View Full Version : Licensed Cencoroll (Sci-Fi + School Life)
jcdranzer
2007-08-08, 08:01
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2105/cencoroll1xb2.jpg
Title: Cencoroll
Premier: 2007
Production: Anime Innovation Tokyo, LLP
Animation: Atsuya Uki
Official Website: http://anime-innovation.jp/sys/works.php?itemid=7
I thought it was a movie at first but it seems it could be an OVA as well....the reason for this is that I checked AniDB and they've put it as an OVA....not too sure. ;)
Plot:
A sudden advent of an enigmatic creature pushes the world and our young heroine, Yuki, into the realm of surreal.
(~taken from AniDB~)
Cencoroll Trailer: - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GtU3xwLBQ
This how this movie came coming about: -
“For talented animation creators who want an opportunity to create and distribute an ”original work,” ”ANIME INNOVATION TOKYO” offers funds and equipments. Producers belonging to ”ANIME INNOVATION TOKYO” take care and advise selected creators to make pilot films. Production span is about six months to a year. Basically, the pilot films should be based on ”original plans” from the creators. Any form of animation is possible. We will accept any animation style if we feel that it brings out the best of the creator’s style, and we can offer equipments within each individual project budget. By the spring of 2008, we will select 20 creators, and team up with them to establish joint-venture groups (JV) with LLP, ”ANIME INNOVATION TOKYO” etc., to make pilot films together.”
(~taken from Anime Innovation Tokyo main site~)
Cencoroll is the first one to be selected. A trailer has been released, which I've put a link to above. Apparently, the first episode or the movie has been released at the moment. ;)
The trailer looks really good (btw...I like the BGM in this trailer!! XDDD)....its giving me some FLCL and Bokurano vibes. The guy going in the big fleshy thingy reminds me of Reideen in a way. :rolleyes: It looks really interesting!!!! XDDDD :lol: The fleshy thing also reminded me of the last scenes of Akira. :rolleyes: I'm getting chills that this might be a Mind F*ck!!!:heh:
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9668/listcencorollza2.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8581/cencoroll2du8.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/488/cencorollqz6.th.jpg (http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cencorollqz6.jpg)
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The trailer is truly amazing. Atsuya Uki's a real talent to watch.
However it's shame there has been no new information or material since the first (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=802271&postcount=1202) time it came to light. It's still in development hell it seems...
White Manju Bun
2007-08-08, 16:38
Wow the trailer was very good and yes the music is awesome. I gotta a weird Akira vibe from that for some reason. Well hopefully this will get out of "development hell" and get off the ground, it looks very promising.
Monkey D. Luffy
2007-08-08, 16:56
I get a great feeling from this and the trailer, it might be longer since we hear more from it but I look forward to seeing how it turns out. :)
Marina Ismail
2007-08-10, 12:23
I'm looking forward to seeing this series as well, I did get a Bokurano and FLCL feel when I watched it haha. Eww.... the fleshy parts xD
JanthraX^
2008-10-01, 15:34
ooo a Mini,
music is awesome
sapphire-pyro
2008-10-01, 23:47
I am sooooo looking forward to this xD It looks really awesome *_*
Is the project still going?
modmadmike
2008-10-09, 22:04
Looks interesting....
Marina Ismail
2008-10-11, 09:14
I guess it's never going to come out... was a troll I tells you!
The thing is "ANIME INNOVATION TOKYO" helped produce the pilot film but untill some sponsors show up, the project will not expand to it's final form movie or tv series, i don't know what the director as in mind. I sure hope someone will be interested in this project one of the best looking on AIT line up.
physics223
2009-02-10, 22:15
The thing is "ANIME INNOVATION TOKYO" helped produce the pilot film but untill some sponsors show up, the project will not expand to it's final form movie or tv series, i don't know what the director as in mind. I sure hope someone will be interested in this project one of the best looking on AIT line up.
When you pertain to the pilot film, do you mean the trailer? Because I think it's very possible to write an OVA even with a budget that's not too large. It's only one episode, after all.
After almost two years of waiting, I'd like to see this one come out.
So, finally it seems that Uki managed to find a sponsor.
Here's the site of the project: http://www.cencoroll.com/
It is reported as a film. Source: ANN forum.
