Tipo : OVA
Episodi: 1
Produttori: J.C. Staff
Generi: commedia, psicologico, mind bending
Durata: 32 minuti
Cat Soup (ねこぢる草, Nekojiru-So?, lit. Nekojiru Grass) is an award-winning animated short film directed by Tatsuo Sato, inspired by the work of manga artist Nekojiru. The surreal black comedy follows Nyatta, an anthropomorphic kitten, on his travel to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister's soul.
Cat Soup was released direct-to-DVD on February 21, 2001.
Trama
Nyāko, the older sister of Nyatta, lies very ill in her room. By accident, Nyatta sees his sister leaving the house holding hands with the Japanese version of Ksitigarbha, (known as Jizou in Japanese) and follows them. Nyatta claims one half of his sister's soul by pulling one arm. Nyāko's soul gets split in two, and her brother runs away with one half. Jizou sends a clue about a flower they must search for in order to retrieve the missing part, then walks away with the other half.
Nyatta returns home to find the doctor telling his parents that his sister is dead. Nyatta gets closer with the half-soul in his arms and puts it back in his sister's body through her nose. Nyāko wakes up braindead. Nyatta and Nyāko travel together and visit a circus (where god is represented as a magician). The final act causes a flood of water, which covers everything. The two of them end up on an Arc-esque boat with a pig, which they eventually begin to eat (by unzipping his stomach and pulling out butcher slabs). God drains the world of the oceans, leaving the cats and pig stranded in a desert. The pig bites off Nyatta's arm, which is repaired by a desert-dweller who makes dolls from the pieces of other cats.
Traveling across the desert, they are brought to a house by the smell of food, and are invited inside by a man. They are fed, and when full the man attempts to turn them into soup, attacking them with a pair of scissors. He ends up falling into the cauldron, Nyatta cuts him into pieces with the scissors and the cats escape. Wandering further across the desert dehydrated, Nyatta digs and finds an elephant made of water, which cools them off and travels with them, though the elephant eventually evaporates from the heat. God accidentally stops the flow of time and disrupts space, and the cats play with the time-frozen scenes. Father Time turns time back on, shooting it forward and reversing it, and the cats find themselves back on their boat in the ocean. They drift into a marsh of metallic plants and creatures, coming across the flower that restores Nyāko to normal.
(fonte: Wikipedia)
I, Cat Soup, I really love. Maybe because I love acid and nonsense, perhaps because it is objectively and simply wonderful. There is nothing, at least at first viewing, I vaguely remember something logical, one can sense a plot device in which an anthropomorphized cat witnessing the death of his sister and part in a journey to find an object that can make it back to life. It 's a journey into the metaphors and symbolism: the cat Nyatta contend the soul of his sister with a god of death in a circus, we recognize the figure of God's intent to create and destroy forms; huge water creature explodes and floods the world, then just leave the desert again, the gears of the time you block bringing the world to its origins. Personally I think everyone can find their own meaning to the events, images that take place in Cat Soup, or rather not find a meaning at all. You do not need to see him enjoy this OVA.
Who Should
's recommended for those who love the animation it is experimental or simply curious. But I must make a note: more often than Cat Soup has some disturbing and violent scenes at the expense of appearances "cuddly" of deformed kittens, so it is rather recommended to those who are particularly sensitive to certain images.
Screenshots
