Negadon: The Monster from Mars

  • Masafumi Kishi as a broadcaster / Narrator
  • Takuma Sasahara as Seiji Yoshizawa
  • Dai Shimizu as Ryuichi Narasaki
  • Akane Yumoto as Emi Narasaki

Negadon - The Monster from Mars (Japanese惑星 大 怪獣 ネガドン, Wakusei Daikaiju Nedadon, GV "The Great Planet Monster Negadon " ) is a Japanese 3D animated film from 2005, and as a short film, the first work by Jun Awazu, the for to character design, script, animation and director is responsible. The film, which is attributed to the science fiction subgenre Kaiju, was supportive produced by the production studio CoMix Wave, which also published works such as The Place Promised Kakurembo and In Our Early Days.

The film was first shown at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival, then broadcast nationally on the Japanese television station Animax and appeared in Germany end of January 2008 on DVD. As a label to Anime House has secured the rights to the German publication, which released the film in a dubbed version. Earlier, the film was released in 2006 by Central Park Media in North America on DVD.

Action

In a fictional future Professor Narasaki is responsible for the construction of a giant mecha named Miroku. When his little daughter dies in an accident at the construction site, he withdrew from the project and refuses over the following ten years to once again participate in this or similar projects. His student Seiji is finally confronted with when he wants to inspire the professor of a terraforming project on Mars, which used by Narasaki with advanced technology.

The situation, however, changes radically when the terraforming experiments on Mars bring a monster to life, which then threatens the earth and covers with devastating attacks. It is now Narasakis Miroku, which represents the last hope of humanity.

Reception

The AnimaniA referred to in issue 01-02/2008 the first work as a ( quote) " Convincing debut work":

" It is simply amazing and impressive, what a single artist can bring cinematic in two and a half years on the legs. June Awazu has proved beyond doubt that it moves in the cinematic with metier sleepwalking. [ ... ] The short at first glance runtime of 25 minutes hands him completely to create a stylish as enthralling homage to the genre of monster movies. "

Furthermore, the author of the critique of the opinion that " clearly fall off the side characters ", what the level of detail compared to the photo-realistic character design by Professor Narasaki that " plays in the highest league ." The House of Anime commissioned synchronization, however, is the author End noticed negative:

"Unfortunately corresponds to the German synchro studio Wittmann and Endres in any way to the usual standard and is daunting in parts even amateurish. Besides Gerhard Pirske [ ... ] the other speakers seem unmotivated and weak. "

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