Possibly the biggest missed opportunity in anime history.
@DanielAspajo99303 жыл бұрын
Is not a miss opportunity they made the film, this is a pilot and many shows and movies has them in order the fix anything before the big release
@gabrielf2043 жыл бұрын
@@DanielAspajo9930 Actually it suffered from a lot of bureaucracy and unstable production due to a disconnect between the animators, producers and directors, people entering and leaving the project, the language barrier and the different approaches to the animation genre, and others things that extended the project for more than 10 YEARS, it was just a fucking mess
@beyondbased3 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielf204 It's still a phenomenal film.
@OddOneOut6653 жыл бұрын
Miyazaki and Takahata couldn't agree on a Plot. One wanted to keep it all in a Dream, the other didn't.
This was better than the actual movie. Icarus is a human (which makes a lot of sense), it shows what Little Nemo is all about, and the animation is just spectacular. If something like this was made into a movie, it would be so good.
@AdmiralForsyth7 жыл бұрын
Honestly, the character of Icarus should be that of a teenaged Wright Flyer pilot, not a flying squirrel for comic relief. It'll make the plot much more understandable and it'll show this Icarus as the one who helps Nemo (along with many other characters) how to conquer his fears.
@rhett88197 жыл бұрын
While human Icarus is certainly not annoying (or as annoying) as the golem squirrel we went with, I still don't see what purpose Icarus even serves. I don't recall him being from the comics, which had plenty of characters to use.
@Mio2486 жыл бұрын
I'm honestly fine with him being a flying squirrel. He was cute and adorable to me. But then again, I didn't see this short film until just now. I originally saw the full feature film when I was a kid, so that's probably why it doesn't bother me. But I am shocked to hear that Icarus is supposedly an actual human pilot.
@jasontachin4 жыл бұрын
😮Wait! that was Icarus!?
@DanielAspajo99303 жыл бұрын
Yes agreed, with Icarus as a human bringing Nemo into slumberland makes more sense
@odoru_s40392 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. This whole project was like the story of NEMO itself. An absolute dream aborted. The fact that Nine Old Men and Japanese animators were assembled at least for a short period of time gave me goosebumps and made me cry.
@Mesterius1 Жыл бұрын
Japenese animators were always involved. The entire film was animated in Japan. As for the Nine Old Men, I believe only two of them were involved: Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, who acted as animation consultants. I wish they hadn't, because the final film has this clichéd, overly Americanized, Disneyesque look to the character designs which it would have been better off without.
@TheArtkaw6 жыл бұрын
I just love all that this Nemo owned a lot of beautiful flying machines and airplanes in his room - clearly if Miyazaki and Kondo had their way, they would've played a major part in the film.
@gundanout113 жыл бұрын
Little Nemo really needs an anime reboot.
@YumegakaMurakumo3 жыл бұрын
@@gundanout11 100% Agreed. The pilot absolutely blew me away 💜🥰
This would have been a major masterpiece if this was the concept went forward with. The way the story builds up Nemo's character, the animation, art style, and the music. It had all the right cinematics for the 80s, similar to the Don Bluth movies that prevailed during that era.
From what I've heard, the plot for Little Nemo that Miyazaki and his associates created was later turned into a scenario featuring a boy meeting a girl with mystical artifact, chased by various forces(originally the girl was supposed to be a mermaid-like creature). It finally came out as The Castle in the Sky, as well as Hideaki Anno's Nadia, the Secret of Blue water, which eventually led to the creation of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Personally I would love to see Ghibli studios making a deep-sea adventure animation featuring a mermaid, steampunk ships/airships and a lost underwater civilization. I don't care if it is a reuse of Laputa, or that Nadia or Atlantis:the lost empire did it first. We need more Bel-epoch style, boy-meets-girl fantasy adventure!
@johnprudent32165 жыл бұрын
Dynamic doesn't begin to describe the animation. The energy and sense of wonder was just right. I would der what this would've looked like had it been fully realized.
GOOD GOD Japan could animate back in the day, the details, the subtleties, the technical skill, the framerate, it's breathtaking, gorgeous! And people say modern anime is going through a "golden age" right now, what a load of absolute crap, there isn't a modern animator or studio that has achieved in the past decade what this pilot does in 3 minutes.
@cobalt22575 жыл бұрын
I beg to differ. What about stuff like Houseki no Kuni or Puella Madoka whatever? I mean, good animation never died, it's just that you have a nostalgia filter.
@kloa42195 жыл бұрын
@@cobalt2257 I watched and liked those shows, but you couldn't be more wrong.
@bryanc70945 жыл бұрын
Cobalt225 idiot
@carlosluismendez73925 жыл бұрын
They still can animate amazing today. You just have nostalgia. I mean, you can even look crazy shit today in tv series like MOB psycho 100, Kyoani's shows or the amount of crazy movies that japan has made lately and are winning awards internationally. Japan right now is in the golden age of animation. Even the Movie Broly was a feast to the eyes and we are talking about TOEI.
@islandboy93814 жыл бұрын
Modern anime became less ''animated'' that's why
@user-ip4jq2lt3d Жыл бұрын
重心の書き方がエグすぎる…
@apricotsiroop5 жыл бұрын
こりゃすげえ
@-M___________________M-3 жыл бұрын
天才だよなぁ…ホント何もかも
@jamespuleo32694 жыл бұрын
This short was totally new to me..... The amount of detail makes it seem longer than its 3 1/2 minute running time~~ The feel of it expresses the intent of the original 115-year-old source material beautifully~~~ how the dream-fantasy can suddenly break down into chaos, resolving only because the child actually fell out of bed.
