Tetsurō Araki Interview: Bubble
Warning! Minor spoilers ahead for the Netflix anime movie Bubble!
If the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming anime film Bubblewasn’t enough of a clue, the storyline and overall tone diverge a great deal from Tetsurō Araki's previous work. Before directing his newest film by WIT Studio, Araki burst into the anime scene early on with his adaptation of Death Note, which starred a protagonist most fans would more accurately describe as an antagonist who sought to build a new world order under his twisted ideals of justice. Araki would later explore worlds much farther along the dystopian spectrum, with terrifying monsters roaming desolate post-apocalyptic wastelands in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress and Attack On Titan.
In Araki’s Bubble, set to premiere worldwide April 28 on Netflix, many of these themes and settings are still present — but they’re definitely not the main focus nor are they portrayed as severely. Bubbleexplores Hibiki and a group of orphaned teens who use the remains of Tokyo as the perfect playground for parkour competitions, the city having been ravaged by gravity-defying bubbles and terrifying maelstroms known as Spiderwebs or Antlion Pits. But Hibiki’s life soon changes dramatically when he is saved by a mysterious girl whom he later names Uta.
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Screen Rantwas lucky enough to virtually “sit down” with Araki along with a translator to discuss his partial shift into this new type of realm where these darker themes and images from Attack On Titan and Death Note serve more as vestiges than main drivers.
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