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Musaigen no phantom world limbo gif7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() None of this imagery is ever used again, so I still have no idea what it was really meant to convey. At first, I thought that this scene was meant to convey the way that we can’t quite fully process colors when we first wake up, and that Lulu banging the clock into existence was a really clever representation of Haruhiko’s eyes coming into focus on that object but the rest of the room’s transformation isn’t from Haruhiko’s perspective, and makes it seem like he lives in some kind of weird digital fantasy world. Now, you could say that the theme of the series is tricks of perception in general but the whole pixelation thing doesn’t really relate to anything. You could make the case that calling attention to the unreality of a story is kind of like shattering an illusion but again, it’s not quite the same thing as having your brain tricked, nor having it changed. Changing the way that the brain works and causing it to perceive something totally new is pretty much besides the point, and does not effectively tie into the motif of illusion.įor that matter, breaking the fourth wall doesn’t really connect to either of these motifs. The interesting thing about illusions is how they show us that, in spite of having certain visual information right in front of us, our brains are tricked into misinterpreting that information because of how they attempt to compress it. What I don’t get here, is how the concept of altering the human brain is thematically related to the fact that the brain is already imprecise in its perception. ![]() Later in the episode, we learn that in this show’s universe, a gigantic virus leak has altered everyone’s brains in such a way that they can now see and interact with formerly invisible entities known as phantoms, which apparently are the explanation for all of history’s folklore and myths and stuff. Haruhiko explains that the human brain is kind of iffy and imprecise in its ability to perceive reality, as exemplified by all of these optical illusions and how a slight change in someone’s brain chemistry may cause them to see things which they had never realized were there all along. There’s a clever little fourth wall break when she peels the main character’s eyeballs open to wake him up, followed by a creative sequence of the world becoming progressively less pixelated as the character stumbles around.īut a question which I found myself asking early and often throughout my time watching this series was, “what is this all in service of?” Or, as they say back at home, “what’s the point?” From the opening of the first episode, wherein a sequence of optical illusions is used to set the tone of the series, I love how the mascot character’s hair falls to the sides of her face after posing for the classic vase illusion and just how playfully the entire scene goes about pushing her into all of these examples. It’s difficult not to be impressed with the level of detail that Kyoani seems predisposed to loading into their animation. Unfortunately, there are some people out there who choose to view this gif collection as if it were an actual TV show–and those people tend to find themselves woefully disappointed. ![]() Ishihara Tatsuya and his team at Kyoto Animation have proven time and again that they are possibly the best in the entire world at creating anime gifs and this intense memetic potential has lead to worldwide attention for much of their work. ![]() It is an exceptionally well-crafted internet meme, with attractive character designs, vibrant colors, and flashy animation that loops into itself very easily. Myriad Colors Phantom World is a sequence of highly entertaining animated gifs, which were released in twenty-two minute chunks over the course of the Winter 2016 anime season. ![]()
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