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By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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War wracks you with terrible transformations, and turns you into a monster. To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts<\/a> <\/em>takes place in an alternate America, renamed Patria, and begins in the fire of its civil war. In this world, the Southerners are winning, their firepower reducing the enemy to bloody meat (it\u2019s plain from the start that Beasts <\/em>will be gory). A lone Northern survivor, trapped in a trench, covers his head in terror. Then he\u2019s astonished to see a group of people in white uniforms stride across the battlefield towards the Southerners, and then swell and transform into monsters<\/em>; dragons, werewolves, snake-headed demons and more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the moment of glory for this test army unit, the Incarnates. Shame it won\u2019t last long. They\u2019re human soldiers who were injected with\u2026 something<\/em> by a woman scientist, Elaine, though not everyone can become an Incarnate; some mysterious personal quality is needed, too. At first the Incarnates work terribly well, smashing and tearing through the Southern forces and ending the war inside the first episode. But, of course, there\u2019s a snag. The more the Incarnates turn into monsters, the harder it is for them to turn back, and the greater the toll it takes on their minds. Eventually the soldiers\u2019 human reason gives way to savagery and bloodlust and RAWRRR!!!<\/p>\n

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Sacred Beasts<\/em> brings up a question that\u2019s been raised in other anime, especially in Attack on Titan<\/em>. If you\u2019ve watched the latter series, you may have found yourself wondering,can the people who pilot Titans really be howling, snarling monsters and<\/em> rational combat strategists at one and the same time? Sacred Beasts <\/em>says you can\u2019t <\/em>keep that balance, though vestiges of humanity linger on poignantly, even after the soldiers go wild. For example, one of the maddened Incarnate soldiers retains his desire to help his old mother. So, he slaughters merchants and travelers and brings back their bloodied moneybags, like a proud cat dropping dead birds over his mum\u2019s doormat.<\/p>\n

The serieslays out its emotional stakes very well in the first two tragic episodes. Part 1 introduces Hank Henriette, the Captain of the Incarnate Unit in the civil war. We also meet Cain Madhouse, his closest friend \u2013 yes, anyone who knows their Old Testament will read that<\/em> line a certain way, but we\u2019re not giving anything away. Hank cares for his men, and he\u2019s in love with Elaine Bluelake, the scientist. The Incarnate squad volunteered for this dangerous treatment, but Elaine still agonises over her actions as the men start succumbing to their monstrous sides. After an exciting, tragic face-off between the characters, a shattered Hank is left alone, committed to hunting down the members of his squad, and looking them in the eye as he takes his friends down.<\/p>\n

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The second episode introduces Nancy Schaal Bancroft, daughter of one of Hank\u2019s squad members, who bravely waved her father off to war. He actually came back home again, but things went very badly, and Nancy blames Hank for that. She pursues Hank across the country, carrying a gun she barely knows how to use. But then she sees Hank in action, and realises he\u2019s not just a heartless killer. So, they become travelling companions, as Hank continues to track the surviving members of the Incarnate Unit, and deeper plots rumble in the background.<\/p>\n

The MAPPA studio\u2019s producer Manabu Otsuka told the Animate Times<\/em>: \u201cThe first thing that interested me was [Nancy] Schaal\u2019s journey with Hank, an enemy of the family, which appealed to me as a road movie. That\u2019s why I wanted to focus on the relationship between the two of them. Also, I like foreign dramas, and I am also interested in stories about returning soldiers. I’ve never experienced war, so I can’t understand the essence of it, but I\u2019ve seen a lot of movies like that, so I thought I’d like to try various approaches when making it into an anime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sacred Beasts<\/em> began as a manga series by \u201cMaybe\u201d, the catch-all name for a duo of creators who themselves also use pseudonyms \u2013 Maybe is the artist, but LinLin, whoever that may be, is the writer. Active for many years within the fanzine circle Armoured Ginkakuji<\/em>, the pair had their professional debut in 2005 in Comic Yumeya<\/em>. By the following year, they were serialising Matsugaoka Angel<\/em> in the newly published Comic Retsu<\/em> magazine, and working on adult video games for railSoft. Their Twilight Maiden x Amnesia<\/em> ran for several years, and was itself adapted into an anime series. The creators, however, have remained relatively tight-lipped about their story\u2019s adaptation into animated form, limiting their comments to a gleeful celebration on the anime\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m wondering, is it really true!?\u201d wrote the artist. \u201cThe character design is so cool and the cast is full of wonderful people, so I think it will be an anime with many highlights. Please look forward to it! I’m really looking forward to it too!!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sacred Beasts <\/em>combines monstrous fighting with moral ambiguity and two leads with strong motivations. MAPPA studio has done more spectacular work since, but the scenery is pleasing, with some of the action taking place in Wild West frontier towns. A taciturn man and his young girl companion seeking monsters in Western towns\u2026 Feel those Vampire Hunter D <\/em>vibes!Both Hank and Nancy look good on screen, as do the other character designs, although the outfit of Liza, a female support character \u2013 and Liza could dowith some support \u2013 is ludicrous, so <\/em>silly that it\u2019s tough to take things seriously when she\u2019s on screen. In the words of retro-icon Kenneth Williams, \u201cTake them away!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked with the director, Shishido and the lead writer Shigeru Murakoshi,\u201d comments Otsuka, \u201cand we decided to run through an entire cours<\/em> [season] without creating a specific story arc. Naturally, there would be a lot of battle scenes, and there would be guest characters in each episode. We have to carefully depict the drama for Hank\u2019s subordinates. I knew we would face some challenges ever since I read the original work, but I thought it would be really good once we overcame them. Shishido-san is also all fired up, so the content of the first episode is amazing. I think it\u2019s pretty good! It\u2019s never negative, always positive, because it’s a manifestation of the desire to challenge everyone to make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The third episode is especially interesting for featuring an Incarnate soldier who just can\u2019t accept the war is over, so he keeps on fighting imaginary enemies. This refers to the famous cases of Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific islands who thought they were still fighting World War II, long after it ended in the outside world. But it\u2019s also a good fable about fear, with the poor monster building a fortress bigger and bigger and bigger<\/em>,in a doomed bid to match his soul-eating paranoia.<\/p>\n

