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EARTH BOUND
By Andrew Osmond
The shortest way to describe Turn A Gundam is as the steampunk Gundam. It doesn’t start in a space war, nor on a futuristic Earth. Rather, the setting seems to be Earth of a bygone age, around the start of the twentieth century, with airships, period costumes, and vintage planes and cars. Soon invaders are attacking from the sky, and a boy and girl in a coming of age ritual see an ancient statue crumble before them, revealing a giant robot. Turn A Gundam feels like a deliberate return to the past, both in history and anime.
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Broadcast in 1999, Turn A Gundam marked the twentieth anniversary of the Gundam franchise. It also saw the return of the franchise’s father, Yoshiyuki Tomino, as director. Tomino had defined Gundam for its first decade, but worked only intermittently in the franchise through the 1990s (the best-known 1990s Gundam, Gundam Wing, was by other hands). With Turn, Tomino serves up a series that begins most unlike an average Gundam. If you’ve watched the dozenodd Gundams released by Anime Limited, you’ll find the start of Turn bracingly bewildering – “Is this really a Gundam show?” – though it becomes more Gundam-ish as it goes along.
Much of Turn is set on Earth, far more than most Gundams. The first scene, though, is an exception. Three kids descend to Earth in a spacecraft, chanting rhymes like “Mary had a little lamb” and “London bridge is falling down.” On landing, they each head in different directions. While they’ll all play roles in the story later on, we focus on one of the kids, a silver-haired boy called Loran. He travels to find work in a mine in a mountain region; on the way, though, he gets into trouble while bathing in a river and is saved by two well-to-do sisters. As it happens, they’re the daughters of the mine’s owner, who takes a liking to the boy and hires Loran as the family chauffeur.
Turn’s story skips forward fast. By the second part, Loran and one of the sisters, Sochie, are close enough so Sochie chooses him to partake in her coming of age ritual mentioned earlier. That’s when the sky invaders attack and the Gundam is revealed, though none of the Earth people know its name. For Gundam fans, there’s an easy way to distinguish the robot from other models – it has a whopping white metal “moustache,” which somehow manages to look distinguished rather than ridiculous. Credit that to its designer, the American Syd Mead – yes, that Syd Mead, who helped realise the world of Blade Runner.
Both Loran and the invaders come from the Moon, which is also inhabited by humans – a fact unknown to most Earthlings. When Loran was first sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission, he had no idea of the violence to follow, and he’s appalled by the sight of Moon craft destroying cities. Instinctively, Loran pilots the Gundam to protect his Earthling friends – who, of course, have no idea he’s not an Earthling. Nonetheless, the Earth’s defenders seem outmatched by the invaders’ technology… till it turns out there are other machines in the ground, ready to even the score.
Syd Mead and Tomino aren’t the only famous names on the show. Turn’s eclectic music is by Yoko Kanno – yes, that Yoko Kanno, in what seems to be her only contribution to the Gundam franchise to date. At the time, Kanno had distinguished herself on 1990s mecha anime: Escaflowne, Macross Plus and Tomino’s own Brain Powered. Her Turn score is uneven, with tracks sometimes feeling clumsily placed, but there are sublime parts – for example, a song at the end of the first episode, when Loran throws his arms out joyously toward the moon in the night sky, shouting his love for Earth. Loran is voiced in Japanese by another famous name; it’s Romi Park, before she’d voice Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist.
As we mentioned at the start, Turn can be classed as steampunk. Tomino may have arrived at the genre indirectly; way back in 1983, he’d directed a non-Gundam TV anime called Dunbine, unreleased in Britain. It featured giant robots, but unusually placed them in a medievalstyle fantasy world. Dunbine set precedents for the likes of Escaflowne, but it also showed that “robot war” anime could be transposed to other kinds of backdrop, not just spacewars and modern or future Earths.
