by When the darkness of the night wraps around the Yukaku, a demon appears in front of the boy. On the streets or in the basement of the Yukaku, the demons mercilessly attack the boys. The demon is proud of their overwhelming strength. Will the blades of the boys reach the demons?
The beginning of the decisive battle with the demons-The TV anime “Kimetsu no Yaiba” Yukaku Hen, Episode 5 was aired on January 2nd. This episode is an animated version of the three episodes from the original comic, Vol. 9, Episode 77, “Roaring” to Episode 79, “Kazeana.” In the TV anime Yukaku edition so far, two episodes of the original comic have been animated as one animation episode. Still, since the action scenes will continue from here onward, the digestion speed of the original comic will also accelerate. It may be the case.
The land of the first string, the fallen princess, given blood from the demon chief, Oni Maitsuji Miserable, finally appeared in the midnight Yukako. She overwhelms Tanjiro Kamado of the demon slaughter corps. Sumijiro exhausts his mortality and releases Hinokami Kagura but does not reach the fallen princess. On the other hand, Hashibira Inosuke, who senses the smell of a demon and dives into the basement of the Yukaku, discovers the people trapped there. As I tried to release the people, the obi attacked me. When struggling with a belt like an earthworm, Suma and Maki, the daughter-in-law of Umeda Tengen, who had been captured, participated in the battle. Zenitsu Agatsuma, caught, also released “Thunder Breathing Ichino-type Kasumi Ippen Rokuren” and cut off the obi. Eventually, the sound pillar, Umeda Tengen, joins there.
There was a confrontation between the demon of the first string, Fallen Princess, and the earthworm belt. The story is simple, but the two battlefields, the Yukaku and the basement of the Yukaku at night, and the flashback scenes inserted here and there are mixed up, making it a spectacular episode. When I watch it, it ends in a blink of an eye, and time goes by quickly! It was a fulfillment that I couldn’t help but think.
This ease of viewing is mainly due to the careful depiction of this work and the creation of easy-to-understand images. “Color” was particularly prominent in the fifth episode of the Yukaku edition.
In animation production, “color” is an expression that demonstrates the comprehensive strength of the animation production staff. The original comics serialized in the weekly manga magazine are not colored. Colored comics may be released in recent electronic distribution, but in animation, lighting and color expression are done according to the play’s time zone, and the character’s standing position and various things are done according to the emotional expression of the character. Color is used. The “color” of anime has the characteristic that you can understand the situation of the drama just by looking at the color.
First, the artboard determines the direction of the background color, which occupies most of the animation screen. The artboard is the critical background of the scene that the art director draws in advance. The background staff will draw many cuts using the board as a sample. Next, we will decide the character’s color based on this artboard’s color, saturation, light source, etc.
The primary color of the character is precisely determined by the character designer and the person in charge of color design. Hair color, skin color, pupil color, lip color, clothes color, prop color … From the primary colors, the staff of color design and color designation will refer to the artboard and scenes for each scene. I will make the color. It is the finishing staff who color the cuts. Then, the shooting staff applies various filters to the cut with that color to blend the background and the character’s color. Of course, it is the responsibility of the director and director to control and coordinate all of that work. It can be said that determining the screen’s color is a part where the overall strength of the entire production site is questioned.
In the fifth episode, there is a battle scene in the midnight playground, a flashback scene of training in the butterfly house (outdoor), a flashback scene of measuring body temperature in the butterfly house (indoor), a scene of the Ogimotoya at night, and a scene of the underground passage of the playground. , There is an underground scene with a band demon, etc.
The brightness of each scene is different, and the light source is different. Of course, the subtle colors of the characters are also different, and you can see that they are correctly used. In addition to the scene’s color, in the scene where Kanjiro shoots Hinokami Kagura, the bodies of Kanjiro and the fallen princess are reflected. In the basement, Zeni shoots “Thunder Breathing Ichino-type Kasumi Ippen Rokuren.” Then the light, like a dazzling flash, is illuminated. Perhaps those details are adjusted in the shooting section. The art director of episode 5 is Koji Eto, the color designer is Yuko Omae, and the cinematographer is Yuichi Terao. Both are the primary staff indispensable for ufotable works.
The demon slaughter corps is always fighting in the darkness of the night, which is advantageous for demons. In “Kimetsu no Yaiba,” the battle scene is always night, so color and lighting are essential. The battle between the land of the first string and the demon slaughter corps finally begins. If you pay attention to the subtle distinction of colors, you can see the greatness of the image of the animation “Kimetsu no Yaiba.”
