The boy and the beast
| The boy and the beast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | バ ケ モ ノ の 子 |
| transcription | Bakemono no Ko |
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| Anime movie | |
| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| Studio | Studio Chizu |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Director | Mamoru Hosoda |
| script | Mamoru Hosoda |
| production | Yuichiro Saito , Takuya Itō , Atsushi Chiba , Genki Kawamura |
| music | Takagi Masakatsu |
| Manga | |
| country |
Japan
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| author | Mamoru Hosoda |
| Illustrator | Renji Asai |
| publishing company | Kadokawa |
| magazine | Shonen Ace |
| First publication | April 25, 2015 - ... |
| expenditure | 2 |
The Boy and the Beast ( Japanese バ ケ モ ノ の 子 , Bakemono no Ko ) is an anime film from 2015. The fantasy and action adventure was based on the script and directed by Mamoru Hosoda . The film won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Animated Film and was adapted as a manga .
action
After the mother of nine-year-old Ren (蓮), who lived alone with her after the parents' divorce, died, he was supposed to stay with foster parents. Because his father cannot be found. But he doesn't want to stay there and runs away, goes to Shibuya . Meanwhile , the ruler of the beast kingdom (渋 天 街, jūtengai ) decides to retire and become a god. His possible successors are the popular Iōzen, father of two children, and the strong Kumatetsu (熊 徹) who lives alone and is lazy. The Lord of the Beasts (バ ケ モ ノ, bakemono ) advises Kumatetsu to find a student in order to have better chances for the successor. While he is wandering through Tokyo with his friend Tatara, he meets Ren and wants to make the boy his student. Ren is against it, but initially follows Kumatetsu out of curiosity, but also on the run from the police, to the kingdom of the beasts. But he won't come back alone. But when he watched a fight between Iōzen and Kumatetsu, he was impressed by Kumatetsus, as he did not give up despite the lack of audience support. Finally he cheers on Kumatetsu, who however loses. However, the real battle for the succession has not yet begun.
As his student, Kumatetsu Ren gives a new name: Kyūta (九 太). At first he fails to teach the boy anything because Kumatetsu does not know how to teach. But Kyūta notices how he can learn from the beast in everyday work by imitating him, and so he soon succeeds in doing this in combat training as well. Eight years later, Kyūta has become a seasoned kendo fighter through training. And Kumatetsu is no longer alone, but has gained more students after Kyūta and is a sought-after teacher of martial arts.
Finally, by chance, Kyūta manages to get back into the human world. He gets to know Kaede (楓) who helps him catch up on the missing school knowledge. He also learns that his father is looking for him and wants to be reconciled with him. Torn between his new self and the childhood grudges he harbored against his father, he rejects both him and Kumatetsu. Without them, Kyūta now feels lonely and there is a great emptiness in him. Finally, Kaede comforts him and gives him a bracelet that once helped her out of desperation.
On the day of the fight for the succession in the Kingdom of the Beasts, Kumatetsu has little self-confidence because Kyūta does not support him. But Kyūta is secretly present and when he reveals himself, Kumatetsu can win the fight. When he is proclaimed the winner and new ruler, Iōzen's son Ichirōhiko (一郎 彦) shows himself. This is actually a human who was adopted by Iōzen. From his identity conflict as a human being among beasts, he too developed a void in himself and from this he developed strong telekinetic abilities, which he now uses against Kumatetsu. But Kyūta can stop him with the help of Kaede's bracelet. Ichirōhiko is consumed by its emptiness and disappears.
Kyūta decides to return to the human world to fight Ichirōhiko when he returns. Together with Kaede, he is attacked by Ichirōhiko in the shape of a whale. Since he has no other means, Kyūta uses the emptiness in him as a weapon. It will soak up the energy of his opponent, the opponent and ultimately himself, so that he sacrifices himself for the others. But Kumatetsu intervenes and transforms - now that he is ruler of the beasts - into a god in the form of a sword. He fills the void in Kyūta and fights with it as his weapon to defeat the enemy without killing him. After celebrating victory in the world of beasts, Kyūta returns to the world of humans. Here he is reconciled with his father and begins studying. He keeps Kumatetsu in his heart. Ichirōhiko wakes up with his adoptive family and accepts his identity as a human raised among beasts.
production
The film was made in 2015 at Studio Chizu based on a script and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The character design was created by Daisuke Iga , Mamoru Hosoda and Takaaki Yamashita ; the artistic direction lay with Takashi Omori , Yohei Takamatsu and Yōichi Nishikawa . The music was composed by Masakatsu Takagi .
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German voice actors |
|---|---|---|
| Kumatetsu | Kōji Yakusho | Matti Klemm |
| Kyūta / Ren |
Shōta Sometani Aoi Miyazaki (child) |
Christian Zeiger Luisa Wietzorek (child) |
| Kaede | Suzu Hirose | Lina Rabea Mohr |
| Tatara | Yo Oizumi | Tobias Lelle |
| Hyakushūbō | Lily Franky | Alexander Doering |
| Soshi | Masahiko Tsugawa | Peter Groeger |
| Iōzen | Kazuhiro Yamaji | Hans-Eckart Eckhardt |
| Ichirōhiko |
Mamoru Miyano Haru Kuroki (child) |
Jeffrey Wipprecht Victoria Frenz (child) |
| Jiromaru |
Kappei Yamaguchi Momoka Ono (child) |
Sebastian Kluckert Maximiliane Häcke (child) |
| Chiko | Sumire Morohoshi | Cathlen Gawlich |
| Kyūta's mother | Kumiko Aso | |
| Kyūta's father | Keishi Nagatsuka | Florian Hoffmann |
publication
The film was released in Japanese cinemas on July 11, 2015, and was distributed by Tōhō . The first international screening was at the Toronto International Film Festival , followed by the BFI London Film Festival in October 2015. In December 2014, Gaumont secured the sales rights to the film outside Asia and the cinema rights for France, where the cinema premiere followed on January 13, 2016. It was released in theaters in the United States on March 4, 2016.