Turn doesn’t qualify as steampunk under a strict definition – the setting isn’t the early twentieth century – but that’s how it feels. It doesn’t seem coincidental that one of the Moon people’s main fighting machines, a strutting giant called the Wodom, is reminiscent of the Martian Fighting Machines in H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. When the Wodom sends beams of fire against old-fashioned Earth cities, you could be watching a remake of Wells’ story. After all, Wells’ Martians were mecha pilots too – they just had more tentacles to operate the machinery.
The sight of old-style fighter planes in Turn will remind fans that the Gundam franchise’s most famed character, Char, was based on the Red Baron hero pilot of World War I. Turn has a beetle-goggled character with echoes of Char, though whether he qualifies as a true Char clone is debatable. A later key story development will feel very familiar if you’ve seen a more recent steampunk anime show, 2017’s Princess Principal.
It also seems deliberate that Turn looks remarkably, even shockingly, old-fashioned for its day. It was the last Gundam series to be made in cel animation, but that isn’t the half of it. Remember that Turn was made in 1999, several years after TV mecha titles like Gundam Wing and Escaflowne – both by the Sunrise studio – not to mention Evangelion. Compared against any of them, Turn’s whole look – its character designs, its earthy palette, its freehand animation – all feels like a purposeful throwback to 1970s anime.
That, of course, was when Gundam began, and it was also probably the key decade for Tomino professionally. He’d worked in anime since 1963’s Astro Boy, but the 1970s saw him emerge as a TV director, working towards a statement as distinctive as Gundam. Although Tomino is best-known for his signature SF, he made enormous contributions to a very different side of vintage anime – the “World Masterpiece Theatre” family series, where Tomino storyboarded large parts of Heidi, Rascal Racoon and Anne of Green Gables.
The first Turn episodes often feel like a pastiche of the WMT style, which continues to be seen even after the robot war starts. Many of Turn’s trappings – the deep mines, vintage flying machinery, and green countryside – will look overwhelmingly familiar to any Hayao Miyazaki fans who’ve seen his early work. Tomino sometimes worked with Miyazaki in the 1970s, when both men were developing their careers. In 2019, the Gundam creator said he’d longed to crush Miyazaki; yet Tomino also said he was only able to make Gundam because he’d met Miyazaki and Takahata. Turn seems to be echoed itself in a later Miyazaki-esque work. A pivotal character in the series, Sochie’s older sister Kihel, bears a striking resemblance to
the title girl Marnie in Ghibli’s late film When Marnie Was There. Kihel has a very complex role to play in Turn, as does Loran himself. The boy from the moon spends much time fighting moon people, taking advantage of his feminine appearance rather than wearing a mask. Loran is one of many turncoat characters in mecha anime, fighting against what are theoretically his own people. But what really makes Loran unusual in mecha anime that he’s not driven by anger, revenge or even romantic love, but rather by a reverence for life – all life – that’s deeply innocent.
Innocence, indeed, seems to be a particular concern for Tomino in Turn A Gundam. In the first couple of episodes, Loren spends much time naked, sometimes with girls his age who are equally nude. However, the youngsters are only faintly embarrassed at most. While many viewers will find these scenes funny, they’re
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mostly not played for laughs; rather the show suggests this is how youngsters with healthy minds should behave. It’s particularly interesting given Tomino’s more recent infamous comments on the blockbuster films by Makoto Shinkai. The tetchy Tomino described them as “films about a boy and girl who are always stretching out their hands towards each other… and yet the boy’s hand never reaches the girl’s crotch.”
Turn A Gundam is released in the UK by Anime Limited.
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FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Like everything else in the world, anime has had a very strange year. Weathering With You opened the year on the big screen, cut short by the closure of cinemas like most hospitality and entertainment businesses in an attempt to help curb COVID-19 back in March. Cinema has been impacted across the chain - if we’d been running as normal I’d be cap-inhand apologising for the fact the majority of our planned line-up moved out of Spring and Summer firmly into late Q4 or 2021.
