>Q: What book or film to you has the most impressive world building?>Ted Chiang: There’s this Japanese anime film from the late ’80s called “Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise.” It’s the story sort of a space program in this country which is not Japan. It’s not in our world. But it’s a country that is at a somewhat mid-20th century level of technological development. And they are trying to get into space. And I just loved all the details of sort of the physical culture of this imagined nation. The coins are not flat metal disks, they’re metal rods. And the televisions, they’re not rectangles. Their cathode ray tubes are completely circular, so they’re watching TV on circular screens.>All these little details, just the way their newspapers fold, I just really was impressed by the way that the animators for that film, they invented an entirely new physical culture for this movie. The movie is not about those things, but they really fleshed out this alternate world just as the backdrop for the story that they wanted to tell.
Circular TV screens aren't exclusive to that anime. Pretty sure I've seen them in other movies/shows.
Japanese thing ;D
>>217791484Go back to /a/
>>217791538This but unironically. Stupid gaijin.
source of the interview!?
>>217791538>Japanese thing ;D>It’s the story sort of a space program in this country which is not JapanYou look like a fool.
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>>217791880Maybe it's the art style, but I figured the country was NOT-Japan in an alt-universe where WW1 and WW2 didn't happen and tech went another way. Japan is left alone, but they don't go imperialistic either and there is this under-funded space program around the 1950s.
>>217791484>Ted ChiangOpinion discarded.
same studio that did Tengen Toppa btw
>>217792093>20 year gapI doubt they had much overlap in staff. Might as well be by different studios.
>it's another japanese cartoon can't be kinoNo one cares
>>217791484this movie is awesome, too bad normalfags only care about the not rape scene>>217791527retard
>>217792501at least this time it’s an actual kino and not zoomer slop of the month
>>217791484For me, it's Iria. Loved all the worldbuilding and design that series, the strange mushroom-shaped towers and hazard sirens when the snow starts falling, the ubiquitous spiritual charms and bangles/talismans everywhere, personal spacecraft made from wood and natural materials reinforced with forcefields, lots of exotic southeast asian influences.. so great.
>>217791484>>217793053Thanks for the recs
not sure if "world building" but I rewatched Labyrinth yesterday and the attention to detail is fantastic. you don't get that in modern outsourced CGI slop.