The anime version is directed by Jun Shishido, who\u2019d helmed a very different anime set against a backdrop of war in 2011. That was an underrated romantic film, The Princess and the Pilot<\/em>, for the Madhouse studio. Its approach to worldbuilding was similar to the one that Sacred Beasts<\/em> would take, imagining parallel-world versions of foreign countries. Princess and the Pilot<\/em> was set in an alt-Europe that still revolves around royalty, but there are super-planes and heat-seeking missiles. Shishido\u2019s later MAPPA credits include storyboarding much of Yuri!!!! On Ice<\/em>, before he became Chief Episode Director of Attack on Titan<\/em> when MAPPA took over the show with its protracted \u201cFinal Season.\u201d Its mix of gritty warfare and giant monsters is far closer to Sacred Beasts<\/em> than to Princess and the Pilot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In Sacred Beasts<\/em>\u2019 cast, the hero Hank is voiced in Japanese by Katsuyuki Konishi, who you may know as Kamina in Gurren Lagann<\/em>, the jocular mecha warrior and \u201cbig brother\u201d character who makes a manly impact in that series\u2019 early episodes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI listened to the original creator\u2019s ideas, and decided on stellar casting in my head,\u201d says Otsuka. \u201cBut since there are so many characters, especially guest stars, I guess I was able to rely on actors with a high level of skill in order to add a bit of individuality. And Katsuyuki Konishi, who plays Hank, actually seemed to have read the original manga so I think it’s a blessing to work with someone who loves the work.\u201d And indeed, the updates on Anime News Network<\/em> in June 2019 sometimes seemed flooded with sudden scoops about big-name voice actors, showing up in cameo roles among Hank\u2019s posse.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, among the leads, Nancy is voiced by Ai Kakuma, who recently played Mystia, the established woman film star in Pompo the Cinephile<\/em>; you may also know Kakuma as Makomo in Demon Slayer<\/em>. Cain is voiced by Yuichi Nakamura, who\u2019s now prominent in MAPPA\u2019s Jujustu Kaisen<\/em> as the superpowered teacher Satoru; he\u2019s also the suave Shigure (the \u201cdog\u201d character) in the recent adaptation of Fruits Basket<\/em>. Among the supporting cast, the scientist Elaine is voiced by Mamiko Noto, who was Mavis in Fairy Tale <\/em>and Kotomi in Clannad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Everything is held together by the musical soundtrack from composer Yoshihiro Ike, who spent much of the production flitting backwards and forwards between Tokyo and Los Angeles, where he was also supervising the Saint Seiya<\/em> reboot. A jazz musician by preference, Ike fell into working for anime later in his career, as he related to Crunchyroll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was younger, I would play in sessions. And I would do like one-person performances, where I played the bass. I used to do mainly jazz. That was my niche, and my background. And so I came to LA just to play and I\u2019d do performances. From a young age I really loved film scores. And after I\u2019ve been working and performing as a jazz bassist, I then switched over to actually composing, but the actual impetus for that was that I met a director who suggested to me that I should actually write and compose the score for a film. And that was when my career as a composer really started. That was about in 1996\u2026 when I was about 34. Maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film in question was a two-hour instalment in the Ring<\/em> cycle of horror stories, but Ike notes that he owes much of his later career highs to the working relationship he has established in the anime world, particularly with MAPPA\u2019s Manabu Otsuka.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this relationship I have with MAPPA I\u2019ve been able to fulfill one dream after another!\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s all thanks to Otsuka-san, the CEO of MAPPA. And our relationship really goes beyond; it\u2019s an incredibly strong bond of trust that goes beyond just a normal relationship between a producer and a director and composer. I\u2019m always impressed by his power to bring people together and the power to bring the team at MAPPA together to create these worlds and these works. Whatever I can do to add to that, to support that, I would like to do it. I feel obliged to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Sacred Beasts<\/em>, Ike goes all out-out with a full orchestra, but also instrumentation evocative of the faux 19th-century setting that inspires the show \u2013 particularly trumpets introduced to the sound mix like buglers on a battlefield. It\u2019s as if a Western crashed into a Civil War movie\u2026 which was invaded by monsters\u2026 so pretty much sums up the show.<\/p>\n

Sacred Beasts<\/em>, wrote Anime News Network<\/em>\u2019s Theron Martin, \u201c\u2026is a tale about the reality of the soldier\u2014the sacrifices they must make to assure that battles are won and the dear cost that those victories can levy on the soldiers even long after the war is over. Psychological suffering following experience in warfare is now a well-recognized phenomenon; some can never truly leave the battlefield behind. Some injuries suffered in warfare can also define a lifetime. This series takes this idea literally, in the sense that transformed bodies cannot be fully reverted\u2026\u201d Repeatedly in the show, the story confronts the viewer with a fantastical, grotesque allegory of such poisonous traumas, set in a world all too like our own\u2026 apart from the fantastical monsters, of course.<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films<\/a><\/em>. To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts<\/a><\/em> is released in the UK by Anime Limited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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