ultradaikichi

somehow I’ve avoided seeing this, for whatever reason, for the better part of 13 years or so, though it’s been on my radar the entire time. Koike is a beast, man. I think that “animation” peaked with this movie: every frame is packed with detail and rendered with absurd fidelity. We won’t have something of this scale, this committed to the medium of hand-drawn 2d animation ever again, and that’s okay.

The movie feels like it is the embodiment of the platonic ideal of an OVA. every idea is a home run, and taken to the absolute max. Somehow the stars aligned and it was put to film. I’m so blessed that I was able to see this in a theatre, the sound design and quality shocked me, and helped to elevate the visuals to the intended level