Adapted from the most finest work since Tatami Galaxy, The Night is Short, and The Eccentric Family
"As the wind blew, the grass sparkled, wet from the morning dew. There was a squeaking noise that sounded like the school’s floors creaking. In the middle of the huge empty lot, there were a number of penguins waddling around."
Going embark into superstitious child-oriented but with eccentric wholesomeness from within every sense of direction and far detail like in most avant garde Satoshi Kon's films. The Mindsets of capturing the essence by it's captivating caricature can leaves a very own boundary. Visuals are usually vivid and featured through of such memoir abstract detail through surrealism.
Despite all the connections between the two, both The Tatami Galaxy and The Night is Short Walk On, Girl
Penguin Highway are also self-contained stories that can be enjoyed on their own. That said, they really are best enjoyed together. Each one provides its own nuanced perspective on the contrary between life and youth, and the fact that those perspectives are sometimes lightly contradictory just makes their insights that much saturated. The similarities are pretty obvious, and both stories arrive at similar places by the end, with the protagonists breaking out of self-precognition cycles and learning to live more emotionally fulfilling lives.
As if that wasn't enough, The Studio Colorido and his team went and recreated all of the stylistic flourishes and ambiguous format between providing the reluctant art for Morimi's original novels and often the lightning-fast absurdist monologues and ideologies.
A heaping dose of surreal imagery and cartoon exaggeration, matching and at times surpassing the visuals of the TV series. When watched back-to-back, it's probably the closest animation could get to the feeling of reading both books, in that the stories are different but the pacing, dialogue, and artwork all feel like they sprout from the same mind.
