![]() The story goes from here to there, through different moments of emotion. Here, everything is very structured, with a beginning and end. “It’s more contemporary, less structured. “I loved the fact the style of storytelling was so different to the west,” says the director. A beguiling mashup of six Haruki Murakami short stories set in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman emerged foremost from Földes’s own first contact with Japanese literature as a teenager. Anime and manga are a worldwide cultural force but nowhere more so than France – an unbelievable 55% of comics sold there in 2021 were manga, according to consumer research body GfK. ![]() The new animation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, by France-based animator Pierre Földes, shows that the French love affair with Japanese visual arts is still throbbing. Upon seeing Katsushika Hokusai’ s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa – a supposed inspiration for his own The Starry Night – he raved to his brother Theo in a letter: “The waves are claws, the boat is caught in them, you can feel it.” ![]() He went to the south of France hoping to encounter the same radiant nature and spiritual freshness that figured in his east-Asian fantasia. Japanese art deeply influenced his work, from his flattening of perspective to his bold lines. ![]() With the 19th-century japonisme craze in full swing, he coveted ukiyo-e woodblock prints like modern-day collectors hoard rare manga. It can be an entertaining read, but has little no substance.Y ou might say that Vincent van Gogh was one of the first Japanese pop-culture otaku (geeks) in Europe. A true wish-fulfilment manga where all the narrative problems of someone's head canon wet dream to be the strongest/ smartest person on earth rears it's head in laughably immature ways. The guy magically bound his former team in a contract to be nice to him as requisite for receiving training - this is not the type of person that should be deciding who is morally good enough to continue living.īut I guess none of this will matter to anyone that can switch their brains off and be wowed by the presentation alone, buying into the hype of each successive chapter - similar to Solo Levelling where character development doesn't exist. I don't see how more people don't find this premise as stupid and dangerous as I do, most fans of this title seem too wrapped up in adulating over how powerful he is. Deciding who gets executed based on a numerical value of the MC's subjective moral compass? Sounds like an extreme version of a social credit score, sounds like he's effectively placed the world under a dictatorship. The magic karma system is probably the worst of it. Conclusively making every 'significant' display of power/ knowledge utterly meaningless.Īll this manhwa is is a power fantasy of what the author would do if he found himself in a position of incredible power - this is more apparent with the last chapter as his biases are clearer than ever westerners bad, Koreans good. So what we are left with are feats that stretch the readers suspension of disbelief because they are just more vapid ways to dump points into the hype of power fantasy. The world building that is required to validate his existence beyond some level of plausible deniability is, frankly, beyond the current author's ability. Here we have the main fundamental issue with writing for a character that can do anything. The author merely dabbles in the socio-political, philosophical, cultural, and historical effects/ implications of the world-changing events the MC creates shallowly dedicating a few panels to things that could be the premise of an entirely new manga.īeing able to access real magic from an app on their phones? When was the last time this was mentioned? These are things that would change the course of history forever but they are meaningless in the grander scheme of the story, and the story is predicate on the making the MC look as impressive and benevolent as possible. What I mean is there are no consequences or tangible effects from say the mass resurrection of an entire city of people. The issue here is that nothing about the astounding displays are ever explored, they sort of just happen and are then tucked away and forgotten - life then continues as normal. The story must escalate and as the story is tied to the MC's feats, those must naturally get bigger and impressive. However, It suffers from the composite of it's parts. The manhwa has a very unique art-style, an interesting enough plot despite how woefully unoriginal it's premise is. In the 2010s I was criticising manga like Fairytale for it's over reliance on the power of friendship trope, more recently however it's this fascinating trend of wish fulfilment manhwa.
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