{"id":93026,"date":"2024-07-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=93026"},"modified":"2024-09-30T20:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T03:43:22","slug":"interview-dan-da-dans-director-and-producer-discuss-the-upcoming-animes-color-usage-and-biggest-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/07\/31\/interview-dan-da-dans-director-and-producer-discuss-the-upcoming-animes-color-usage-and-biggest-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: DAN DA DAN’s Director and Producer Discuss The Upcoming Anime’s Color Usage and Biggest Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What happens when a supernatural skeptic and an alien skeptic discover that, well, they\u2019re both wrong, and both yokai and aliens actually exist? And what happens when those two humans, through very different circumstances, become owners of otherworldly powers themselves? That\u2019s the basic gist of <\/span>Yukinobu Tatsu<\/b>\u2019s<\/span> supernatural action manga <\/span>Dan Da Dan<\/span><\/i><\/a>, which is getting a <\/span>Science SARU<\/b>-produced TV anime adaptation this Fall 2024 anime season.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Anime Expo 2024, Anime Trending caught up with <\/span>Dan Da Dan <\/span><\/i>director <\/span>Fuga Yamashiro<\/b> and producer <\/span>Kohei Sakita<\/b> for a brief chat about the upcoming anime. We got to learn the reasons for the stylized use of color previewed in the trailers, their thoughts on the anime’s most appealing points, and why Yamashiro views SARU co-founder <\/span>Masaaki Yuasa<\/b><\/a> as \u201cthe kind of director that I want to be.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yamashiro-san, the color palette of some scenes has been one of the trailers\u2019 most eye-catching elements, with the first PV having monochrome scenes, shots where Momo\u2019s pink sweater is contrasted with cold blues and whites, and so forth. Can you describe your approach to color for the show and what instructions you delivered to color designer Satoshi Hashimoto-san, as well as to the directors of other episodes (that were not previewed in the trailers)?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuga Yamashiro<\/b>: When I read the manga, I thought this was an interesting manga because the romantic comedy and action elements were side-by-side and portrayed really effectively \u2014 you can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s a romcom <\/span>or<\/span><\/i> an action! It\u2019s actually both! I really thought the ups and downs of the manga were really interesting to me, so I wanted to portray that.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I went, \u201cHow do I portray all of that?\u201d I wanted to make sure that once you suddenly change into a battle scene, you can see the change drastically. That\u2019s when I said, \u201cOkay, let\u2019s just have different colors to showcase the different scenes!\u201d When I was talking to Hashimoto-san, I told him, \u201cEach yokai and alien that shows up are very specific and full of characteristics. I want to assign different colors to each one of them so when that certain yokai or alien comes out, I want to flush the whole screen with that color.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hashimoto-san chose the colors, and it\u2019s really like changing the color of the spotlights on a stage. Like when this character shows up, that color shows up. That was our planning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Yukinobu Tatsu\/\u200bSHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Another question for you Yamashiro-san. You\u2019ve previously been assistant director* under directors like Masaaki Yuasa** and Shingo Natsume***. What were the most valuable, memorable lessons, or pieces of knowledge that you got out of working with them? And are you applying them to your work in <\/b>Dan Da Dan<\/i><\/b>?<\/b>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuga Yamashiro:<\/b> Everything! I really needed that experience, or I don\u2019t think I would\u2019ve been able to direct right now. Especially with a director like Masaaki Yuasa, he really doesn\u2019t think, \u201cOh, I\u2019m going to be strange and do this!\u201d He really just tries to approach each project to make what\u2019s best for it. He\u2019s very true to himself and to the project. He doesn\u2019t think of a project as like \u201cmerchandise\u201d or something to make money [with]. Instead, it\u2019s really like an art form [to him].\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the kind of director that I want to be. I do realize that I ask a lot of my staff, but it is really for the project, and I try to think about what\u2019s the balance between asking for this much [for the project] versus how will the staff still be happy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, I have a question for Sakita-san. Can you explain the responsibilities of your role for this production, and the difference between the duty of an anime studio-attached producer like yourself and a producer like Hiroshi Kamei-san (who\u2019s from MBS)?