It’s a lot and all of it flies at the screen at Mach … what’s the highest Mach? Whatever it is, that’s how fast. There’s more, including a megalomaniac cyborg ruler, organized disgruntled miners (the digging kind), not one but two gigantic biological weapons, mobsters, gambling, an orbital cannon, aliens in every direction, supersonic nail-biting racing, and a pretty girl who likes to to drive and takes her top off because of course she does.
Can you guess who wins? Redline 2009 © Tohokushinsha FilmĪnd that’s it. ‘Manages’ might be the wrong word as a bit of trickery is at play, but either way, he’s on his way to Roboworld, where the race will be held, meeting various other competitors leading up the starting line. We meet “Sweet” JP, a slick ridiculous pompadour-wearing racer who finally manages to qualify for the Redline, the biggest most popular race in the galaxy. So what is the story, or lack of it? In a word, racing. After all, you could easily say that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets or John Carter or even Jupiter Ascending are visually stunning yet none of these met with any acclaim, let alone a legacy like Redline, which admittedly didn’t have box office success yet has become renowned in the years following. It’s an interesting situation, one that I think only animation has rights to.
#REDLINE ANIME MOVIE#
Indeed, any consensus of the movie would have to include that most take note of the film’s lack of plot and let the imagery itself be the marker for success rather than the story that (literally) drives it. So much so that it is practically shielded from any other possible criticism.
So, remeber the scene when he is testing the black car with the old engine, and crashes, falling into a pit but ending up undamaged, ( here, around 57:04) the thing is, for a brief moment we see it's eyes throw a yellow flame-shine in a yellow light, and this isn't explained in the movie or anything, not even mentioned now, in Trava: Fist Planet, Trava and Shinkai arrive at a planet where they have to do a kind of analysis that they couldn't do before due to a war, when entering the planet a yellow light blinds them and makes them lose control of the ship which damages it, however, they fall undamaged, even Mikuru partially heals it's face scar, also this light helps Trava when fighting the spider bio weapons, it is explained to us that there are certain planets that are like, alive, have a kind of energy-entity inside them that represents the planet as a whole, and those entities often chose to help those who are of it's liking, usually healing them, my theory is that Europass, if not also other planets in the movie, are that type of planets, and those planets choose to help JP because they see something in him, preventing him from heavily damaging-dying when racing.“Visual masterpiece” is perhaps the most common description for Redline, a hand drawn anime film released in 2009 that certainly deserves, or at least demands, that particular praise.
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