Haohmaru
2009-03-20, 18:23
TAF trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzxaSSqGWQ&feature=channel_page
SneakerPimp
2009-03-20, 19:50
Finally some new footage!
Proudleaf
2009-03-21, 01:17
TAF trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzxaSSqGWQ&feature=channel_page
Looks just as awesome as the original trailer. I'm really, really looking forward to this one. :D
Opened this thread at random.... ok, I REALLY REALLY like the art and animation the trailers implied. I'm definitely onboard...
sapphire-pyro
2009-03-21, 03:03
Oh I love the new footage <3
Any news on when the hell it's gonna air already? I'm so excited *_*
A movie to keep my eyes on. I am sold.
I'm seeing so many great anime coming out. Yeesh I can hopefully wash the taste of dragonball evolution out of my mouth.
Wow, I really love the color pallet of the show. Animation was nice too. The trailer was very interesting too.
I'm interested.
Proudleaf
2009-03-25, 23:57
In case anyone is interested, here is Atsuya Uki's official website (http://www.ukix.org).
Also, there's a lot of great artwork available here on the site (http://www.ukix.org/nl/archives.html).
Enjoy. :)
wonder when would it be released
the trailer looks great
Proudleaf
2009-04-10, 23:54
wonder when would it be released
the trailer looks great
The trailer from TAF 2009 has been posted on the official site (http://www.cencoroll.com/movie2.html).
I'm still finding it hard to believe that this was entirely animated by Atsuya Uki himself; the quality is just too good.
Gonna keep an eye on this.
...mostly because the music is by ryo (famous VOCALOID producer) so lad;kf;lakdf !!!!
Visuals look absolutely stunning the animation crisp and nice background score to compliment it . The plot looks interesting and simple. One of the major problems with sci-fi is confusing vexing plot which makes that vein in your head pop BUT luckily this one looks relatively simple .
Somewhat reminded of Girl who leapt through Time w.r.p to character design and art : ) Definite must watch
sapphire-pyro
2009-07-10, 10:27
anyone else heard about the news of it showing August (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-09/cencoroll-film-ad-streamed-for-august-22-opening)? Also, is the new trailer (http://www.cencoroll.com/movie3.html)? streaming's being so slow from the official site for me x_x
Proudleaf
2009-07-13, 22:59
anyone else heard about the news of it showing August (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-09/cencoroll-film-ad-streamed-for-august-22-opening)? Also, is the new trailer (http://www.cencoroll.com/movie3.html)? streaming's being so slow from the official site for me x_x
The new trailer doesn't show anything new aside from one or two small scenes. But, it's still great to see of course.
In addition to the trailer, the website (http://www.cencoroll.com/) is showing a lot of new artwork and information. There's also a release date for the upcoming CD by supercell.
prnoct90
2009-08-31, 04:19
did anyone see this, it came out 9 days ago.
did anyone see this, it came out 9 days ago.
Wanted to know the same thing, hasn't been a word on any of the boards ive been looking at.:(
musume_no_hoshi
2009-09-03, 06:19
It definately look really good. I'm interested what ryo/supercell did with the music, almost all of his songs had vocals (that is if you count Hatsune Miku as vocals).
I didn't know the B-side on Kimi no Shira nai Monogatari single was the theme song of this. I really liked LOVE & ROLL, it's one of those really surprisingly good B-sides (lets say most people don't bother with a good b-side).
When is the OST out?
Also was the final run-time only 30 minutes?
Just got back from NYAF, managed to see this. Sadly my eyesight sucks at night. :( Oh well.
The animation was pretty good but I kinda feel it could have used some directorial work. Some scenes were sorta like, "Okay... where's this going now?" I liked the story and concept though. I want a Cenco as a pet. :D
They turned off the audio halfway through the end credits though. Pity. Wanted to hear Love & Roll...
Also maybe I just zoned out but I swear there was a really cool scene in the trailer that didn't show up in the actual thing. The part with Cenco turning into an airplane...
weird story. Did the guy in the trailer change into the wings of that monster? Still, the trailer looks interesting.
musume_no_hoshi
2009-10-30, 06:47
I enjoyed it. It was pretty odd...weird and a little too short. I can't explain why I enjoyed it. It's very refreshing.
