Manga – anime –games – live action
Manga – anime –games – live action
These musicals bring influences from manga, anime and video games to the live stage, and are currently extremely popular with Japanese youth (2.5D refers to the mid point between the 2-dimensional world like anime and 3D real life). One of the best known is “Naruto,” based on the best-selling manga about ninja. Special effects make the actors’ ninja techniques seem ultra-real, bringing the world of the manga to life on stage. This new form of Japanese entertainment is now winning fans around the world.
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These musicals bring influences from manga, anime and video games to the live stage, and are currently extremely popular with Japanese youth (2.5D refers to the mid point between the 2-dimensional world like anime and 3D real life). One of the best known is “Naruto,” based on the best-selling manga about ninja. Special effects make the actors’ ninja techniques seem ultra-real, bringing the world of the manga to life on stage. This new form of Japanese entertainment is now winning fans around the world.
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Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:09 [Music]
00:14 It's a craze that just keeps on getting bigger among Japanese youth.
00:18 The 2.5D musical.
00:21 2D or two-dimensional refers to manga, anime, and video games.
00:28 Combining 2D themes and technology with live action stage performances
00:32 has brought us a new form of entertainment.
00:34 2.5D.
00:36 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is known and loved all over the world.
00:44 When the actors transform on stage into their guardian forms,
00:48 it's as if they've jumped straight from the pages of the original manga.
00:56 In The Prince of Tennis.
00:58 When the teen idols play the game on stage,
01:03 it's made super realistic by 2.5D effects.
01:07 Touken Ranbu Online is a very popular computer game.
01:22 The musical captivates audiences with its recreation of historical events,
01:27 using songs and dances as well as scenes of combat.
01:30 Of all 2.5D musicals,
01:39 none has been so popular as the series based on the manga Naruto.
01:43 With over 2.5 billion copies sold worldwide,
01:53 these stories of ninja warriors focus on the bonds of friendship
01:56 they develop during their adventures.
01:58 Special effects in live and action sequences featuring the fabled ninja arts.
02:09 This musical is directed by Kodama Akiko.
02:14 I think the big attraction of 2.5D musicals is their visual impact.
02:19 Even little children love the action.
02:22 And you don't have to understand Japanese to enjoy the fun.
02:26 Video effects bring the fantastical world of Naruto to life.
02:32 The hero casts a spell producing hundreds of clones behind him on stage.
02:48 As well as all the training and rehearsal required for these intense non-stop scenes,
02:53 the actors must learn to move exactly in sync with the projected video.
02:57 We use these video effects to support and complement
03:08 what the actors are doing on stage.
03:11 We're trying to make the audience's experience as close as possible
03:15 to what they imagined when reading the manga.
03:17 [Japanese]
03:20 These musicals bring all the excitement of the original works to the stage.
03:24 The director's creativity and the skill of the actors work together perfectly
03:33 to draw audiences deep into the world of Naruto.
03:36 [Japanese]
03:40 They brought the manga to life just as I imagined it.
03:46 With the addition of all the special effects and all the interaction with the other actors,
03:52 it was really great.
03:54 Overseas performances of 2.5D musicals are generating great enthusiasm.
04:00 A new form of entertainment from Japan,
04:06 the 2.5D musical looks set to follow manga, anime and video games
04:13 and win fans worldwide.
04:17 [Japanese]
04:20 [Music]
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