Preparing the Anime Revolution in a Pizza Shop

July 6, 2009 in Codex, First Squad
Tags: Alyosha Klimov, Anime Revolution, First Squad, Misha Shpritz, Munich, Pizza Shop, Russia, Young Pioneers

–>Video from Russia Today (3min10)

“We were mainly trying to get a kick out of what we were doing just on a personal level, and not really concentrate much on what possible audiences, wherever they may be, would think or feel. On the other hand, conceptually speaking we took the stereotypes of the Soviet era, reinterpreted them with the means of the visual language of contemporary Japanese animation. Along the way, any type of ideological messaging was entirely irrelevant to us,” Misha Shpritz told RT.

Misha and Alyosha say, they came up with the idea for “First Squad” about five years ago, sitting in a pizza parlor in Munich.

First Squad: The Moment of Truth”, Russia Today, Valeria Paikova, 06 July, 2009