@DJYAMAME3 жыл бұрын
This is the true power of Japanese animators.It's a shame that it wasn't completed with this quality.
Omg. Why couldn't they have animated it like this?! Production hell takes another good one. 😩 I still like the full length film, but this is just beautiful.
@DTM-Books10 жыл бұрын
Arguably the greatest action sequence in anime history. And it's fascinating to see all the riffs - one shot quotes Animal Treasure Island, while two other shots were later quoted in My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso. Kondo, Tomanaga and crew, of course, worked with Miyazaki at Telecom and would do so again at Studio Ghibli years later. I would LOVE to see a 70mm print of this. Thanks!
@eleganthavoc9 жыл бұрын
Hi Daniel, could you give more detail on the "quoted" shots you mention. Where exactly are they in these films and what parts do they quote?
@DTM-Books9 жыл бұрын
The shot of Nemo's bed bouncing on the water: riffs Animal Treasure Island, seen again in Porco Rosso (and post-Miyazaki Sherlock Hound). The shot of Nemo flying through buildings, just before crashing into the skyscraper, was riffed by My Neighboro Totoro, in the scene where Satsuki rides Catbus in search of Mei.
@ChristopherSobieniak8 жыл бұрын
I kinda assume this friend was sent from Slumberland to get Nemo to join in him in going there. Earlier strips in Winsor McCay's series often had Nemo being visited by several people from there hoping to get him to go along there but Nemo often got into trouble before he even got there, leading to the famous last panel of the strip of him waking up in an odd position on or off the bed, remarking on the terrible dream he had or his parents complaining of a late night snack he had that caused it.
@ricarleite6 жыл бұрын
Someone did not see Nausicaa.
@antonco24 жыл бұрын
@@ricarleite Pfft ridiculous. Nausicaa is a masterpiece on its own right, but this? No anime in history comes close to this, maybe metropolis but that's it
@user-mz3co4ic1l Жыл бұрын
岡田さんの動画からキタ 凄い・・😮
@user-ze2ht7bq3u Жыл бұрын
As expected, it is a work that Hayao Miyazaki was involved in. A wonderful production like "Porco Rosso".
Love this scene! Kind of wish Icarus was human now even though squirrel version was adorable♡
@abloogywoogywoo2 жыл бұрын
He's a dream and meant to be Nemo's hetrosexual life partner. One minute he's a boy adventurer, the next a flying squirrel. Kinda like how Morgana from Persona 5 has multiple forms.
This is a lost memory of my childhood i have just found on the internet right know ...WOW
@stellasol52657 жыл бұрын
I remember this! Lookit all that smooth animation!!!!
@sqmeko3588 Жыл бұрын
岡田さんのおすすめで見に来たけど、確かにジブリ枠な感じする。ほかも見てみたくなる!
@kisaragi0756 жыл бұрын
Hayao Miyazaki is really great animator
@noisemarine5615 жыл бұрын
I kind of wish to follow in his footsteps... Maybe someday I can work with Japan on some of my stories. But for now, Im working on my ideas, my writing, and finding people who can help me.
@blackeesh4635 жыл бұрын
This wasnt animated by Hayao,and Hayao was never an animator,he was a director.
@derick12594 жыл бұрын
@@blackeesh463 He very much worked as an animator in the 60s and 70s, and he very much is hands on as an animator to this very day.
@blackeesh4634 жыл бұрын
@@derick1259 i don't know where you got that information,but hayao himself has stated that he only ever did storyboard and design apart from obviously directing. P.S of course he started of as a working animator in the 60s,but the point is you don't know Hayao for his animation ability,nor for the shows he animated in the 60s. He is known for his post Lupin work,at which point he never animated.
@ookurajonny9322 жыл бұрын
素晴らしい
@tsilva21832 жыл бұрын
This was cute, but I guess I'm the only one partial to the original movie i grew up with. Glad i still have it on tape and still have a great working vcr.
@douglasfreer3 жыл бұрын
Some of that footage is very recognizable being from the opening dream and when Nemo is doing the rescue mission to Nightmareland.
@carmix67213 жыл бұрын
Japanese animator ...Kondo.... You are genius...
@alejandrocortes711022 күн бұрын
They should honestly release a second version using this test pilot animation style and alternate story. The slumber land movie was good IMO, but I would still like to see this alternate come to life.
@TT-pv9fd2 жыл бұрын
Great!! I came this page from Toshio Okada channel笑
I believe if this had been the animation for the final full length feather then it would a classic today. Please someone remake Little Nemo animation!
@yohannbiimu Жыл бұрын
The end with Little Nemo falling out of his bed is pretty much how the last panels of the Winsor McKay comics would end, so that's fitting. All-in-all, it's a shame that Yoshifumi-san didn't stay on to work on it. Undoubtedly, the American elements of it made doing it right very difficult.
@myjourneytoafitterself33692 жыл бұрын
They should’ve made both versions and let the audience decide I would’ve bought bough versions I love the little Nemo in slumberland stories
@jenneacoleman-cubero23655 жыл бұрын
0:17-0:40 What that-Peter Pan what are you doing here?!
@robbiewalker28313 жыл бұрын
@Dorian Smith At first I keep calling him the real Icarus, but then I realize he already has a name, "Slivers": image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/national/40/565240/H4024-L72889580.jpg Sidenote, Professor Genius was there the whole time, he was called "Professor Figures".
@elinagouva45633 жыл бұрын
Peter pan and the pirates was animated by the same studio. No wonder the art style looks similar