In the past recollections inserted here, the appearance of Nagisaki’s childhood, which was not yet revealed in the related story of the original, is drawn. Later, in the original report, her childhood episode was mentioned again. Still, at the end of “Weekly Shonen Jump 2020 No. 40”, “Created rose is for animation by Mr. Hiramatsu (who works as a character designer in TV animation). He designed it !! It’s fantastic, “commented Akutami.
In “Jujutsu Kaisen,” such TV animations are also imported back into the original, and they are mutually enhancing. -Impact on “Jujutsu Kaisen” from anime works The interactivity between the original “Jujutsu Kaisen” and the animation is that Akutami has a deep knowledge of the animation itself, centering on drawing, and sublimates it into his work. It is also possible that this is the reason. In the “Official Fan Book,” the anime love explodes in the corner of “Gege Akutami’s Bible Anime Edition,” where Akutami about his origins! When he was in elementary school, he was shocked by the collection of works by Koji Morimoto, a videographer he found at a bookstore. I will confess. In addition, the respect for director Hideaki Anno is often mentioned by Akutami in interviews, including the “Official Guidebook.” “Weekly Shonen Jump The influence from the setting of the one-shot “Nikai Bonkaku Barabar Jura” published in “2016 No. 44”, the depiction of the rising part of the magical world in “Jujutsu Kaisen,” and the episode of the original after being made into a TV animation Can be seen. The same is true for the depiction of “Jujutsu Kaisen,” which does not explain everything too much and leaves room for imagination.
In this way, Gege Akutami’s extraordinary talent absorbs anime, and of course, manga, movies, dramas, novels, and other works that he has passed through and sublimates as originality and the blood and sweat crystals of his refined sense and skill. , Has formed a piece called “Jujutsu Kaisen.” Due to Akutami’s poor physical condition, the serialization in “Weekly Shonen Jump” is suspended for one month. However, from July 2, the “Animation Jujutsu Kaisen Exhibition” will be held in Shibuya with the concept of “re-experience of TV animation.” According to the schedule of Hyakki Yagyo in the play, the release of “Theatrical Version Jujutsu Kaisen 0” is scheduled to be released on December 24, and this work continues to accelerate. By taking this opportunity to review the two-way connection between the original and the TV anime while enjoying it again, you may be more aware of it. (Sentence = Ryoichi Sakurami)
