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Reluctant as I am to even admit that I watch anime, there’s something really interesting and stylish about how it seems to deal with physics. Within almost every film/show I’ve watched, there seems to be a repetition of this delay between action and reaction: a character’s hair waiting just a second longer to obey gravity than the rest of him; a sweeping reflective glimmer on a weapon that’s just stopped moving. This strange delay and tension between movements makes time feel like its constantly changing velocity, and reminds me in a way of the same odd moments of still tension between wrestlers as they grapple against each other with almost equal force. The two could be interesting to combine. There is of course also the iconic style of anime, which could be interesting when compiled with more western, classical landscape scenes, for example.
(1) GIF taken from Akira, Dir. Atom, K., Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Japan, 1988
(2) GIF taken from Kill La Kill, Dir. Imaishi, H., Adult Swim, America, 2013-2014
https://anime.aminoapps.com/page/item/kill-la-kill/pLtp_IqLrz5qM7oQqLqVBBZdNljL6V