Flag Director’s Edition: Issenman no Kufura no Kiroku

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Akagi, Keiichi (Main) - Voice Actors: Hägele, Jochen
• Shirasu, Saeko (Main) - Voice Actors: Diot, Marie
• Akbal, Hakan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sindberg, Susan
• Beroqui, Christian (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Montalto, Jean-Marco
• Chief (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Guillard, Jean-Bernard
• Eversalt, Chris (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Bienaimé, Nathalie
• Hacker (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Montalto, Jean-Marco
• Ichiyanagi, Shin (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Leblan, Jean-Pierre
• Informant (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Seugnet, Christophe
• Kufura (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sindberg, Susan
• Lisa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Bienaimé, Nathalie
• Mechanic (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Montalto, Jean-Marco
• Nikkanen, Jan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Bouali, Magid
• North, Graig (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Albaret, Jacques
• Olowakandi, Nadi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Coadour, Alexandre
• Su-ming, Rowell (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sindberg, Susan

Staff:

• Takahashi, Yuu (Producer)
• Momose, Keiichi (Sound Director)
• Nozaki, Tooru (Script, Series Composition)
• Kamei, Takashi (Storyboard)
• Oohata, Kouichi (Storyboard)
• Albaret, Jacques (ADR Director)
• Aono, Yuka (Key Animation)
• Arai, Tooru (Key Animation)
• Fujii, Nozomu (Key Animation)
• Ii, Osamu (Background Art)
• Kurakawa, Hideaki (Mechanical Design)
• Matsubara, Rie (Editing)
• Matsuda, Shinji (In-Between Animation)
• Okano, Shingo (Key Animation)
• Saitou, Naoko (In-Between Animation)
• Sakai, Tsuyoshi (Key Animation)
• Seyama, Takeshi (Editing)
• Shutou, Takeo (Key Animation)
• Suzuki, Shunsuke (Art Director)
• Suzuki, Kaori (In-Between Animation)
• Suzuki, Miho (Key Animation)
• Takahashi, Ryousuke (Original Creator)
• Takeuchi, Shigekazu (Planning)
• Takeuchi, Kazuyoshi (Chief Animation Director, Character Design)
• Tatenaka, Junpei (Animation Director, Key Animation)
• Tezuka, Kyouhei (Key Animation)
• Tokunaga, Motoyoshi (Executive Producer)
• Tsuzuku, Ryuuji (Key Animation)
• Ueda, Masuo (Executive Producer)
• Umebayashi, Yukari (In-Between Animation)
• Watanabe, Yuuji (Animation Director, Key Animation)
• Yachi, Hisako (In-Between Animation)
• Yoshida, Masayuki (Key Animation)

Reviews:

• User Jet_Suzuyaki (Score: 7/10):
  I really hesitated between 6 and 7. Because in itself, the film has a lot of slack in the middle and the characters aren't developed enough for certain scenes to work emotionally (this is probably due to the fact that I've seen the film and not the series). But what decided me was the idea the creators had of how to tell this story. This film is a found footage anime, and in this case they've completely embraced the idea from A to Z, so we have lots of different types of cameras through which we see the story: the narrator's and heroine's camera, the warmachines' camera, Saeko's PC webcam, etc.... And each of these devices will have a different image treatment, adapted to that device: the webcam offers a form of rotoscoping that lags a little, the devices have the interface we're familiar with, the cameras on the machines are in inverted color, and so on...nnSo, technically, the found-footage aspect is magnificently rendered, but it also serves the theme of the role of information and the highlighting of war and dramatic situations in reality. Indeed, if we're talking about the role of these devices in providing a view of these situations, it makes sense to tell the story through them, and that's smart. nnAnd they didn't go at it half-heartedly, because THE big narrative element of the film is only explained by a very, very clever staging technique that suggests the event through the staging without ever explicitly telling you what happened. I'll let you discover, but I think it's by far the best idea in the film.nnIn short, this is a truly original film, not in what it tells but rather in how it tells it, which just goes to show that it's not what you're going to tell and how original it is that's important, but the idea you come up with to tell it.

Forum Topics:

• Flag Director's Edition: Issenman no Kufura no Kiroku Episode 1 Discussion
• Availability sub?
• This got a movie?

External Links:

• Official Site
• AniDB
• ANN

Related Anime/Manga:

• Flag (anime - Full Story)