Ahiru no Otegara

With so many beautifully animated shows out nowadays, It's nice to take a step back and look at where it all began. I have always appreciated old animated shorts like this. Ahiru no Otegara, in particular, is a fairly obscure anime, but I found it to be rather enjoyable for what it is. This short is about 1 minute and a half long, so it's story telling might not be the best, however it does manage to entertain during those few moments. It does a good job at letting you know what is going on without voice acting or sound affects. It doesn't seem like ... much for today's standards, but I found it to be very cute. I recommend it to anyone who wants some 30s anime goodness.

Rate a 5
no vocals or subtitles aside from title
art piece

Story
Many things or some things, depending on view come without or little warning. Here is no different in regards to the anime. Yet, that should not be reason to skip out on the introduction. Make it comical, make it poetic, something. How it resides currently is almost sad. In other words far to rushed. Conclusion makes sense to the title name but at the same time is too predicable.

Art
Black and white. The contrast is off so it comes to no surprise the images would be blurry.

... Sound
There were no spoken vocals or subtitles. There was just classical background music.

Character
Could have used some caption or something to explain a little of what is going and why.

Enjoyment
A bad result with a good ending. Goes along with the principle don't judge something based on appearance.

It's a short movie about some wacky tornado that comes and tries to wipe everything out in the most 30s Disney way you could imagine.

The story is literally just a speedrun of some duckling trying to (then successfully) saving the animals on the farm. I feel like stories like these are the ones with a moral of the story behind them, but I am not sure if this had a message to it if it was based on "The Ugly Duckling" or based on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". In any case, it is a likeable story, seems to be dedicated to kids if anything, ... but I cannot confirm. It's still good for all.

The production obviously is old as hell. Pretty much classic Disney but some Japanese dudes made this, the sound was nice too, had that old classic piano to it. Basically, everything was classic.

I'd watch this if I were you, I'm sure mainstream fans would point out quickly how it isn't traditional anime, but it's a relic that shouldn't go untouched lol. It's... just an interesting old short.

終！