Author: Andrew Osmond.
god of high school is an unusual, maybe even unique animation set in Korea, by Korean heroes, Korean directors, and adapted from Korean comics. At the same time, it is undoubtedly an anime produced by the famous MAPPA studio in Tokyo. It laid much of the foundation for MAPPA’s reputation for crazy action animation and was a direct precursor to MAPPA’s subsequent hits, Jujutsu Kaisen – Initiated by the same director Sunghoo Park,
settings god of high school is ridiculously generic. The story takes place in the modern world, but The God of High School is the world of a large martial arts tournament. Its contestants are all super warriors, as good as you’d expect them to be Shonen Jump Comics, whose heroes are Shonen Jump Type also. He’s Jin Mori, a cantankerous, impulsive, good-natured fool who oversleeps on race day for the first time and is forced to race on his bike – a situation that sends him into a wild adventure even before he even competes among. Just as naturally, he quickly bonds with the other two contestants, a more serious boy (Dei) and a scary sword-wielding girl (Mira).
There are, of course, more stories, some involving the young men’s respective backgrounds, and there are hints that this is more than just a world championship. Although the original god of high school The comic introduces a ton of different mythologies from around the world, and it’s worth noting that the story revolves around a specific trickster hero who’s iconic in Japan and Korea, but who hails from China. (If that wasn’t enough of a clue, the same scammer also backed dragon ball franchise, older British viewers may know him from the live-action Japanese TV version in the 1970s.
Nonetheless, many god of high schoolIts appeal comes from its unabashedly simple setting; a massive tournament with intense battles. In this way, it’s like another Korean manga adapted into anime, tower of god (The premise is “a hero struggles to climb an endless tower.”) Both series are the result of a collaboration between American company Crunchyroll and the popular Korean online platform Webtoon.
As explained in previous articles on this blog tower of godWebtoon platform publishes Korean comics (comics) can be read online on smartphones. An English version has been available since 2014; its readership will reportedly reach 89 million active users by 2022. this god of high school The comic strip can be read for free here; its author is Yongje Park, who is not related to animation director Sunghoo Park.
In a video interview, Yongje Park said that while he is influenced by a variety of media, video games are a key source of inspiration. “When I was in junior high and high school, I was obsessed with iron fist, king of warriorsand street fighter most. The character designs alone open up a world of imagination. ‘Why is this character participating in this tournament? What kind of past led this character to use this kind of martial arts? This character is really cool – what kind of martial art is this? These ideas inspire our work god of high school“.
In terms of animation, one of director Sunghoo Park’s influences is animated space adventures. This is a legendary story from the 1980s Macross – Original TV series and moviesMacross: Do you remember love? This prompted him to move from his native South Korea to Japan to study and enter the animation industry. He made his directorial debut with the 2017 animated fantasy action series, Garo: Vanishing Linealso produced by MAPPA, but god of high school It will make Sunghoo Park famous. He’ll go from there to Season 1 Jujutsu Kaisen and its hit movie prequel, Jiu Jitsu Kaiba 0. He has since left the franchise; the director’s next series will be Ninja Kamuiin February.
Park Sung-ho is known for his dizzyingly fast, fluid combat. He is a fan of Kawajiri Yoshiaki (Ninja Scroll) but he also credits an unnamed director with shaping his style. “There’s one director who really influenced me, and that director’s storyboards… they were very detailed for the action scenes. Like this happen, then this and this, divided into frames. It was really easy for me to work with them…very easy to understand what needed to be done. This really affected me. So when I storyboard…the action, the character’s movements, I draw every one of them. If there’s not enough space, I draw rectangles on the sides and use them to continue drawing. It’s really hard, but I think it’s also the most fun time.
There are still some god of high school This resulted in greater photorealism in motion capture, particularly in the battles of the tenth installment of the series. Sunghoo Park’s comments suggest he’s aware it might draw the ire of purists. “I know how (anime) is usually drawn, but compared to the reality that comes with shooting a martial arts expert… I really wanted to convey that. So the timing of 2D, the way it’s always been drawn, the martial artist The realism of the action; what would it look like if you mixed it all together? The motion capture was not done at MAPPA but at Sola studios, with stunt performers depicting things like Taekwondo (Sen’s style) and Taekwondo.
A little trivia; The President of the United States is god of high school The model in the anime is different from the model in the source bar. In the comics, you can guess the real-world model of the president from his name, President Oba Masharif. However, times had changed by the time the animation came out, and the president was based on… Marvel’s Iron Man, played on screen by Robert Downey Jr. The character is voiced by Keiji Fujiwara in Japanese. dubbing Downey Jr. in the Marvel movies. He also voices Mila’s uncle god of high schooland you may also know him as Holland eureka sevenMace Hughes in Both version of full metal alchemistand “Big Chin Sage Student Higuchi” Tatami Galaxy. Unfortunately, Fujiwara died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 55.
So far, god of high school and tower of god is the most famous example of Korean comics, or comics, was adapted into anime. In some ways, it’s strange that this doesn’t happen more often. Both K-pop and K-dramas have been exported to Japan with great success, and manga and animation have been adapted in Korea – you can find Korean live-action versions fancy man on Netflix. However, the anime industry is already stretched thin when it comes to adapting Japanese works, so it may not look further than that. Or maybe there’s fear of consumer backlash – a portion of the Japanese audience might reject it comics The adaptation is “not a real anime”.
Currently, webcomics are often derived from live-action Korean dramas, several of which are shown in the UK. Netflix has many horror series such as we are all dead, limbo, sweet Home and medieval zombie saga kingdom. Other webtoon adaptations on Netflix include DPa TV series about police officers catching deserters; ensemble drama Itaewon level; romantic comedy business proposal; and office series Unsheng: an incomplete life. fantasy action series island On Amazon Prime.
As of this writing, another high-profile webtoon adaptation is streaming— Solo training and waiting, excerpted from a popular serial on the KakaoPage platform (a competitor to Webtoon). Will Japan steal the bottomless pit of comics from neighboring countries on a larger scale? We don’t know yet, but the format is on a high around the world and will likely continue to climb. Maybe it will eventually get so big that animation can’t affordable ignore it.
Andrew Osmond is 100 animated feature films. god of high school Distributed in the UK by Anime Limited.
