New Yona Yona Penguin Trailer Released
The homepage for director Rintaro’s latest feature film, Yona Yona Penguin, now features a new streaming Flash trailer. The movie about a young girl transported to a world inhabited by goblins that believe their saviour will be a penguin had its world premiere screening at the Sitges Film Festival last month. The movie will premiere in Japanese wide release on December 23.
I don’t want to form conclusions based on two minutes of footage, but I can’t avoid thinking that this trailer is visually dynamic, but feels a bit lifeless. Rintaro is capable of helming very engaging anime like Galaxy Express 999, Download, Take the X Train, and Manie Manie. But he also sometimes turns out bland stuff like Teito Monogatari and Metropolis.
Source: Anime News Network
November 12th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Um, Metropolis was good, especially when you compare it to the manga, which comes off average. But the film had an awesome mix of contemporary and retro, which I don’t feel any anime since then has been able to accomplish. [Maybe Hajime No Ippo, but then they just seem to hide that the manga takes place in the late 80s, early 90s.] But I have yet to finish Doomed Megalopolis, even though I just got the SE, but I did like what I saw of the animation, back in the Streamline days. So no comment there.