War Photographer: the Cartoon

bjorke · Sep 9, 2006

SpeedGrapher

Though apparently set in the future, our hero Saiga shoots primarily with a Nikon F2 (w/105 f/2.5), sometimes a rangefinder & even an instamatic. Film (Kodak, no less) plays a prominent story role.

"I want to give my life, like Capa or Sawada!"*

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I've wached eight episodes so far, waiting for the next set.

* Capa is also the name of a Japanese photo mag, so it's well-known while Sawada was a J-PJ killed in Vietnam

Alicouscous · Sep 9, 2006

Doesn't work for me

bjorke · Sep 9, 2006

Alicouscous said:
Doesn't work for me

Care to say WHY?
(Because you like Efke?)

Andy K · Sep 9, 2006

All the information at a diagonal is too much hard work. The whole website layout is too clever for its own good. Where do we click to watch?

roteague · Sep 9, 2006

Looks more like an early F3 than an F2.

bjorke · Sep 10, 2006

It's an F2 in the series, shown clearly in the titles.

You don't click the website to watch. You click Blockbuster.com to watch, just like I did.

kb244 · Sep 11, 2006

Btw, its "Anime" not "cartoon", also it goes more than just being a photographer, the guy seems to transform into some sort of creature. He just happened to be a photographer starting out.

thebanana · Sep 11, 2006

the guy seems to transform into some sort of creature. He just happened to be a photographer starting out.

Same old story!

roteague · Sep 11, 2006

kb244 said:
Btw, its "Anime"

Fancy name for a Japanese cartoon.

mark · Sep 11, 2006

teenage/geek response

:rolleyes: Nuh-uh. Their different.

Yep their cartoons.

bjorke · Sep 11, 2006

He's a photographer all the way through the series. At the risk of dropping a spoiler, he gets his power from the film.

And, yeah, I know what anime is, having visited Ghibli and even had a short stints working with both Katsuhiro Otomo and Stan Lee (not together, alas). But I find no value in trying to draw such divisions. "Cartoon" works fine for me.

That goes for manga and bandes desinee too

anyte · Sep 12, 2006

kb244 said:
Btw, its "Anime" not "cartoon", also it goes more than just being a photographer, the guy seems to transform into some sort of creature. He just happened to be a photographer starting out.

Being that "anime" is a borrowed word I don't see that it matters whether someone call it "anime" or "cartoon".

siorai · Sep 18, 2006

bjorke said:
He's a photographer all the way through the series. At the risk of dropping a spoiler, he gets his power from the film.

And, yeah, I know what anime is, having visited Ghibli and even had a short stints working with both Katsuhiro Otomo and Stan Lee (not together, alas). But I find no value in trying to draw such divisions. "Cartoon" works fine for me.

That goes for manga and bandes desinee too

Well... Actually he doesn't. I won't go into where he gets his power from though since I wouldn't want to spoil it for you.

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Sep 19, 2006

Well I watched a few episodes myself, and so far each of these has some kind of hot scene, so I suppose the creators have learned their lesson from Blow-up: how could you make anything about photo without including sex? Or death? Or Kodachrome, for that matter, in episode 2, I think.

I'm curious to see where the plot line goes, so I'll be watching more.

Jerevan · Sep 19, 2006

Can't get the episodes to run in latest version of Firefox and Flash, but it looks pretty good. It has that old-timey Wired (that so passé 90s magazine...) feeling of "where the is the information I want". But I'll stick around, poke some of the anime-coloured levers and see where it gets me...

Jeremy · Sep 19, 2006

mhv said:
Well I watched a few episodes myself, and so far each of these has some kind of hot scene, so I suppose the creators have learned their lesson from Blow-up: how could you make anything about photo without including sex? Or death? Or Kodachrome, for that matter, in episode 2, I think.

I love how the kodachrome he shoots gets developed by the bad guys into black and white prints

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Sep 19, 2006

Jeremy Moore said:
I love how the kodachrome he shoots gets developed by the bad guys into black and white prints

Maybe they work for Rocky Mountain??

arigram · Sep 19, 2006

There is a torrent of the whole season, that weights at 4GBs.

It has all the elements of a good anime:
futurist society but with doses of classical japan, the perverted and the naive, sluts and schoolgirls, lethal supernatural powers and guns, weird stuff and complex plot, sex and violence and lots of blood.
I love it!

rjas · Sep 21, 2006

i can't ever watch any japanese cartoons again ever since that terrible incident when i walked in on my roomate pleasuring himself to that japanese cartoon alien / tentacle porn while wearing headphones.

kb244 · Sep 22, 2006

*on second episode*

very sexual series isnt it...

kb244 · Sep 22, 2006

rjas said:
i can't ever watch any japanese cartoons again ever since that terrible incident when i walked in on my roomate pleasuring himself to that japanese cartoon alien / tentacle porn while wearing headphones.

... La Blue Girl?

kb244 · Sep 22, 2006

Episode 3

heheh "Death by Photo" that was cool lol.

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Sep 24, 2006

Best line, episode 14: just as an electricity-monster is about to take control of him, the photographer reminds him that "pros don't use electrical cameras"....

bjorke · Sep 30, 2006

Here's a follow-on that I could have also posted in the "songs with photography in them" thread from a few weeks back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKWN40ugVZA

BTW, Speedgrapher was released in Japan with Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" as the theme song -- but it was too expensive to license for international release.

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Sep 30, 2006

I watched all the episodes. Have you? The ending is good, but as the series progresses, the photographer premise shifts to the background.

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