Does anyone know where I could find a copy?
>>1549487As in digital? Or physical?
>>1549488Preferably digital but if physical is the only option I’m not opposed to it
>>1549487Ayo this isnt Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer.
I can only find a picture book version of it, where they have some screenshots of the main scenes. In the comments, Japanese people are complaining that they can't find an affordable version of the animation to purchase.After some googling, this site claims to be selling it, from 30 to 60k yen.https://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~hyogocc/3film_gallery/01a/0105o/okorijizou/okorijizou.htmlThe options left are private trackers and libraries that might let you see it.This Shiga Prefecture library says it has it in their catalogue, and allows for up to 14 days of rental (shipping time included), as long as you are within Shiga Prefecture.https://www.nionet.jp/nionet/audio.php?mode=detail&adl_no=07585561&cal=-257I am not in Shiga Prefecture, otherwise I would help you.
That looks cute, OP.
>>1549558It's made by animators who worked on Rankin-Bass stuff, which is why it's similar to the Rudolph style.>>1549559Shit!I had heard that it was rare, but I didn't know it was "only available through Japanese mail-order site for $400 or through renting at a specific Japanese library" rare.Thank you for your help. This may be more of a /soc/ request, but is there anyone in Japan who would be willing to help get it and upload it? I'm really interested in watching it>>1549562It's about the bombing of Hiroshima
>>1549487interested. this looks neat
>>1549652>/soc/You might try the /int/ Japanese threads, but people over there are quite weird.You can also try Discord servers for language exchange, the AAA one has dozens of thousands of people and they might be able to communicate in English.Other than that, perhaps some Lost Media Reddit or some bullshit like that, if you can find something Japan-related even better.I have had trouble finding obscure anime in the past and there isn't really any good place for it, mostly if it doesn't show up as at least dead links in some old torrent site, then it doesn't exist.Good luck, man. Looks like a cute movie.
>>1549702>Looks like a cute movie.The middle circle of the cover, the girl with the frizzy pale hair, that's the school girl with the straight dark hair at bottom left. Her hair is frizzy and a different colour because that's what even dark hair looks like when burnt. Her skin is dirty and ashen because it's also burnt. The wood at the base of that circle is charred. The jizo's dark red scarf was a bright red hood, now also burnt. The world's first atomic bomb attack has razed the city of Hiroshima and mortally wounded that girl who dies in the film.Mass bombing of civilian populations was still regarded as legitimate military strategy 80 years ago. While Nagasaki and Hiroshima are immense tragedies and deserve to be remembered as the horrific and lamentable acts they are, the film pissed off a large portion of the Japanese public because it explicitly pointed out that Japan was fighting a war at the time, though I don't remember if it says a war of aggression. They didn't like that Japan was called out as not the entirely innocent victim of a completely unwarranted military attack. The visual style might be cute, but the film itself, its dialogue and narrative, they're a long way from cute.>>1549487An anon has told you that there's at least one copy held in a lending library. While that one aims at people and organisations within Shiga Prefecture interlibrary loans exist, sometimes even internationally. You might find a copy in another library even though you might have to pay admin and shipping fees.
>>1549740Sounds like a really neat study/inspiration for Grave Of The Fireflies. Shame this isn't so readily available, the idea of the Rudolph stop motion animators collabing with anime producers is really interestingI don't use /a/ because they're all angry and regressive, but maybe a LoSt MeDiA hunt will give them enough motivation to grease a few palms and get a copy?
>>1549750>>1549487Meant for OP
>>1549559I am in Japan but not for long, I leave December 18th, and am not staying in Kobe. I don't have the means at my disposal to rip DVDs and definitely not VHS tapes, so the library thing won't work. There were actually a few other libraries with copies, including Hiroshima Public Library, but that's only for screening in the library, you can't take it home and copy it. My best bet is buying the DVD and ripping it when I get home to the USA.I emailed your first source saying I'm willing to pay the 30,000 yen for it. Here are a couple unfortunate complications: they only accept payment through either cash in person or wire transfers. You need a Japanese bank for wire transfers, so cash in person is your safest bet if you're a gaijin tourist.They don't actually have a copy of the DVD on hand, they have to order it. I wrote back saying I'll leave it to their discretion: if the order will take a couple days, I am willing to travel to Kobe and pay cash for a DVD, which I will then rip. If it will take so long that I won't be in Japan by the time it gets here, then I'm not going to do that.I will update you all whenever they respond
>>1549740>Mass bombing of civilian populations was still regarded as legitimate military strategy 80 years ago. It's still a legitimate military strategy. News flash, war sucks.
>>1549740I don't care how dramatic it is, it still looks tastefully sad, not grotesque. Tugs on heartstrings instead of gutstrings.That famous anime scene with the children melting with the bomb is more on the non-cutesy side, albeit of course still done tastefully.>>1549804Are you OP?I like your motivation, if this thread survives your travel back and you post the rip, I will definitely watch it.>>1549823Agreed, I hate how people find war has to have morals. What the fuck is a "war crime"? If you are willing to kill to have things your way, then you are well past the point of moralfagging, just do whatever you want.Same with peaceful "protests", either accept the cuck treatment from politicians or start slicing some throats, holding a sign is not going to change anything. Maybe in the past, when the powerful still feared these protests would escalate into something else, but nowadays it is just a symbolic ritual of the impotent for the overlords' amusement.
>>1549823>It's still a legitimate military strategy.No it's not. According to the current big players there is a distinction between civilians and combatants. 196 parties including every member state of the UN, and even little non-member observer Palestine, have signed the Geneva Conventions. 175 have ratified Protocol I and 170 have ratified Protocol II. Attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure is illegitimate and has been internationally since at least 1949 which is after WWII--even if certain parties who have signed still routinely attack civilian targets. Attacking civilians is often an effective option that achieves the military objective but effective is not a synonym for legitimate.
>>1549804BE CAREFUL! I hear piracy in Japan actually caries jail time. I have a friend who was a JET and he didn't dare pirate anything
