Everything has to start again ... Original title: Mirai Shonen Conan
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki, Keiji Hayakawa, Isao Takahata
Animation: Hayao Miyazaki, Yasuo Otsuka
Year: 1978
Production: Japan
Length: 26 episodes of 25 min.
Genre: Science Fiction
If the calculations are correct, there are less than one year - then in 2008 - should be the end of the world . At least as we know it today. Everything will be caused by a third world war fought based on magnetic bombs (much more powerful and destructive than nuclear!) That will destroy the earth's surface in a few hours ... even the axis of rotation of our planet and the continents will move fractures sinking in the oceans.
Only a few people manage to escape and remain isolated in the few areas that emerged ... will have to start from scratch, but, as ever, ' obstinacy of the human race will have the upper hand and somehow manage to keep going.
In a nutshell this is the scenario in which it moves Conan (not the barbarian course), a child of eleven born after the catastrophe on an island (called the 'Island of Dr. Moreau ) where a group of astronauts rushed in an attempt to escape out of the range taerrestre. We are in 2028
Conan and lives with his grandfather, the only survivors of the astronauts,
leading a simple life and intimately connected to nature, believing that no other human being on Earth. The discovery of the small island on the beach, a girl unconscious, upset the life of Conan ...
Lana, this is the name of the girl, reveals that many other people have survived the disaster, and in his island Hyarbor people live in peace and harmony, even if it is threatened by the aggressive company Indastria , praticamante the only city-state based on the technology still remained on Earth.
Conan will know soon the evil intentions of this mysterious Indastria since an aircraft will come from there own party lost on the island, kills his grandfather and Lana snatch, kicking off an adventure in 26 episodes long (almost 11 hours) .
When Conan first appeared on Italian television screens - even though I was still a rookie (like all those of my generation) - we realized to be before something slightly different from the usual robottoni to Go Nagai (please, do not spit into the pot in which I have never eaten so many years, but Ufo Robot, Mazinga & Co. does not have the thickness of a fingernail that can claim the cartoon Miyazaki).
The high artistic and technical quality of this animated series
surprising when you consider that in those years television (especially the entertainment for children) was in its infancy and it is no coincidence that, although both Conan been (thankfully) a mini-series prequel or not followed, in contrast to the popular anime , has a large number of admirers, not only among the nostalgic thirty-thirty-five who looked to be infants, but also among today's teens, savvy and accustomed to other wonders of technology, than their peers at the end of the seventies. The environments away from traditional norms (many references to landscape and architecture of the forties, that is clearly related to World War II and the atomic disatro which the victim was Japan) and environmental issues (easy dist
Language The dichotomy of good and evil, represented by the first farmers and nature, while the second, by industry and motor vehicles), making it one of the most interesting animation products the entire Japanese production and at the time revealed the skill and sensitivity of an author such as Hayao Miyazaki, is intended eventually to be recognized as the greatest Japanese filmmaker - I love this term that today is used almost - " cartoons animated. " Personally, to review a few episodes after more than twenty years, I noticed how much nostalgia for the past is the main theme of the whole story, even in its simplicity, can take the viewer to reflect.
not through the usual gooders that toghether many productions today, but something deeper and more rare.
a jewel to be discovered.
David Battle
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