Cinemas provide a place for people to hide away from the world and enjoy fictional wonders, so it’s been extremely difficult to be away from them. With the current world situation it would be not only irresponsible but pragmatically impossible to host a normal festival this year. It’s a dilemma both I and other festival directors have faced. Do we press pause for the year and go for it (hopefully) next year or do we try to do something?
There’s no wrong choice in these circumstances and whatever the decision, it hurts for everyone. Normally as I write this letter we’d be getting our teeth into the Edinburgh weekend of the festival. The whole team here feels that and misses not just the atmosphere inside the screens but outside of the festival too.
Regardless, we opted to do what we love the most and show you things we love a lot - just with a mix of online and offline content. You’ve got the UK premiere of Lupin III: The First and the Scottish premiere of On-Gaku: Our Sound on the big screen as well as a Work In Progress preview of films not out in Japan yet like Josee, the Tiger and the Fish - the first feature film from Kotaro Tamura (Noragami) - and Inu-Oh from the Golden Partridge award winner Masaaki Yuasa (Lu Over the Wall, Night is Short Walk on Girl, Mind Game etc)
You may not get quite the same experiences without long time festival friend and host Dr Jonathan Clements to introduce the films but fear not, we have a cunning plan. We lured Jonathan into a trap we like to call The Phantom Zoom where to pass the hours he’s prepared video introductions for the films both online and offline for you to enjoy. We even sat him down with a copy of Weathering With You and made him talk over the entire thing for our online component! And if you can’t make the in-person screenings, fear not - we’ll make every introduction available online.
We hope to be back as usual in 2021 - but in the meantime, wherever you are enjoying the festival from, please sit back and relax as you watch some anime films. Many thanks for your support this year too.
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LUPIN III: THE FIRST
DIRECTOR: Takashi Yamazaki MUSIC BY: Yuji Ohno ANIMATED BY: Marza Animation Planet
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ABERDEEN - Saturday 7th November 2020 [16:30] The iconic “gentleman thief” Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich. The gang undertakes trap-filled tombs, aerial escapades and daring prison escapes with the trademark wit and visual finesse that have made LUPIN THE 3RD one of the most storied animation franchises in the world, in a thrilling new caper that is sure to delight fans old and new.
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ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND DIRECTOR: Kenji Iwaisawa MUSIC BY: Tomohiko Banse ANIMATED BY: N/A
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ABERDEEN - Sunday 8th November 2020 [16:30]
When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend Shintaro Sakamoto, ON – GAKU: OUR SOUND brings its own sound and vision to the Hiroyuki Ohashi manga from which it was adapted. With pitch-perfect deadpan humor, the film presents a highly original take on the beloved slacker comedy: a lo-fi buddy film with a blaring musical finale that will leave you wanting an immediate encore.
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LUPIN III: THE SECRET OF MAMO
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Will love defeat an eternal evil? The world's most wanted master thief, Lupin the Third is dead! Despite a coroner's report, Interpol Inspector Zenigata is skeptical and discovers that Lupin is actually alive and well and stealing! But who had set up Lupin's death and why? For now, questions are set aside, as Lupin, Jigen and Goemon immediately embark to Egypt to pilfer a stone artifact from a pyramid, with Zenigata in hot pursuit. Fujiko, lured by the promise of eternal youth and beauty by the sinister and enigmatic scientist known as Mamo, doublecrosses Lupin and steals the stone. Her betrayal causes a rift between Lupin and his cohorts, causing the trio to split up, but eventually leads Lupin to Mamo's hideaway, where he discovers the madman's dark secret and a fiendish scheme that threatens the entire planet! Now, it's up to Lupin to stop the insane Mamo-before he can complete his 10,000 year-old plans of world domination.
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LUPIN III VS. DETECTIVE CONAN: THE MOVIE
DIRECTOR: Hajime Kamigaki MUSIC BY: Yuji Ohno ANIMATED BY: Telecom Animation Film
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This Lupin the 3rd and Detective Conan crossover film follows Conan Edogawa, who sets out to apprehend Lupin III after he is suspected of stealing a jewel called the Cherry Sapphire.