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kohei Sakita: <\/b>Unfortunately, the other producer from MBS had to leave [from AX]. We have two animation producers on<\/span> Dan Da Dan <\/span><\/i>in addition to us. Basically, we work with the series production, the schedule and the budget with the two animation producers. Basically, I am responsible for everything that goes on within the anime production, up to post-production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were your thoughts when Science SARU was approached with the offer to produce <\/b>Dan Da Dan<\/i><\/b>?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kohei Sakita:<\/b> First, MBS\u2019 Kamei-san brought us this manga and said, \u201cWould you like to create an anime of this with us?\u201d So that was when I first read the manga. When I read the manga, I saw that it was a very passionate, high-voltage manga. I think that when I read it, it was only up to the second or third volume, but I knew it was going to be an uber-popular manga. So I knew that translating this along with its popularity to an anime would be challenging, but we decided that we wanted to challenge ourselves.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Among the staff, we researched anyone who had read <\/span>Dan Da Dan<\/span><\/i> already and discussed who would be the best director for the anime. That\u2019s when we ended up with Yamashiro-san.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Yukinobu Tatsu\/\u200bSHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

For both Yamashiro-san and Sakita-san, what do you think are the biggest strengths\/most appealing elements of this adaptation?<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kohei Sakita: <\/b>It\u2019s the<\/span> tempo, the speediness of the anime. The tempo of the story is just fast and quick and would be, I think, very entertaining.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fuga Yamashiro: <\/b>When I first read the manga, I thought it was really important to portray the energeticness or quickness of the manga. The manga itself is very fast, has big panels, and is very dynamic. So I thought, \u201cHow do we portray that in an animation?\u201d and I thought the important thing was keeping elements like\u00a0 \u201chard and soft\u201d or \u201cfast and slow.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And really, the timing of everything was important, like which scenes do we want to do quick-quick-quick-show-show-show, and which scenes do we want to spend time on. The ups and downs are really important to this anime. A long time ago, director Yuasa told me, \u201cTiming is everything!\u201d and I really felt that working on this anime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kohei Sakita: <\/b>I do agree with our director. The tempo is the main strength. But I do want the audience watching the anime to focus on not just the animation, the storyboarding, or the art, but also on the sound, the voice acting, the music, and the editing. We really worked on every single element, so it would be nice for everyone to focus on that when watching it.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fuga Yamashiro:<\/b> I also want to talk about the sound and soundtrack! The manga artist, Yukinobu Tatsu-sensei, is a fan of the old <\/span>Ultraman<\/span><\/i>. I wanted to incorporate that element so we would have some nostalgic sounds in the anime, similar to old <\/span>tokusatsu<\/span><\/i> sounds with modern sounds. The range of the sound components is very wide, so if the viewers can focus on that, that would be great.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you very much for your time! <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to GKIDS for this interview opportunity. <\/span>Dan Da Dan<\/span><\/i> will be available for streaming in October of 2024 on Crunchyroll and Netflix.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interview was conducted on July 4th, 2024 via interpreter and has been slightly edited for clarity. Interview conducted by James Mizutani with questions submitted by Melvyn Tan.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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* Yamashiro was assistant director on Tatami Time Machine Blues <\/span><\/i>and<\/span>\u00a0Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

** Masaaki Yuasa is the director of anime like <\/span>Inu-Oh<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Ride Your Wave<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Tatami Galaxy<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Ping Pong The Animation<\/span><\/i>, and more. Yuasa stepped down as SARU\u2019s CEO in 2020, passing the reins to co-founder<\/span> Eunyoung Choi<\/b>. His most recent work at the time of writing is the opening of <\/span>Spy x Family<\/span><\/i> Season 2, on which he served as storyboard artist and unit director.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*** Shingo Natsume is the director of anime like <\/span>Tatami Time Machine Blues<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Sonny Boy<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> One-Punch Man<\/span><\/i> Season 1, <\/span>Boogiepop and Others<\/span><\/i>, and<\/span> ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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