I just need to post about and link to two Gintama fanworks I saw on Tumblr last week (at least one of them is much older than that, but it was new to me!) which impressed me out of the ordinary.
1. By frenchyvanilla:
Joui Four fancomic made to the song Dead Hearts Ahh, maybe this is a Known Format and all, but to me it's brand new! Like a video but in still pics, this is a great usage of the comics medium in tandem with music. (The sound file attached didn't work for me, but it was easy to find the song, "Dead Hearts" by Stars, on Youtube and listen to it while reading the pictures.) The choice of which pictures to draw and match to which line of lyrics (which character "sings" what, how they are depicted, etc), the execution of the drawings themselves, with a deceptively simple-looking style that is very expressive and free-flowing, and the very clever and affecting use of repetition of images together with the repeated lyrics all worked so well for me to make for a truly stunning effect in combination! So creative!!
2. Uploaded by t0xicstate to Youtube back in 2011 (!!!) (Hopefully the uploader is also the creator, or closely associated with them):
Amazing fan-drawn fanvid focusing on Katsura - Katsura in general but especially his feelings for his Sensei, Shoyo Yoshida, something that Gintama itself hasn't focused too much on. Gintoki and Takasugi are very present as well, naturally. The song is by RADWIMPS and is called "Manifesto".
The name for this video is written as 【手書き金魂】マ/ニ//フ_ェス_ト on Youtube,but I'm honestly not sure even how to transliterate it properly, I'm afraid! (In Google Translate it's romanised as "[Tegaki kintama] ma/ ni/ / fu _ ~esu _ to".) which should be romanised as "Tegaki kintama: Manifesto" (thank you, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
naye!). I was surprised to see how old it was - back in 2011 not too much of the characters' backstories had been revealed, but this project felt so much in line with later reveals I assumed on first viewings it was way more recent. The art itself is lovely, the animation may be unavoidably choppy but I find it perfectly adequate for its purpose; and most importantly the choice of images and how their sequence and editing feels moving and appropriate.
I'm not generally much for doujinshi because I don't know Japanese, and I always get extremely curious about what the dialogue says, so even though I've glimpsed many tantalising works on Pixiv and elsewhere I've seldom felt too tempted by them. But you know, if the key images of this fanvid were available in wordless comic form, I'd gladly pay up for overseas shipping. I would so love to own them just as still images. And they work so well in the fanvid! Wow.
1. By frenchyvanilla:
Joui Four fancomic made to the song Dead Hearts Ahh, maybe this is a Known Format and all, but to me it's brand new! Like a video but in still pics, this is a great usage of the comics medium in tandem with music. (The sound file attached didn't work for me, but it was easy to find the song, "Dead Hearts" by Stars, on Youtube and listen to it while reading the pictures.) The choice of which pictures to draw and match to which line of lyrics (which character "sings" what, how they are depicted, etc), the execution of the drawings themselves, with a deceptively simple-looking style that is very expressive and free-flowing, and the very clever and affecting use of repetition of images together with the repeated lyrics all worked so well for me to make for a truly stunning effect in combination! So creative!!
2. Uploaded by t0xicstate to Youtube back in 2011 (!!!) (Hopefully the uploader is also the creator, or closely associated with them):
Amazing fan-drawn fanvid focusing on Katsura - Katsura in general but especially his feelings for his Sensei, Shoyo Yoshida, something that Gintama itself hasn't focused too much on. Gintoki and Takasugi are very present as well, naturally. The song is by RADWIMPS and is called "Manifesto".
The name for this video is written as 【手書き金魂】マ/ニ//フ_ェス_ト on Youtube,
naye!). I was surprised to see how old it was - back in 2011 not too much of the characters' backstories had been revealed, but this project felt so much in line with later reveals I assumed on first viewings it was way more recent. The art itself is lovely, the animation may be unavoidably choppy but I find it perfectly adequate for its purpose; and most importantly the choice of images and how their sequence and editing feels moving and appropriate.I'm not generally much for doujinshi because I don't know Japanese, and I always get extremely curious about what the dialogue says, so even though I've glimpsed many tantalising works on Pixiv and elsewhere I've seldom felt too tempted by them. But you know, if the key images of this fanvid were available in wordless comic form, I'd gladly pay up for overseas shipping. I would so love to own them just as still images. And they work so well in the fanvid! Wow.