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DIRECTOR: Takeshi Koike LUPIN III: THE WOMAN CALLED FUJIKO MINE - JIGEN'S GRAVESTONE MUSIC BY: James Shimoji ANIMATED BY: Telecom Animation Film
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By bringing her voice to West Doroa, the East Doroan singer Queen Malta hoped that she could heal the rift between the two countries. Instead, her murder on stage by an unknown assassin only served to increase the tension between the two countries. Already a country known for its incredibly low crime rate, East Doroa increases security in preparation for war--but security is nothing to the likes of super-genius thief Lupin III!
Still, when he and partner Daisuke Jigen swipe the Little Comet gemstone from an embassy in East Doroa, it's a little convenient that the police seem to know their every move. And worse, before they can even make their getaway, the pair find themselves under the crosshairs of a certain hitman--the same one that killed Queen Malta! Something's fishy, and in order to confirm his suspicions, Jigen visits the cemetery. There, he finds himself staring at his own gravestone. It's a calling card of the sniper, Yael Okuzaki... and no one targeted by him has ever escaped the grave! But why is he only after Jigen, and not Lupin? And things only get more complicated with Fujiko around!
LUPIN III: THE WOMAN CALLED FUJIKO MINE - GOEMON'S BLOOD SPRAY DIRECTOR: Takeshi Koike MUSIC BY: James Shimoji ANIMATED BY: Telecom Animation Film
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A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship casino. Everything goes sideways however when a terrifyingly powerful man— the so called “Ghost of Bermuda”— shows up to put world-famous thief Lupin in the ground... right when Lupin’s trying to rob the very same ship! With his employer dead in the ensuing chaos, Goemon’s honor is at stake, and the only way to preserve it is with blood.
But this opponent is like no other, and to make things right, Goemon may need to sharpen not only his sword, but himself as well! With a little help from Lupin and Jigen, of course.
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A young boy called Gene holds the $500 million key that his father embezzled. The two are being targeted by the killer Bincam who attacked Gene's father, Randy. Once she escapes from Bincam who manipulates the heart of the human with the power of the curse, Fujiko and Gene get restrained. Bincam's sharp claws are ready to attack Fujiko!
DIRECTOR: Sayo Yamamoto MUSIC BY: Naruyoshi Kikuchi ANIMATED BY: Telecom Animation Film
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Who is Fujiko Mine? The world's greatest thief, Lupin the Third, has set his sights on the world's deadliest femme fatale, Fujiko Mine. After crossing paths on the same job, Lupin is enthralled with the mysterious beauty but such an attachment may come at a price. Elusive and manipulative, little is known about Fujiko as she holds her hand close to her chest. A thief? A killer? She's whatever you need her to be so she can get the job done. As Lupin and his crew fall deeper into the mystery will they learn the answer to the question that plagues their thoughts...
Original comic books created by Monkey Punch © TMS
LOVE LIVE! THE SCHOOL IDOL MOVIE
DIRECTOR: Takahiro Kyogoku MUSIC BY: Yoshiaki Fujisawa ANIMATED BY: Sunrise
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Although μ’s, the defending champions of the school idol tournament, plans to dissolve their group after the graduation of their senior members, they receive news that leads them to holding a concert event! The 9 girls continue to learn and grow in this new and unfamiliar world. What is the last thing that these girls can do as school idols? With the clock ticking, what kind of meaning will the μ’s members find in performing the most exciting live performance?