I agree with ANN. Where's the 2nd episode? I hope some studio picks it up, but I highly doubt it.
Was pretty decent. Especially worth watching just for the backgrounds and animation. What we got in terms of story was right up my street, and i like how it keeps what you want to know covered up, and just delivers what you see. Nicely done.
The subs seem to be out, although it might be someone trolling. Downloading, will see. :heh:
And LOVE & ROLL is a wonderful song. I love Nagi/Gazelle/whatever's voice.
Awesome.
And Cenco is insanely cute. You heard that right. I get this urge to pet him.
It's the eyes I think.
Haruyasha
2009-10-30, 17:07
Movie is quite different from the original trailer.. I would love to see the original content too, though.
roriconfan
2009-10-30, 18:50
My opinion
This short 25 minute feature feels more like an artistic summary of an average children’s adventure series than an actual full story. You probably know that many series get their own movie version a few years after they ended (like X-tv or Escaflowne). Well, Cencoroll is actually just the movie. The series feels like it was scrapped. Because in only 25 minutes you see things that a normal series would spend 12 episodes depicting. So, the plot is not just fast but is also feels like it is skipping a lot of events. It is after all part of a project to aid upcoming new artists and not some major funded mainstream anime aiming to sell like crazy.
Visually, Cencoroll is very pleasing. Everything feels like it was painted with watercolors and oil paints and even the outlines of the characters are not clear outlines. This gave to the feature an artistic feeling most suit for fluid animation. The setting of the story is a generic Japanese city and a typical school yet the colors made them feel special. Plus, half of the duration is battles between transforming critters. The action is very well done with lots of vitality and attention given to physics. Also, the monsters have a plethora of attacks that are not just laser beams that blow things up (a cheap way to show big explosions without actually animating anything) but grabbing and throwing objects, jumping, transforming and running. The same thing can be said about the characters, who although don’t do anything extreme still have a very pleasing body language most titles sacrifice in order to save money by making still images.
Acoustically, Cencoroll remains at the basics. There is almost no background music heard in the entire duration with an average pop song during the ending titles reminding you what you were not listening to all this time. I feel like the producers decided to leave out the music just to make the viewers focus solely on the characters and their talking. It is a neat trick but it takes more than that. The dialogues and the story were never anything special so the absence of music does help you to sympathize with the characters more while at the same time making you feel bored in case you want atmosphere. Beyond that, the voice acting was decent although as I said, the context of the dialogues was pretty standard stuff you see in stories with teenagers pairing with monsters, so it still feels blunt.
In the same manner, the story in Cencoroll is a fast forward summary of an average children-paired-with-monsters story. If you have seen Pokemon or Narutaru you know what to expect. Two kids control monsters and decide to have a showdown. How they found them or why they fight is almost not mentioned so all you are left to see is them fighting before the feature ends in an almost tie. Yes, it is an open ending, leaving room for a sequel. What must be made clear is that there are no other people present besides the main characters. The city feels empty even when the army stars bombarding the area. There are no bystanders running around in panic amongst all the destruction the monsters do. Well, there is one who just closes the window so big deal. Just like the music, the world in the feature seems to be given no attention so that the viewers will focus solely on the characters.
Speaking of characters, the cast in Cencoroll is pleasing to watch albeit generic. It is very interesting to see them moving and talking to each other with the lack of music or even a background story not distracting you from what they are doing. Still, their motivation is very blunt as is the reason they fight or acting so cynical all the time. This feature is so esoteric, you are supposed to do nothing other than looking at their mentality but not at their reasoning for being as such. The whole deal is basically four people, two males controlling and fighting, one female that keeps interfering for no given reason and her schoolmate female friend who is essentially not doing anything. So I say this feature wins in terms of portraying its cast in a wonderful way but does a messy job at actually explaining why they act the way they act. Maybe it is a pilot to a future series, maybe it didn’t matter for the producers. No matter the reason, the cast is nothing more than pleasing archetypes.
In all, Cencoroll is pleasing to watch but quite a bother to actually rewatch. It is so short and simple that you have little to gain by watching it again. Still, the first time will most likely please you to the most part with its artistic depiction and esoteric approach to its characters.
