VALENCIAN TELEVISION DISMISSES 'DRAGON BALL' IN ANIME NEWS
The general director of À Punt explains that the high price of the drawings also makes their retransmission difficult In Anime News.
The Japanese cartoons Bola de drac ( Dragon Ball , in Spanish; Dragon Ball , in English) reaped a great reception in the early nineties on Valencian regional television, then called Channel 9. It was not the only one. The manga conceived by Akira Toriyama and starring Goku, a protective warrior of Earth, was an international success with continuity in subsequent installments. But in Valencia, in addition, a sociolinguistic factor was added. When dubbed into Valencian, it became a very effective anime news instrument in the normalization of the native language through the public media. A whole generation grew up watching the drawings and keeps fond memories.
So much so that about 15 years ago a fan club, Bola del Drac , was formed in Valencia , made up of more than 10,000 people so that the series would return to the screen. There are nostalgic viewers even in provinces bordering the Valencian Community, such as Albacete and Murcia, where Valencian is not spoken but the series could be seen.
Recently, the regional deputy of Compromís, Mònica Àlvaro, asked in Parliament about the possibility of replacing the series. And last Tuesday, Alfred Costa, general director of À Punt, the new chain heir to the defunct Channel 9, replied: Valencian companies that generate work — right now we have a hard time being able to program it ”.
The response has brought back to the present the series that already received criticism for its anime news violence at the time. Now, in addition, there is an impact on sexism in the treatment of female characters, such as Bulma or Chi-chi, who play discriminatory and stereotyped roles, violating the norm and the network's program contract, which has roused many of its followers.
Sources from the governing council of À Punt point out that the current code of values is much more restrictive, especially in children, and that social responsibility is taken into account as a public medium. They recall that À Punt was the first channel in Spain to not admit advertising for betting and games and they point out that they studied the possibility of programming the series in adult hours but rejected it due to its high cost.
THE DRAWING SNATCHED
Makoto Shinkai once again uses a supernatural story to intuit the existence of two parallel dimensions anime news
The international success and the subsequent premiere in Spanish cinemas of Your Name allowed, two years ago, that the visual and narrative poetry of the Japanese Makoto Shinkai, until then reduced to the circle of anime specialists , finally crossed the barrier of general ignorance in our country. Endowed with an exacerbated lyricism and hallmarks based on the perfectionism of drawing, the romantic outburst and the fundamental influence on his stories of space and time, exposed at the same time as obstacles and as safe-conducts for passion, the director and Japanese writer is hardly matched in his backsliding style. Some forms and background peculiarities in which he abounds in his latest work, Time with you, precious melodrama of irrepressible musical force and unusual magic.
The weather reflects the mood of the skies." This is the phrase that could summarize the film and the one that also serves as a paradigm of Shinkai's personality: without fear of approaching the sublime but always one step away from kitsch, and with the ability to escape from it thanks to the extreme conjunction of the tone of his stories and the line of his drawings. As in Your Name, although perhaps a small step below in terms of quality, the director of The Place We Promise (2004) and Five Centimeters Per Second (2007) once again uses a supernatural story to intuit the existence two-dimensional in parallel. And with a protagonist who escapes any naturalism: the girl who makes the sun shine.
In Time with You, starring two teenagers and aimed mainly at them (but not only), the everyday life of a boy who leaves his town to try to integrate into the jungle of a Tokyo near the apocalyptic merges, and the spell of a mysterious young woman with powers to manipulate the weather. Thus, labor and social problems join the usual divine spirit of Shinkai, and each shot ends up reflecting well his courage for intensity, especially with that extraordinary treatment of light in the drawing, also complicated by the usual presence of rain. .
Shinkai knows how to be both close and heavenly and, again with the tonal help of the songs of the Japanese rock group Radwimps, as in Your Name, offer musical interludes in their melodramatic nuances with songs that end up forming a very special anime news youthful ecstasy.