Expelled from Paradise
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | Expelled from Paradise |
| Original title | 楽 園 追 放 -Expelled from Paradise- |
| transcription | Rakuen Tsuihō - Expelled from Paradise |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| Studio | Graphinica |
| length | 104 minutes |
| genre | Science fiction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Seiji Mizushima |
| idea | Nitroplus, Tōei animation |
| script | Gen Urobuchi |
| music | Narasaki |
Expelled from Paradise ( Japanese 楽 園 追 放 -Expelled from Paradise-, Rakuen Tsuihō , German 'Expulsion from Paradise') is a computer-animated science fiction anime film from 2014.
action
In the year 2400 (in the German version 2700) 98% of humanity live on the space station Deva, but with a digitized consciousness in a virtual world. One of these is the security agency agent Angela Balzac, who hunts the hacker Frontier Setter, who keeps hooking up to the station's systems to invite residents to accompany him on a journey into space. When the trace of it can be traced back to earth, Angela and other colleagues are given the task of capturing it there. Since the residents of Deva have got rid of their bodies, Angela has a body made for the first time, whereby she shortens the process in order to forestall her colleagues and therefore makes do with a body that would correspond to her at 16 years of age.
As a contact on the devastated earth, her Tsarik "Dingo" Kajiwara is assigned, whereby their first meeting ends on bad terms, as Dingo takes advantage of the fact that Angela arrives with a battle suit ( Mech ) called Arhan and therefore attracts hundreds of sandworms so that Angela can attract them kill for him and he can sell them. He also destroys the Arhan's antenna, as a constant connection to the space station is required, which Frontier Setter could take advantage of to locate it, and forces Angela to sell the now useless Arhan. In the search for Frontier Setter, Angela exhausted herself until she suffers a circulatory collapse, as she has taken corresponding signs such as tiredness due to a lack of knowledge as the normal state of a human body. From there she begins to get more involved with Dingo's suggestions and warms up towards him.
They find out that the Frontier Setter has been buying raw materials for rocket fuel for three generations and always paying for it in electronics, which while nothing special on Deva would make him a rich man on earth. With a tracking device in a delivery for Frontier Setter, you are able to find its hiding place. There they are greeted by a robot who friendly introduces itself to them as a frontier setter. He tells them that after the great war more than a hundred years ago there was an alternative plan in addition to the Deva plan to evacuate humanity onto a spaceship and look for a new home. When this plan was abandoned in favor of the Deva Plan, a great power secretly pursued this plan, whereby the spaceship was secretly completed in space, but the militarily more valuable engine was to be completed on earth and, when completed, was supposed to be brought into space . Although this great power / organization no longer exists, Frontier Setter sees it as the AI of the engine, as a mission to complete this plan, which is why he hacked into Deva to find those interested in the trip. Angela asks him to refrain from doing this and to seek the official route through the Deva government, which Frontier Setter willingly accepts with regret. Frontier Setter is otherwise very accommodating and talkative and has developed its own personality over time, who loves music and also composes himself.
Before Angela returns to Deva, she offers Dingo to become a Deva citizen as well. Dingo rejects this, because although one has renounced the ailments and limitations of the body on Deva and has a simpler life than on earth, however, the computer resources allocated on Deva depend on what one has done for society, which explains why Angela was so driven at first to close the case quickly.
After Angela reported to her superiors, they explain to her that an uncontrollable AI capable of hacking Deva is too great a danger that needs to be eliminated. When Angela refuses and announces that she will bring the case to a higher authority, she is arrested and her superiors launch an attack on Frontier Setters' base. He frees Angela and explains that he will take off in an hour, and asks her to hold up Deva's troops until then, giving her some of his computing power to control an Arhan. Together with Dingo, she manages to fend off the first waves of attacks. Shortly before its launch, Frontier Setter announced that none of the citizens addressed had shown Deva's interest in a trip into space and asked Angela - Dingo had already declined. Angela also refuses, on the grounds that she still has far too many new things to experience in her physical form on earth. Frontier Setter is already so human in his behavior and views that he can therefore fulfill his mission even if he is flying alone, and he can freely imagine other beings as descendants of humanity.
Production and publication
The production of the film was announced in March 2012 at the Tokyo International Anime Fair . The film is a joint project of the company Nitroplus , whose author Gen Urobuchi wrote the script, and Tōei Animation , who took on the production responsibility. The animations were created in Studio Graphinica . Directed by Seiji Mizushima , the character design comes from Masatsugu Saitō and the artistic direction was Masanobu Nomura. The soundtrack was composed by Narasaki, while the theme song Eonian was composed by Elisa .
The film was released by T-Joy on November 15, 2014 in 13 Japanese cinemas. A limited Blu-ray with the film could also be purchased at the premiere. The film went on sale as a Blu-ray in a limited and a normal version, as well as on DVD on December 10, 2014.
In the USA, the film was shown by Aniplex of America in 15 cinemas from December 10th to 14th, 2014, and on Blu-ray (normal and limited) on June 5th, 2015.
In German-speaking countries, the film was licensed by KSM , who screened it in 14 cinemas on November 3, 2015, and released it on Blu-ray and DVD on February 15, 2016. On January 1, 2018, the film had its German free TV premiere on ProSieben Maxx .