The subs seem to be out, although it might be someone trolling. Downloading, will see. :heh:
And LOVE & ROLL is a wonderful song. I love Nagi/Gazelle/whatever's voice.
You mean supercell? I love this song too, it's not like the song of supercell sucks (check Bakemonogatari's op/ed) nyaa ~ kimi no shiranai monogatari *_*
Thats it.... ???
MOAR !!
I want MOAR !!!
Guardian Enzo
2009-10-31, 00:55
That was rather interesting. I actually found it insanely hilarious at times, believe it or not. What totally made it work for me was the completely deadpan behavior of the characters and the minimalist use of camera movement and BGM. The whole thing is utter absurdity presented in a completely matter-of-fact way, with no effort whatsoever to explain any of it. That dichotomy worked for me.
Xapheron
2009-10-31, 00:56
Hmmm, it was pretty good, but I think the first trailer seemed so much better. It was weird that the first trailer had footage not in the movie. Too bad it was too short, add in 30-45min more of character backstory/explanation and action scenes and it would have been much more awesome.
Haruyasha
2009-10-31, 01:46
Hmmm, it was pretty good, but I think the first trailer seemed so much better. It was weird that the first trailer had footage not in the movie. Too bad it was too short, add in 30-45min more of character backstory/explanation and action scenes and it would have been much more awesome.
A majority of the footage was not in the movie. :)
LusterFlare
2009-10-31, 02:40
Mmm, that was good. Yuki for home run!
SuperKnuckles
2009-10-31, 06:01
Man, I sorta am not liking this effort simply because it's a single shot deal. Pretty cool, but it feels like watching great animated shorts in the movies. TOO SHORT!
Seeing military tanks shoot at a giant cup of pudding and bomb a giant walnut just pushed all the right buttons with me like that rest of the movie XD. I like it.
Xapheron
2009-10-31, 10:45
A majority of the footage was not in the movie. :)
Yeah, wished it was. Tetsu and Cenco had real badass potential. Having Tetsu lose his badass status so quick in the movie was a bit of bummer but the giant pudding and chibi Cenco were worth it.
This was rather interesting, but all I can say is '' wtf ''.
I have no idea what the movie was about, or what was happening. Yet I still liked it lol.. I wish this was a series or something as it could work out ..
SuperKnuckles
2009-10-31, 18:37
This was rather interesting, but all I can say is '' wtf ''.
I have no idea what the movie was about, or what was happening. Yet I still liked it lol.. I wish this was a series or something as it could work out ..
Yeah. Precisely why I don't like it when they're one-shots. It seems almost all short anime suffer from lack of proper exposition and they go for the zaniness or just mind numbing visuals. Not that it's all that bad for it.
Wow, that was great... but where's the rest of it?
I have no idea what the movie was about, or what was happening. Yet I still liked it lol.. I wish this was a series or something as it could work out ..
Personally, that was the beauty of it. We didn't need to know the whole story, you just enjoyed the 30 minute experience. We don't need to know anymore, just focus on what's going on. That's what i did, and i fully enjoyed the hell out of it.
Dammit, I want more! *sobs*
Cencoroll in a nutshell... cock tease.
ZODDGUTS
2009-11-01, 15:34
It was alright but it was already done better by a little series called Shadow Star Narutaru.
hmm what did i just watched...
but the animation is really good
Kaoru Chujo
2009-11-15, 02:46
Personally, that was the beauty of it. We didn't need to know the whole story, you just enjoyed the 30 minute experience. We don't need to know anymore, just focus on what's going on. That's what i did, and i fully enjoyed the hell out of it.Yeah. It was what it was. Better than most things. Outstanding animation. Enjoyable weirdness. More or less a complete story, if you don't need to know where everything came from. Good music (ryo/supercell, who did the Bakemonogatari ED). Excellent voices -- Hanazawa Kana, Shimono Hiro, Kimura Ryohei (Takizawa in Eden of the East) -- creating interesting characters. That's enough. I don't need any more.
SuperKnuckles
2009-11-15, 05:16
Cencoroll in a nutshell... cock tease.
LOLOL. So true.
I don't have too big a problem with shows not having complete stories and all, but to me, a sci-fi sort of lends itself to at least try to show off its world and how its world works. That's the cool part of sci-fi. The world that is so different from ours. It's just happens so that we really only did get a small taste and I have to sort of side with the folks who almost feel like shortchanged since there was potential for more.
