Canon (2006)
| Anime television series | |
|---|---|
| title | canon |
| Original title | カ ノ ン |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2006 |
| Studio | Kyōto animation |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 24 |
| genre | drama |
| Theme music |
Ayana - Last regrets Ayana - Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho |
| idea | Key / Visual Art’s |
| music | Jun Maeda, OdiakeS, Shinji Orito |
| First broadcast | October 5, 2006 on BS-i |
Canon is an anime - television series made by Kyoto Animation was produced in the year of 2006. It is based on the plot of the computer game of the same name, Kanon, and is a remake of the first anime version in 2002, which was also called Kanon . After the previous production, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, was an unexpectedly great success, high expectations were also attached to this series, which were largely met.
action
The plot was largely taken from the computer game Canon . However, it not only represents a possible path through the plot, but also connects all five storylines of the game into one story. The student Yūichi Aizawa is staying with his aunt Akiko Minase and her daughter Nayuki due to his parents' work abroad. Yūichi, who lost memories of his childhood seven years ago, meets as the protagonist with five girls from his past in order to build a relationship with them and to regain his lost memories.
Emergence
Almost four years after the first implementation as an anime television series, the Japanese studio Kyōto Animation produced a remake of the series. The implementation took place on the basis of the positive reception of the Air produced last year - also an implementation of a key / visual arts game - in which Nayuki Minase, Ayu Tsukimiya and Makoto Sawatari also had a cameo appearance with their original voices . Director Tatsuya Ishihara staged the plot developed by Fumihiko Shimo as the main author, which is strongly based on the original and comprises 24 episodes. Although the plot does not differ from the first implementation, the larger number of episodes allowed more details of the game to be implemented. Kazumi Ikeda largely adopted the character design from the computer game, but gave several characters a more adult look.
Technically, a mixture of animation and computer animation was used. In the opening credits, the characters were almost completely animated on the computer, which made flying hair possible, but also resulted in individual clipping errors. On closer inspection, it can be seen that some strands of hair seem to penetrate the shoulder and disappear into it. Within the series, mostly hand-drawn figures are used, whereby the eyes were also created on the computer and "copied into". The components of the individual scenes (background, animated falling snow, characters, light effects, foreground elements) were also combined with each other on the computer, which allowed fluid camera pans and gently falling snow (also computer-animated) although the figures were drawn at a lower frame rate.
The background music was produced by the composers Jun Maeda, OdiakeS and Shinji Orito. The pieces have previously been released and used again on the albums Recollections , Re-feel and Ma-Na . Together with the singer Ayana , the tracks Last regrets and Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho , which were released on the album Anemoscope in 1999, were re-recorded. The arrangement of the shortened titles for the opening and closing credits of the series was again done by Kazuya Takase from I've Sound . Both tracks were released on the single Last regrets / Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho in multiple variations, including the television version.
Johann Pachelbel's composition Kanon und Gigue in D major , whose melody was already used in the game, can be heard in several scenes . This allusion is supported by the fact that all titles of the individual episodes contain the English names of varieties of classical music. So is z. B. the title of the first episode Hakugin no Jokyoku - overture ( 白銀 の 序曲 ～ overture ～ ) and includes the English term overture (Eng. " Overture "). Theron Martin (an Anime News Network writer ) noted that the name canon would be derived from the musical term canon and it would also provide an explanation for why the episodes were named appropriately.
There are not only allusions to the music, but also to the earlier works of the Key employees. So immersed Rumi Nanase - a main character in One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e - at several points within the series on without playing any important role.
Publications
On August 25, 2006, Kanon Prelude, a teaser released on DVD, was released. This limited edition medium produced by Pony Canyon included interviews with the producers, an unnamed version of the opening and closing credits, and excerpts from the anime. The series was broadcast from October 5, 2006 to March 15, 2007 for the first time on the Japanese television station BS-i . In the credits of the last episode of this series, work on an anime adaptation of Clannad , which is also based on a game of the same name by Key, was announced. In the period from January 1, 2007 to August 1, 2007, all episodes of Pony Canyon were released on DVD with the region code 2 both as regular editions and as a collector's edition .
Outside of Japan, the remake was initially licensed for the English-speaking area by AD Vision for its subsidiary ADV Films in September 2007 and the licensing was announced at Anime Weekend Atlanta . In advance of the licensing, ADV Films released a trailer for Canon and made hints that the same speakers who were already working on the dubbing of the television series Air could also be used for Canon. The license was transferred to Funimation in July 2008, along with another 30 licenses .
On January 1, 2008, ADV Films released the first of six DVDs in the United States . They each contained four episodes of the series and still contained a few extras. These were a video about the creation of the anime (was distributed in several parts over the DVDs), opening and closing credits without writing and preview films of the further episodes. The DVDs were dubbed in English by JN Productions, a company specializing in the translation of English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean media. In addition to the English soundtrack, all DVDs also had the original Japanese soundtrack with optional English subtitles. In this context, the first episode of Kanon was offered as a free stream on Anime News Network , but it was restricted to an IP range within North America . The DVDs were published approximately monthly until the final sixth edition appeared on August 1, 2008.
In Korea , the series was of Animax Korea transferred and in China from ProWare Multimedia International licensed.
On December 16, 2009, the series was released in Japan on Blu-ray in a box with English subtitles at a price of ¥ 62,580 (about € 480).