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LOVE LIVE! SUNSHINE!! THE SCHOOL IDOL MOVIE: OVER THE RAINBOW
DIRECTOR: Takahiro Kyogoku MUSIC BY: Yoshiaki Fujisawa ANIMATED BY: Sunrise
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Aqours reigned over them all in Love Live, the last one they would be representing Uranohoshi Girls’ High School in. Its first- and second-year students are now preparing for life at their new school – only to face a litany of unexpected trouble! Most alarming of all, the third-year students have set off on a graduation trip – only to go missing! As the group’s members drift apart, they quickly realize just how much they meant to each other. What will Aqours do to compel themselves to take that next step forward? The shine they’ve seeked is just ahead, in this inspiring live-entertainment movie dedicated to everyone taking flight toward a new future!
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DIRECTOR: Various PRODUCTION I.G SHORT FILM COLLECTION MUSIC BY: Various ANIMATED BY: Production I.G
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From Production I.G, the legendary animation studio behind Ghost in the Shell, comes a collection of five award-winning and rarely seen short films, directed by some of the best animators from Japan.
- Pigtails - A thought-provoking fable portraying a nation’s unspeakable feelings in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster. Based on the manga by Machiko Kyo
- Kick-Heart - A love story between a pro-wrestler and a nun, each one with a secret to hide.
- Li’l Spider Girl - A broken antiquarian meets with a scared, eight-legged baby arachnid slipped out from an ancient book.
- Drawer Hobs - Unfulfilled call centre operator Noeru has to deal with six weird kids who have occupied her tiny apartment.
- Oval x Over - Running against destiny was never this burning hot.
© 2015 Machiko Kyo/SHUEISHA, ITSV
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PATEMA INVERTED
DIRECTOR: Yasuhiro Yoshiura MUSIC BY: Michiru Oshima ANIMATED BY: Studio Rikka
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Patema has lived her whole life underground. Following a catastrophic attempt to harness alternative power sources, her community were driven to settle in a dark, cramped network of tunnels below ground. She roams them by torchlight, dreaming of adventures on the surface. Age does not fit in comfortably in school or society as a whole. The world he lives in is known as ‘Aiga’, controlled by the tyrant Izamura’s family for generations.
Together – the pair are about to be pulled into something much bigger that will turn their worlds upside-down!
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PENGUIN HIGHWAY
DIRECTOR: Hiroyasu Ishida MUSIC BY: Umitarou Abe ANIMATED BY: Studio Colorido
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Aoyama is a serious 10 year-old boy who records all of his day-to-day experiences in his notebook. One day in May, penguins inexplicably appear in his home town, despite being located a long way from the sea. When Aoyama sees “Big Sis” – a young woman who works at a dentist’s office – drop a soft drink can which inexplicably turns into a penguin, he decides to investigate and resolve the mystery behind these strange events.
Together with his classmates, Aoyama happens upon a strange phenomena which is surely the key to these goings-on. Will their investigation bear fruit, and just how is “Big Sis” linked to these occurrences?
© 2018 Tomihiko Morimi, KADOKAWA / Penguin Highway Production Committee
WEATHERING WITH YOU
DIRECTOR: Makoto Shinkai MUSIC BY: RADWIMPS ANIMATED BY: CoMix Wave Films
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The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine.
Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…
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DIRECTOR: Makoto Shinkai MUSIC BY: RADWIMPS ANIMATED BY: CoMix Wave Films
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Dr. Jonathan Clements takes you on a journey through the world of Weathering With You with this full, feature-length commentary (ahem, Clemmentary) track covering the entire film.
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WORK IN PROGRESS: JOSEE, THE TIGER AND THE FISH
DIRECTOR: Yasuhiro Yoshiura MUSIC BY: Michiru Oshima ANIMATED BY: Studio Rikka
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Join Dr. Jonathan Clements for this Work in Progress feature discussing Studio BONES' forthcoming film Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, as he talks about the film with studio president Masahiko Minami, director Kotaro Tamura and producer Mari Suzuki.
©2020 Seiko Tanabe / KADOKAWA / Josee Project
WORK IN PROGRESS: INU-OH
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An early look at the latest feature-length work from Science SARU, Inu-oh, featuring interviews with director Masaaki Yuasa and head of the studio Eunyoung Choi.