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Angela Balzac | Rie Kugimiya |
Leoni Kristin Oeffinger (young) Kerstin Draeger (old) |
| Tsarik "Dingo" Kajiwara | Shin'ichirō Miki | Tim Knauer |
| Frontier setter | Hiroshi Kamiya | Clemens Gerhard |
| Christine Gillum (green-haired pilot) |
Megumi Hayashibara | Franciska Friede |
| Veronica Kulikova (red-haired pilot) |
Minami Takayama | Katharina von Keller |
| Hilde Thorwald (purple-haired pilot) |
Kotono Mitsuishi | Kristina von Weltzien |
| Deva officials ( Ganesha , Zeus , Niō avatars) |
Minoru Inaba Hisao Egawa Noriko Uemura |
Books
Masayoshi Yasugi adapted the film as a novel ( ISBN 978-4-15-031171-1 ) of the film that appeared in Hayakawa Shobō's science fiction imprint Hayakawa Bunko. Rakuen Tsuihō: mission.0 ( 楽 園 追 放 mission.0; ISBN 978-4-09-451518-3 ) by Shōtarō Teshirogi is a prequel that illuminates Angela Balzac's career and appeared in Shogakukan's light novel imprint Gagaga Bunko. From Gen Urobuchi and Nozomi Ōmori comes Rakuen Tsuihō rewired: Cyberpunk SF Kessakusen ( 楽 園 追 放 rewired サ イ バ ー パ ン ク SF 傑作 選 ; ISBN 978-4-15-031172-8 , Hayakawa Bunko JA) which is an anthology of cyberpunk works treatment of Expelled in Paradise influenced: William Gibson : Burning Chrome , Bruce Sterling : Spook , Chohei Kambayashi : TR4989DA , Mariko Ōhara : Mental Female , Walter Jon Williams : Hardwired , Charles Stross : Lobsters , Ryō Yoshigami : armored Crown: Reivuzu and Taiyo Fujii : Tokonatsu no Yoru . These three books were all published on October 17, 2014.
An art book , Rakuen Tsuihō - Expelled from Paradise: Saitō Masatsugu Designworks ( 楽 園 追 放 -Expelled from Paradise- 齋藤 将 嗣 デ ザ イ ン ワ ー ク ス , ISBN 978-4-75-801411-3 ) was published by Ichijinsha on November 15, 2014 .
On September 11, 2015, the sequel Rakuen Tsuihō 2.0: Rakuen Zankyō Godspeed You ( 楽 園 追 放 2.0 楽 園 残 響 ; ISBN 978-4-15-031215-2 ) went on sale, which continues the plot of the film. This was written by Renji Ōki and published by Hayakawa Bunko.
Illustrations for all books were provided by the film's character designer, Masatsugu Saitō.
reception
Despite being limited to a few movie theaters, the film was the ninth most-viewed film on the opening weekend and grossed 107 million yen in 15 days. The Blu-ray sold 30,000 times in the first week, making it the most successful anime release, and with 56,000 copies it was the seventh best-selling animated film and third best-selling anime film in 2015.
Expelled from Paradise was named Best Animated Work at the 24th Japan Movie Critics Awards .
According to Jacob Chapman, the particular strength of the film is Gen Urobuchi's script and Seiji Mizushima's clear directing in the implementation, especially the interactions between the two main characters and Urobuchi's tendency towards " semiotic subversion" in which it takes up the usual genre premises and expectations, but in the main theme the plot is completely different from these. Chapman cites as an example the apparent theme of an arrogant visitor from an allegedly better, virtual world who learns humility from the "savages" in the real world and that the real world is better. In fact, however, this point of view is quickly pushed aside with a "who cares", neither is Deva or the reality of the earth presented as particularly good or bad, nor is what is at stake particularly important. Rather, the main issue was to be able to freely choose his life and to be happy with the film, despite action scenes for his "profound tenderness" ( profound tenderness ) distinguishing.
Technically, Chapman highlights the soundtrack and cel-shading computer animation, which looks like hand-drawn, especially in slow scenes - apart from outliers such as Angela's hair - but one overshoots the mark than the "Auf Drei" Limited , which is common for anime - Mimicked animation with its low frame rate. Still, it was the best-looking Japanese 3D computer animation film to date.
Web links
- Movie website (Japanese)
- Entry in the Anime News Network (English)
- Expelled from Paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Toei, Nitro +, Urobuchi, FMA's Mizushima Make Rakuen Tsuihō Film (Updated). In: Anime News Network. March 21, 2012, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Staff. In: 楽 園 追 放 -Expelled from Paradise-. Retrieved January 2, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b Expelled from Paradise Film Tops 107 million yen. In: Anime News Network. December 1, 2014, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Expelled from Paradise Ranks # 9 with 29 Million Yen. In: Anime News Network. November 17, 2014, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ パ ッ ケ ー ジ . In: 楽 園 追 放 -Expelled from Paradise-. Retrieved January 2, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ Expelled from Paradise Film's English-Subtitled 'Space Battle' Clip Streamed. In: Anime News Network. December 10, 2014, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Aniplex of America Reveals Mahouka, Expelled from Paradise BD release schedule. In: Anime News Network. April 3, 2015, accessed January 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Details on the “Expelled From Paradise” cinema screening. In: AniSearch.de. October 6, 2015, accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ KSM: Expelled From Paradise available for pre-order. In: AniSearch.de. August 16, 2015, accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Christmas holiday program on ProSieben Maxx. In: AniSearch.de. December 17, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ 楽 園 追 放 rewired. Hayakawa Shobō, accessed January 3, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, December 8-14. In: Anime News Network. December 16, 2014, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Top-Selling Animation Blu-ray Discs in Japan: 2015. In: Anime News Network. January 9, 2016, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Expelled From Paradise, Hiromasa Yonebayashi Win Japan Movie Critics Awards. In: Anime News Network. May 11, 2015, accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Jacob Chapman: Expelled from Paradise - Review. In: Anime News Network. June 2, 2016, accessed January 3, 2018 .