Shaded Hearts

Zitat von »Axel«

Bei den Pinguinen dachte ich eigentlich immer, dass sie vielleicht auch symbolisch für irgendetwas stehen... insbesondere, da sie ja offenbar Markenzeichen besagter Organisation sind, über die man nichts weiß. und diese roten, erinnerungslöschenden Pinguinbälle... wus. Aber ich assoziiere nichts Passendes mit Pinguinen. Vielleicht sind sie ja wirklich nur Maskottchen. .- .

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Q: In this book, we will also publish your conversation with Mizuki Tsujimura, where you go very deep into the themes of “Mawaru Penguindrum." Here, we would like to ask you about “Penguindrum" from another point of view. Originally, you had also been talking about a “Penguin Anime", so we would like to start from the penguins. Is that an animal you like?
A: Of course, I made them appear because I like them, but there are several other reasons. First of all, my career began at Toei Animation. There, we were taught that it is necessary to have small animals aimed at kids appear. That has sunken deep into me. I can’t do without.
Q: I see. Penguins are really great animals. Dogs, cats, or rabbits are animals you can keep, feel attached to and that are seen as cute. But you cannot keep penguins, and even though they seem far away, everybody loves them…
A: Penguins are mascot-like character throughout generations. The reason for that is probably because they are kind of “animals from over there." Dogs and cats belong to our daily life, and most other pets apart from them are also mammals, but penguins are birds. However, they don’t seem like birds. They dive in water. Don’t they seem like a special “Penguin" family of animals? And isn’t this feeling “They can’t go anywhere" a good one? It’s like “I can’t fly, but I can’t stay underwater forever either. Just where do I belong?" (laughs)
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But in old kids’ anime and manga, there were many no-good characters. They are “useless", but I long for them nowadays. I’m sure there are things where “it’s fine with them just being here." Oh, and I also often get the question “What are the penguins?"…
Q: What are the penguins? (laugs)
A: Yeah (laughs.) It’s something I’ve been thinking recently, but they surely are something like “life." I don’t mean that in the sense of the siblings’ lives changing appearance. More like… how should I put it, live’s passion, glow, something like that. It feels as if something like “Life’s Outline" was pushed out of the siblings and taken form. Maybe they are something where “it’s fine with them just being here."