Kuro Nyago

Rate a 4
English Subbed
art film

Story
Introduction was okay because not only covered where the story was going to go but was at a nice/slow progression.

Plot's wording is what bugged me. It was kind of vague, "throw it once" was is it? Why is it being thrown?

Ending made me confused. Not saying it was terrible. Coming from a theatrical viewpoint it ended like most plays. Although plot wise it did not answer or reflect on a conclusion to the main issue that was asked in the introduction.
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Art
-A tad too bright.
-Currently featured in black and white. If color was added i don't think it would portray an improvement. Making black and white a good choice.
-Has a few questionable moments. For example roughly around two minute mark setting completely changes. Almost as if a past vision was being shown. But due to lack of additional input of drawings i don't believe that to be the case. An example of additional drawing would have been a tiger.
-polka dots could just be me but looks terrible in black and white settings.

Sound
-Unfortunately static ruins a touch of the musical.
-Subtitles at certain points run behind audio track.

Entertainment comes in all shapes and forms, and even more so, vary throughout the ages. Since the first ever animated movies were a thing, the medium has known massive changes, and if we would compare what we have nowadays with what came first, the differences would be shockingly massive. What primarily cause these differences are is culture influence, and that's a variable that changes every now and then.

- Story (1.0/10):
Kuro Nyago tells a short tale of four brothers to get told by two cats that they are descendants of some tabby tiger, that sounds like something any underdeveloped toddler can come up with. But seeing ... how many Japanese folklore fables got to get animated first in that fashion makes a perfect excuse for the odd nature of this short.

- Art (1.0/10):
I going to be hard on this one, I do understand the rough aging this animation came through, but in term of its quality, it doesn't hold a single bit for today's standards. The movements felt very static, as simple as moving a still image in 5 FPS at best.

- Sound (3.0/10):
For being a musical, I gotta give it a solid score for being catchy as old as it is, but the quality was still horrible, I can already feel the pain the translators went through to make out what they were saying as all I could hear was distorted cat noises ironically enough. Unless it was in fact translated by a secret regiment of cats ruling us from the shadows.

- Character (0.0/10):
Well, other than four human figures that are all identical in form, and in complete sync in movements, they were all quibbling about getting a cat, so that also makes it clear they have the same likes. It all sounds like an easy copypasta in more than appearance.

- Enjoyment (2.0/10):
“Why are we here? Just to suffer?” that was me all the time watching the short begging for it to end as soon as possible. There was zero catch for me at the end other than getting the tone stuck to my head for how catchy it was.

- Overall (1.4/10):
There's no way I would recommend this outdated piece of work unless somebody was super interested in some old Japanese animations, I don't know how successful this was in its time, but if it was that big, then the tastes of people have come to know a massive development. Many would call it creepy in the modern day, but I kind of understand what was behind it back in the day.