Time for Buurin! C1
Source: TV
Layers: 1
Sketches: 2
Cel Number: C1
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Added 2/27/2007
Updated 5/24/2024
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Oh, no! >Keiko has fallen into one of the cave's booby traps! This series of sketches, representing cuts 120, 122, 130, 133, and 135, shows Karin looking over the edge of the trap, reacting first with shock, then with frustration because she's not able to transform into her magical self in front of other people. She has to wait until the others run off for help and end up in another trap.
This cut, though planned as a single series, was broken into five shorter sequences with alarms and excursions between. Toward the end we see Ton-chan pop up to give Karin the all-clear; then she retreats with the magical Tonpact into the shadows, and returns as Buurin!
The animation director, Tatsuo Miura [三浦辰夫], put a lot of work into the shuuseis, or correction sketches, for this set. As with other sketch sets from this episode, these shuuseis were done on thin, poreous white paper, possibly the layout paper used by the studio since the reverse side is pre-printed with the usual blank spaces for series, episode, scene, and cut info.
In any case, this paper proved an ideal medium for these pencil sketches, as it took the graphite more boldly than the genga paper. Miura was clearly a talented artist, too, as the images of Karin are clearly more evocative than the gengaman's on which they are based.
Hence I've put these shuuseis in the place of honor, scanning them on top of the gengas to provide a shadow of the rest of the sketch, and given only a sampling of the gengas in thumbnails. You can see the first of these gengas by clicking below: see how the too-broad mouth provides just a bit too much broad humor for the moment. The sakkan's revision more effectively puts across Karin's genuine concern for poor Keiko and her mussed jacket.
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The artist, Tatsuo Miura, supervised nine episodes in this series, including the crucial Ep. 1. You can see another example of his pastel-like shuusei work in the thumbnail to this sketch from Ep. 17. Miura also was animation director for Ep. 8 of Tenshi ni Narumon and character designer for the quirky Mama wa Poyopoyo-Saurus ga Osuki (1995-96). He later served in a variety of roles, including storyboarding and episode direction.
Recently he was announced as series director for The 8th son? Are you kidding me? (八男って, それはないでしょう!) a TV series projected for broadcast in 2020.
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