Download (OVA) explained

, also known as Download: Devil's Circuit[1] and Download: Song in Loving Homage to Amida Buddha,[2] is a direct-to-video anime inspired by the NEC PC Engine games Download and Download 2.[3] [4]

Staff

Besides including themes that inspired psychological studies, such as brain–computer interfaces,[5] the OVA is notable for its production staff,[6] which included Rintaro and Yoshinori Kanada,[7] [8] two of the most acclaimed and important animators in anime history,[9] [10] [11] and Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu, a member of the enormously popular 1960s band The Spiders and later a successful solo artist.[12]

Reception

Hardcore Gaming 101, a respected retrogaming publication,[13] [14] [15] observed apparent influences from Akira and Megazone 23. It highlighted that the title introduces Japanese Buddhist themes to the franchise, but criticized the fact that the length of the animation is not long enough to develop its plot.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: K . Stephen . REVIEW: Download - Devil's Circuit (1992) . Arcadia Pod . 29 July 2024 . 21 February 2022.
  2. Book: Clements . Jonathan . McCarthy . Helen . The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation . 9 February 2015 . Stone Bridge Press . 978-1-61172-909-2 . en.
  3. Web site: ＰＣエンジン関連映像 . www.pcengine.jp . 29 July 2024.
  4. Web site: WEBアニメスタイル_アニメの作画を語ろう . www.style.fm.
  5. Book: アニメーションの臨床心理学 . August 2006 . 誠信書房 . 978-4-414-40029-8 . 190–192 . 2 August 2024 . ja.
  6. Web site: Gekkan PC Engine #01 (January 1993) . TurboPlay Magazine Archives . 29 July 2024.
  7. Web site: DOWN LOAD 南無阿弥陀仏は愛の詩 . www.madhouse.co.jp . 29 July 2024.
  8. Web site: ダウンロード . www.linkclub.or.jp . 29 July 2024.
  9. Green . Laurence . Selling the spectacle of destruction - The films of Rintaro, and Japanese animation's transnational transformation from 'cult' to 'commercial' . 8 June 2019 . London Screen Studies Group Conference. 2 August 2024 . en.
  10. Watzky . Matteo . The Dynamism of Anime Images: The Case of the 'Kanada-style' Movement . The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies . 3 December 2023 . 4 . 190–218 . 10.21900/j.jams.v4.1195 . en . 2689-2596. free .
  11. Book: Utsugi . Kei . Naemura . Takeshi . Koike . Takafumi . Oikawa . Michio . E-IMPACT: Exaggerated illustrations using multi-perspective animation control tree structure . Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology . 8 November 2011 . 1–8 . 10.1145/2071423.2071502 . https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2071423.2071502 . 2 August 2024 . Association for Computing Machinery. 978-1-4503-0827-4 .
  12. Monstrous Melodies and Island Fantasies: Mothra, The Peanuts, and Japan's Cold War Cultures . The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus . 30 April 2024 . 2 August 2024.
  13. Web site: 2010-04-27. Mega Man: A Transmission from Another World. 2021-07-14. The Escapist. en-US. 2021-07-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210714231204/https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/mega-man-a-transmission-from-another-world/. live.
  14. Web site: 2011-12-23. Hardcore Gaming 101 Unveils Top 250 Western Gaming Tunes. 2021-07-14. The Escapist. en-US. 2021-07-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210714231203/https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/hardcore-gaming-101-unveils-top-250-western-gaming-tunes/. live.
  15. Web site: 2007-07-06. History of pre-Street Fighter II pugilism sims; wow, the past really sucked. 2021-07-14. Destructoid. en-CA.
  16. Web site: Download (Anime) . Hardcore Gaming 101 . 29 July 2024.

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