Racing Beauty and the Handsome Prince

By: Charz

Aug 20 2011

Tags: 2000 AD, Audacity, Boiboi, Bosbos, Cars, Colonel Volton, Cool, FLCL, Gadgets, Girls, Heavy Metal, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Initial D, JP, Katsuhiro Otomo, Katsuhito Ishii, Leiji Matsumoto, Love Story, Madhouse, Moebius, Race queen, Racing, Redline, Roboworld, Romance, Sonoshee McLaren, Styling, Superboins, Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Koike, Takuya Kimura, Trans-Am System, Trava, Tuning, Yū Aoi

Category: Leiji Matsumoto, Manly, Mode, Redline

3 Comments

Sonoshee ♥ Sweet JP

Produced by Mad House Studios, the directorial debut feature of Takeshi Koike and recently released in 2010 after spending half a decade in development, REDLINE is a racer movie unlike anything seen before and potentially one of the most daring and important anime movies of the decade. Visually, it’s easy to see that Koike is a huge fan of western graphic art, and has been influenced as much by French comic artist Jean “Moebius” Giraud, the US animated film Heavy Metal, cult UK sci-fi comic 2000 AD, and even the Star Wars movies as much as he has by the likes of Katsuhiro Otomo, Hiroyuki Imaishi or Leiji Matsumoto. Not that REDLINE feels or looks like a mash-up of different styles – somewhere in the visual chaos it unrelentingly throws at its audience it becomes something that is far more than the mere sum of parts, a unique piece of animation that at times doesn’t even feel like anime in the traditional sense.

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3 comments on “Racing Beauty and the Handsome Prince”

20 Aug 2011 at 10:34 pm Wojtek Krzykawski

Really, a masterpiece,
28 Aug 2011 at 3:05 am Atobe

Hmm, that film does seem good. Now that it is posted online I, Atobe, may just check it out.

By the way, have you seen the hilarious, if a bit embarrassing, spoof my Hyotei underlings and I made on the Lucky Star opening?
2 Sep 2011 at 7:56 pm Atobe

Ah! I, Atobe, have seen it. Pretty, very pretty, but such a weak undriven plot. A Good film , worth seeing, but I wonder if maybe they could’ve put seven years of work into something meaningful instead.

NeoShinka