Southpaw

Sometimes, a stroke of luck brings together elements that work together perfectly. Southpaw is one of those cases.

An absolute madlass of a director and animator Kabuki Sawako with her surreal, sometimes distasteful and yet still amusing animations together with Kuricorder Quartet, a folk band with specific sound. Those two elements compliment each other perfectly, like salt an pepper, like knife and fork, like cheese and wine, like pineapple and pizza. I usually treat "quirky" as a pretentious buzzword, but in this instance is the perfect adjective to use. Colorful, playful and weird. Weird in a very entertaining way.

In fact, right after I watched Southpaw ... for the first time, I just had to rewatch it. And again. And again. How much anime can boast attention magnet this strong? Not to mention, that rewatching Southpaws does in fact have value besides just being entertained again. There's just so much characters that you can focus on just part of the screen and watch what exactly are those small figures doing in the background, which you haven't noticed the first time.

I am not afraid to call Southpaw a work of art and I feel truly blessed that I exist in the same sphere of reality as this little gem.

Fucking beautiful.

Fucking perfect.

Such a masterpiece of a music video was everything I wanted to see 3 am in the morning.
Nothing more, nothing less.

The animation and music resonated with my tired soul. A roller coaster of emotions was released on to me. Hitting me hard like a truck for 2 minutes of my life. The aftermath was of pure bliss, which nothing can be compared to. Tears were running down my face which I did not realize until I was brought back into reality. Confused and aroused, I collected my thoughts and focused up. It was only then, I truly recognized what perfect ... art was.

I can now go to sleep peacefully knowing such a video exist in this world.

Thank you, Sawako Kabuki.

After watching 'Cockroach Calisthenics' I found this work of art by Sawako Kabuki, I can say for sure I was confused but intrigued at the same time. The fluid nature of the movements of joints on each thing, and mainly wrists makes it seem like it was an actual person just green screened. I can only call things because I am not sure what they are, but with the heads of those things, it looks completely hand drawn, in fact I believe it is completely hand drawn so well too. While being baked I felt completely entranced by the colors and movement of each thing. ... The sound was aight at best, with it sounding like a 3rd graders first recorder. I can't say much about the story, because I don't fully understand what I watched, I just know it was intriguing as heck.