Universum Film wants to show Der Junge und das Best on July 11, 2016 with German synchronization in 13 cinemas and from July 29, 2016 on Blu-ray. Funimation licensed the anime for an American DVD release, StudioCanal for the UK and Ireland, Madman Entertainment for Australia, and Mongrel Media for Canada.
Manga adaptation
Based on the story of Mamoru Hosoda, Renji Asai designed a manga series that has appeared in the manga magazine Shōnen Ace since April 25, 2015 (issue 6/2015) and so far (as of June 2018) comprises four volumes. A German translation has been published by Tokyopop since May 2016 . An English version is also published by Yen Press , a French version by Kazé and a Spanish version by Planeta DeAgostini .
reception
Grossing results
On the opening weekend, the film was number 1 in the Japanese box office and grossed about 5.4 million dollars, with 492,000 viewers in 457 screenings. With grossing $ 48.6 million, the film was the second most successful in Japan in 2015. In the US, the anime was number 28 on the opening weekend, grossing a total of $ 474,000.
Reviews
The Rotten Tomatoes platform received 87% positive reviews, based on 39 reviews, with an average of 7.6 / 10. The calculation of the weighted mean at Metacritic resulted in a rating of 65 out of 100, based on 13 reviews.
Mark Schilling of The Japan Times wrote that the film has more in common with Harry Potter films than with a usual fantasy film by Hayao Miyazaki that focuses on a female character . The plot focuses on Kyuta's long journey not only to become strong but also to grow up. Richard Eisenbeis wrote at Kotaku that the anime was "on the one hand an entertaining adventure about growing up and on the other hand an excellent exploration of the fantasy theme." The film is perfect for all ages as it has something to offer everyone. In the Los Angeles Times Charles Solomon wrote that the "refreshing" story told by "two insecure individuals who find together with love and discipline their place in the world." Peter Debruge called the anime in Variety a "action-filled buddy A film that strategically combines some of the most popular ingredients in Japanese films: quarreling teenagers, supernatural beings and epic battles. ”Peter Keough of The Boston Globe gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 and wrote that Hosoda succeeded in an eclectic mix of different make familiar stories and concepts seem original, and in The Washington Post , Pat Padua wrote that it was the world of humans, not that of the beast, that gave the film its poignant moments.
Andy Webster praises the impressively staged fights and backgrounds with interesting perspectives like that of a surveillance camera in The New York Times . The character drawing and the plot-bearing conflicts remained arbitrary. According to Sherilyn Connelly of The Village Voice , the film works with much of what has already been seen in anime and offers nothing new.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Umimachi Diary, Boy & the Beast, Bakuman Win Japan Academy Prizes . March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
- ↑ The Boy and the Beast. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Elsa Keslassy: Gaumont Dives Into Japanese Animation with Mamoru Hosoda's 'The Boy and The Beast' , Variety . December 12, 2014.
- ↑ 細 田 守 監督 最新 作 は 「バ ケ モ ノ の 子」！ フ ラ ン ス で の 公開 が 既 に 決定 (Japanese) . December 11, 2014.
- ↑ Universe Anime: Cinema date for "The Boy and the Beast" known. In: Anime, Manga and Asian films on aniSearch.de. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Elsa Keslassy: FUNimation Entertainment Acquires US Rights To Mamoru Hosoda's 'The Boy and The Beast' , Variety. May 15, 2015.
- ^ Emilio Mayorga: Annecy: Gaumont to launch 'Boy and the Beast' Jan. 13 , Variety. 19th July 2015.
- ↑ The Boy and the Beast Film Gets Canadian Screenings Starting on May 27 . Anime News Network. February 29, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
- ↑ Mark Schilling: Japan Box Office: 'Boy And The Beast' Opens Ahead of 'Terminator Genisys' , Variety . July 13, 2015.
- ↑ Top 10 Grossing Domestic Japanese Films of 2015 Listed . Anime News Network . January 1, 2016. Accessed January 1, 2016.
- ↑ The Boy and the Beast (2016) - Box Office Mojo .
- ↑ The Boy And The Beast (Bakemono No Ko) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . NBCUniversal. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ↑ The Boy and the Beast . In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ↑ Mark Schilling: Successor to Hayao Miyazaki's throne turns Shibuya into a realm of beasts . In: The Japan Times . July 15, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ^ Richard Eisenbeis: The Boy and the Beast is the Anime Version of The Jungle Book . Kotaku . July 15, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ↑ Charles Solomon: Review Animated 'Boy and the Beast' draws on emotional depth to rise above typical martial arts saga . In: Los Angeles Times . December 3, 2015. Accessed March 24, 2016.
- ^ Peter Debruge: Film Review: 'The Boy and the Beast' . In: Penske Media Corporation (Ed.): Variety . September 23, 2015. Accessed May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Peter Keough: Suspended anime in 'The Boy and the Beast' . In: The Boston Globe . March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ↑ Pat Padua: A boy comes of age, with the help of talking animals, in this cartoon fantasy . In: The Washington Post . March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ↑ Andy Webster: In 'The Boy and the Beast,' Learning From Anime Animals . In: The New York Times . March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
- ↑ Sherilyn Connelly: Familiar Anime Tale 'The Boy and the Beast' Presumes That Beasts Are Pretty Dumb . In: The Village Voice . March 1, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)
- The boy and the beast in the Internet Movie Database (English)