![]() Notably, the main character's ship does not. Artificial Gravity: The Eva ship in Magnetic Rose has this on its lower levels.The city of Cannon Fodder only exists to shoot cannons, all day, every day, and all of the activities of the people in it has been organized by the government to revolve around this (the children only learn trig and chemistry for the sake of figuring out shooting solutions, for example), they don't care about the safety of the citizens, and it's implied that there is actually no rival cities to shoot, but they lie about it, Nineteen Eighty-Four-style.The JSDF in Stink Bomb goes well above and beyond the call of overkill to try to stop Nobuo (although it's justified given how lethal he has unwittingly become), and the American military liaison that appears not only reveals himself as the man who ordered the creation of the bio-weapon Nobuo swallowed, but also conspires to capture Nobuo alive.At best one can guess he is Latino, but that's about it. He has a considerably darker skin tone, especially when compared to the obviously Caucasian Heinz and Ivanov, and the Japanese Aoshima, but the short doesn't give any hint of his past, nationality or ethnicity. ![]() Ambiguously Brown: Miguel Costrela, from Magnetic Rose.Ambiguous Situation: By the end of Cannon Fodder, it's left unclear if the enemy city actually exists and the cannon city simply cannot reliably hit it but lies to its populace anyways, or the enemy city used to or never existed at all and the government of the cannon city simply uses its threat as a means to control the population.Is a Crapshoot: The computer in Magnetic Rose carries out Eva's escapist fantasy long after Eva is dead, destroying other spaceships to assimilate them into itself. in 2021 including a brand new English dub, with NYAV Post handling Magnetic Rose and Sound Cadence Studio handling Stink Bomb & Cannon Fodder. Has a Spiritual Successor in Short Peace, also produced by Otomo.ĭiscotek Media has licensed the film for Blu-ray release in the U.S. The story centers on the residents of a city of cannons that is forever at war. Uses a unique animation style to give the illusion of being filmed in one long take. A Black Comedy featuring a worker from a bioresearch facility, a weapon of mass destruction, and a lot of chaos.Ĭannon Fodder, written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with music by Hiroyuki Nagashima. Stink Bomb, directed by Tensai Okamura from a screenplay by Katsuhiro Otomo, with key animation by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and music by Jun Miyake. Two men from a spaceship go to investigate, and find much more than they bargained for. It's set in space, where a presumably abandoned space station gives out a distress signal. Magnetic Rose, directed by Koji Morimoto from a screenplay by Satoshi Kon, with music by Yoko Kanno. It was released in Japan on December 23, 1995. ![]() Katsuhiro Otomo produced the film, but each of the episodes was directed, scripted, and had music composed by a different team, giving each episode a different style. Memories is a set of three anime episodes adapted from three of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga short stories. ![]()
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