Then again, one of my favorite short-series efforts is Alien Nine and fans of that OVA + Manga knows how mysterious the backplot still is even with the manga involved. But even that effort was longer and more fleshed out..
Kaoru Chujo
2009-11-16, 21:25
...I don't have too big a problem with shows not having complete stories and all, but to me, a sci-fi sort of lends itself to at least try to show off its world and how its world works. That's the cool part of sci-fi. The world that is so different from ours. It's just happens so that we really only did get a small taste and I have to sort of side with the folks who almost feel like shortchanged since there was potential for more....I think "sci-fi" in the thread title is misleading, and sets up false expectations. I don't see it in the Japanese material linked to from the first post. In fact, "school life" is also a bit misleading, lol. This is fantasy, it seems to me. And excellent animation. And an interesting character, in the girl: why is she so bold?
Maybe the "auteur" is an animator, not a story-teller, and wasn't that concerned with filling out the context. I thought he did a pretty good job of implying a big enough picture to make it meaningful, but the larger background really wasn't there, for sure.
SuperKnuckles
2009-11-17, 03:29
I think it sorta didn't help that in the context of things, apparently the big monster and its user were on the attack before the show's events and apparently the issue isn't done yet afteward either. But again, shows like Alien Nine did the same exact thing and it turned out to be pretty compelling watch if for the brief window we get to see into that world.
In fact, I think a ton of anime OVAs and short series do that quite a bit.
I guess I was spoiled by Eve no Jikan... I ended up being a bit disappointed by this after all the build up. Ah well, it wasn't *bad*... but for me it overflowed with missed opportunity.
Psykewne
2009-11-24, 22:46
I think there could definately be a series in this down the line, feels like there's alot to explore and explain. I feel this was a very good set-up/introduction to quite a unique and interesting world. I liked it, hope we see more in the future.
With the ending having his arm replaced with cenco and yuki with control it feels like there's real efforts to bring the main cast together for some hilarity if there's any future work installments. Also the open ended nature of our villain's survival pleased me, purely because, well he's a good villain, he didn't pull any punches and went directly with his agenda, sneak attack with a spear made from a pylon and all :P
IronWarrior
2009-11-25, 16:40
Hmm, watched the trailer, seems to be some type of flying whale with rockets in his ass with wings with missiles.
Hmm. :/
This is a little like Eva, it doesn't necessarily make sense or fit into some standard way of thinking, its just made to be different.
Something I forgot to mention before that I found quite curious (in a refreshing sort of way) in this short movie was the bizarre apathy and boredom the characters employ. That might be saying something about Japan's youths (or youths everywhere in general), it might not. However, I thought it was interesting and absurdly funny (Narutaru this ain't); the quiet atmosphere certainly fit the tone.
FlareKnight
2009-11-30, 05:25
Well this is one of those things that was pretty nice to watch, but definitely leaves you wanting to see more. Feels like this could have been a special intro to a series. The way it ended definitely felt like it could go into something more. Gave a taste and that was it.
Still had some pretty fun moments. Go forth giant pudding :D! Not to mention one heck of a finishing blow there. Forget the complicated weapons sometimes you need something simple like a bat.
Starry Dust
2009-12-01, 21:49
Just finished watching it.
The only thing I can come up for this one-shot is that it was "cool".
I felt like it lacked some substance though.
Eater of All
2010-02-23, 19:02
Poor walnut. :(
Anyways, I agree with the someone who said this resembles more of a fantasy than a science fiction. The only thing sci-fi about it seems to be the electric-powered remote control ahoge, while the rest is about monsters beating the crap out of each other. Cenco is still adorable as hell though; long live internal beauty!
Nonetheless, I suppose I don't regret spending those 26 minutes. The animation was, of course, beyond all of my expectations, and the interactions between Yuki, Tetsu, and Cenco were hilarious as hell. Despite the lack of music (or perhaps because of it), the show felt surprisingly immersive, allowing me to enjoy the story even though I don't know what in the Sam Hill is going on.
If a Cencoroll series is going to be made in the future, I'll definitely be watching it. :)
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