Voice actor
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Yūichi Aizawa | Tomokazu Sugita |
| Ayu Tsukimiya | Yui Horie |
| Nayuki Minase | Mariko Koda |
| Makoto Sawatari | Mayumi Iizuka |
| Mai Kawasumi | Yukari Tamura |
| Shiori Misaka | Akemi Satō |
| Sayuri Kurata | Tomoko Kawakami |
| Akiko Minase | Yūko Minaguchi |
| Kaori Misaka | Ayako Kawasumi |
| Mishio Amano | Maaya Sakamoto |
| Jun Kitagawa | Tomokazu Seki |
| Kuze | Kenji Nojima |
reception
The strong Moe factor of Kanon would be noticed by the viewer right at the beginning and thus give the impression that everything would develop according to a "formulaic [in the sense of cliché] harem festival". ( Theron Martin , an author of Anime News Network , is alluding to a typical development in anime, in which a male actor has to deal with many female characters.) Kanon also initially gave the impression of an improved Air - especially with regard to the fine but also intense humor - which even director Tatsuya Ishihara admitted in the DVD extras when he called it a goal of the production. The original impression is dispelled by the serious content. This takes the series to a higher level and many of the critics agreed: Kanon has a plot that raises more and more questions as it progresses, and everything doesn't seem to make sense until the puzzles finally resolve. This creates an arc of tension which, together with the strong bond with the characters and their dramatically staged past and present, leads the viewer to consume one episode after the other.
In terms of content, the first four episodes should be designed similarly to the previous series Air , but the interactions between the characters would be a lot more fun, which tears the series out of its pure Moe content. This works much better than with Shuffle! as the characters would win the audience's affection on their own without overdoing it in any way. The characters are worked out very differently and thus appeal to a wide audience, as everyone can be enthusiastic about one or the other of them.
"A fine remake that addresses any and all issues the first version had."
"A nice remake that took care of each and every problem of the first version."
The series is visually convincing and Kyōto Animation knows how to skillfully handle well- rendered and animated elements. Compared to the first film, the remake cuts a better figure. The animations are nicer and the larger number of episodes would better reflect the real potential of the plot. It is the best work of the studio so far. Many stylistic components have been taken over from Air and further improved. Slight weaknesses were attributed to the backgrounds and the character design, which was sometimes too cute (e.g. the wings on Ayus rucksack). The girls' faces are designed according to an extreme form of the “ big eyes, small mouth ” scheme, which might not suit everyone's taste. Nevertheless, the design typical of Itaru Hinoue would just manage to walk the tightrope and not drown in sugar.
The music from the pen of Jun Maeda was perceived differently. It is described as atmospheric and grandiose or as too sober and not very creative. The strong similarity of the opening credits Last regrets to the predecessor Air was criticized, while the credits Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho appear much fresher.
literature
- Canon Visual memories . Ichijinsha, 2007, ISBN 978-4-7580-1079-5 .
Web links
- Official website for the television series ( Memento of February 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) by Kyōto Animation (Japanese)
References and comments
- ^ Theron Martin: Canon DVD 4-5 - Review. Anime News Network , July 29, 2008, accessed on August 31, 2008 (English, that the author considers “Kanon” to be a misspelling probably because the name was taken from the German.): “It is apparently a misspelling of "canon," a reference to a type of contrapuntal song involving rhythms or verses repeated in offset starting points, which also explains why all of the episode names use musical references and, in a sense, reflects the story's own cycling structure. "
- ↑ Canon (TV 2/2006) - Trivia. Anime News Network , accessed on August 19, 2008 (English, corresponding pictorial references are linked on the page).
- ↑ a b TV ア ニ メ「Canon」 公式 HP. Tokyo Broadcasting System , accessed August 19, 2008 (Japanese).
- ^ List of the episodes of Kanon (TV 2/2006). Anime News Network , accessed August 19, 2008 .
- ↑ ADV's Acquisition of 2 nd canon Series Confirmed at AWA. Anime News Network , September 22, 2007, accessed August 28, 2008 .
- ↑ ADV Films Posts Trailers for Second Kanon TV Series (Updated). Anime News Network , August 8, 2007, accessed August 28, 2008 .
- ↑ Funimation Picks Up Over 30 Former AD Vision Titles. Anime News Network , July 4, 2008, accessed August 28, 2008 .
- ↑ Canon (DVD 1). Anime News Network , accessed August 29, 2008 .
- ↑ News: Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, April 26-May 2. In: Anime News Network. May 9, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c d Theron Martin: Canon DVD 1 - Review. Anime News Network , December 22, 2007, accessed August 28, 2008 .
- ^ A b littlejonny100: Canon Review. minitokyo.net, April 13, 2007, accessed August 28, 2008 .
- ↑ a b c Theron Martin: Canon DVDs 2-3 - Review. Anime News Network , April 8, 2008, accessed August 31, 2008 .
- ↑ Stig Høgset: Kanon 2006. THEM Anime Reviews, accessed on October 21, 2008 (English): "[…] which allows the show to avoid falling into the same kind of haremish trappings that made Shuffle such a monumental piece of crap."
- ↑ a b c Stig Høgset: Kanon 2006. THEM Anime Reviews, accessed on October 21, 2008 (English).