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CHAO MOVIE REVIEW
Maciej Kur is back and he is once again covering the Annecy Animation Festival in France! Spidermike joins him to take a look at some of the wild new animated films from around the world coming out soon. From the innocent and unsuspecting country of Japan comes Yasuhiro AOKI’s first full-length feature ChaO that answers the essential question: What if The Little Mermaid really happened but she didn’t turn human at the end and now years later we have to deal with a futuristic society where human and fish live side-by-side. Stefan, a young worker at ship building company, gets his business into trouble. He gets approached by ChaO, a gigantic pink fish who is in love with him. She’s cute, she’s awkward and also happens to be the daughter of king Neptune (whose design is oddly enough inspired more by Chris Hemsworth then Jason Momoa). In order to save his company, Stefan is pressured to marry ChaO and we follow their romance through having to deal with paparazzi, gigantic robots and godlike in-laws. It’s the most Japanese slice-of-life movie yet!
DIRECTED BY: Yasuhiro AOKI
STARRING: Ouji Suzuka, Anna Yamada, Yūichirō Umehara, Ryota Yamasato, Kavka Shishido, Cookie!, Kenta Miyake, Shunsei Ota, Anna Tsuchiya
YOUR REVIEWERS
Maciej Kur (Infestation)
Maciej Kur is a Polish comic and film script writer, director and reviewer, and decidedly the biggest fan and most loyal supporter of Oneofus.net. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a master’s degree and the Academy of Film and Television. Co-creator of the comic book series Dollicious and Emilka Sza (with Magdalena Kania ) and Lil i Put, (with Piotr Bednarczyk ) and many others. Awarded in 2014 for a comic book in the spirit of Janusz Christa and awarded for “Złoty Puchar” in 2023. He wrote scripts for new comic books in the Polish cult series “Kayko and Kokosh”, as well as episodes of an animated series based on it (available on Netflix). He wrote for many other shows including “Kicia Kocia” (Kitty Kotty), “Pompik the Bison”, “Pucio”, “Hip-Hip and Hurra” and the upcoming animated movies “The Shrew of Destiny” and “Tytus, Romek and A’tomek”. He also directed a documentary about Polish animation legend “Witold Giersz”. Big lover of the art of animation and comic books.
Michael Riojas (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
The man with the ever-changing nicknames. Born in Austin, Riojas was rocketed to Del Rio, Texas, a literal Smallville. In his youth, he was bitten by a radioactive… okay, look. Mike is not very good at this whole “talking about himself” thing. But he has been so obsessed with comics, video games, and anime since childhood- that if one has to choose between listening to Joe Quesada or Mike over any obscure Spider-Man trivia, they go to him (or, at least Martin Thomas once said so). He is also a big fan of “Ghostbusters” (he even owns his own jumpsuit and two, that’s right, TWO proton packs!), collects toys and video games, and will defend “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” if provoked. He lives in Austin with his beloved Dachshund-Maltese and trusted sidekick, Dean. He can also be heard on RageSelect. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram.
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