Adventures in Beauty Wonderland

So that's how it feels like to be high... Interesting. Ok!

Adventures in Beauty Wonderland was a bit scary... but I'm sure there is some story behind this. I honestly did not know what in the name of Senpai was going on.

3 in rating
no vocals

art piece not anime

how to describe this? detail to the extreme might be an okay description. we all known women/girls take their appearance in general to the extreme. a little touch of on the eyes and a little here on the lips. However, nothing quite captures the madness in that except this. Whales and dolphins as ugly girls. Girl this beauty that. All with either a beauty or girl theme. I think the idea that the director was going for is that this idea of preconceived beauty is monstrous. Frankly i agree.

Sincerely, snapler

Welcome to Beauty Wonderland.

Tanaami Keiichi is an interesting guy, he seems to be a fan of trippy works and stuff that is completely nonsensical. In saying such, I haven't seen a lot from him.

Adventures in Beauty Wonderland is something that I found to be a little different to evaluate though. Sure, it is silly, maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense, though I must say how this is less thought-provoking, in a literal sense, than meets the eye. However, something about this title shoots out to you, not like anything I have seen before.

What is beauty?

To me or any sane person, this ... work doesn't look really beautiful at all, everything here is a juxtaposition. It has vibrant colours sure, but it has deformed characters who've seen the aftermath of radiation turning their face into molten. It is an ugly thing. I am not entirely sure as to what it is Tanaami is getting at with "beauty". But this presentation is really a matter to go on and discuss on. It isn't the kind of anime to be devoid of message nor a clear message. It's one that needs elaborating on, be it by yourself or between multiple parties.

Maybe I am thinking about it too much, but my reaction to this was just amazing as well. Kinda makes your head spin a little, maybe nauseous if you are unfortunate enough. It is just, alien, and that is very amazing stuff.

The coordinate that really makes this worth viewing is honestly the reaction you may gain from it if nothing else.

Or maybe I am just having a headache at a ridiculously inconvenient time.

9/10.

Review of an animated art piece.

This is the perfect anime for:
- "You aren´t sure whether this anime or porn would be the worst thing for your mom to catch you watching"
- This anime is suited for inspiration of tonight´s dream, the next LSD trip or if you are trying to stop using LSD but need the psychedelic experience

This 4 minutes long art work by Keiichi Tanaami. I had a very much hard time knowing what the hell it was about (which really is a big con for me), it is inspired by alice in wonderland and I can see some connections but I can´t ... find any meaning in it, if you can, i would like to know :3
but compared to Keiich´s other works, this one is totally different. Yes it is a mindfuck but it isn´t as perverted as many of his works is and it was kindda beautiful art and somewhat very fluent animation (he tends to use very flashy shifting frames which would trigger all epileptic people)

so yeah this is not your average anime :3 But try it anyway, sometimes we need a dose of mindfuck :P

I was originally convinced that this film was some sort of abstract meditation on beauty in relation to sameness and identity or something like that, until I saw that it was commissioned by Sephora, which led me to believe that what this really was was just a very eye-catching rendition of Alice in Wonderland made to serve as proof that Sephora's brand could be outside of the box, which is definitely a bit disappointing.

It's hard to rate this using the same metrics as you would any other anime, since it's not meant to be consumed as such. As another review pointed out, although this is ... classified as anime by the site, it really is more like a fine art project, with no concrete story or characters. However, I'll give it a go:

Story: N/A
I'm sure the story behind Keiichi Tanaami's quest to procure the psychedelics necessary to produce this work was fascinating, but unfortunately, that's not what we're here to discuss. As I hinted at before, whatever "story" you want to see here is completely your own interpretation, since there's no real plotline that can be discerned from any of this. Sources say that it's an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but I have a hunch that it might be missing a few key scenes here and there. Then again, maybe I'm just not artsy or cool enough to notice them.

If I had to guess, I'd say that it's about Eye-lice (Get it? HA HA? RIGHT???) venturing into the underworld to get her some of that bangin' new Too Faced collection from Sephora because it sold out on the surface world, only to find that all of her clones went down there to get it too, and now they're stuck there forever left to gaze upon reflections of their own pride and greed. Either that or the weirdest house party ever got flooded. You decide.

Art: 5
As much as I can appreciate what's been done here, it's hard to deny that it's a bit of an eyesore. The film is like an atom in that it never stops moving, not even for a second. Different parts move at different speeds and there are a million different parts for you to semi-focus on, though everything is so painfully vibrant that it feels like there is no real focus. It's not quite unbearable to the point of creating sensory overload, but it's difficult to digest since it's clearly meant to be as trippy as possible. I might have stronger opinions if I was under the influence, but, alas, I lack the proper facilities. However unpleasant it may be to look at at times, though, Tanaami's style is so distinct and yet so varied that it's hard not to at least be enthralled by the imagery. Yet knowing that this is all for some makeup megacorporation kind of frames whatever I thought it was in a different light.

Sound: 5?
Yup, there was definitely sound! No doubt about that!
I just loved it how whenever one of the surely hundreds of eyeballs in this blinked, you couldn't miss it because it played something that sounded like the mating call of one of those sea creatures you find at the bottom of the ocean. It really helped me in understanding what the underlying themes of this film were: friendship and finding your way back home.
Just kidding. The noise was f--king annoying.
Like the artwork, the soundtrack here was ceaselessly busy, just noise after noise after noise, but I suppose the two went hand in hand, since the music was such a huge component of what created the sometimes uneasy atmosphere in this piece. There were definitely some...interesting...choices, like the brief inclusion of some slowed down moans from someone who was orgasming, giving birth, getting tortured, or all of the above, but that's for Keiichi Tanaami to understand and for the rest of us plebes to sit back and admire. So I guess it gets a 5, since I can't really think of anything else to give it.

Character: N/A
Are there characters? Is "Alice" a single character, several characters, the personification of some abstract concept, or merely a figment of our imaginations? Is the eyeball a motif or do each of the individual eyes count as characters, or are they all perhaps one character showing up in different forms? Do all of the figures floating down the river have backstories or do they start and end when we see them? Do I know? Do I care? As a matter of fact, no. No, I don't. Moving on!

Overall: 5
I can't believe I just wrote a review this long for something that is less than 5 minutes and doesn't even have an actual narrative, but that's art for ya, folks!
Anyway, might watch whatever the hell this is if I ever decide to drop acid.