ビューティフル・ワールド

BEAUTIFUL WORLD

MUSIC

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
1
RELEASE
December 2, 2014
LENGTH
3 min

DESCRIPTION

A music video directed by Tsurumaki Kazuya to promote the movies of Rebuild of Evangelion and the main music theme, "Beautiful World." The video includes both new animation and animation from the film.

CAST

Asuka Langley Souryuu
Shinji Ikari
Rei Ayanami
Kaworu Nagisa
Mari Makinami Illustrious

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

Alufei
60/100
Neat for fans of Eva and Utada plus a hold off people waiting for the last film, but nothing more than that.

'Beautiful World' is a music video directed by Tsurumaki Kazuya and sung by Utada Hikaru.

Tsurumaki served as an assistant director under Hideaki Anno in Gainax's landmark series Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which role he handled production, art director and setting assistant for some episodes. In 1997, he directed episode 25', the first half of the cinematic conclusion to the Evangelion series, The End of Evangelion. In 2000, Tsurumaki officially made his debut as a full-fledged director with the six-part OVA series, FLCL. In 2004 he directed the hit sequel to Gunbuster called Aim for the Top 2! or Diebuster.

Utada is best known by international audiences for writing and producing four theme-song contributions to Square Enix and Disney's collaborative video game series Kingdom Hearts: "Simple and Clean", "Sanctuary", "Don't Think Twice" and "Face My Fears". <3

The Song in question is based on the ending theme for Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. As for the video itself, it uses clips from the first 3 movies of the rebuild franchise. It uses city scenery along side cuts to stills of the characters. The characters themselves are juxtaposed with those same buildings and finally quick cuts to scenes of the movie. These cuts involve most of the main cast members and their interaction around Shinj. Presumably used to link with the music's lyrics as to why said images were chosen.

Even as a fan of Utada Hikaru's music, thanks to Kingdom Hearts, the song itself is only half of the original itself. So if listening to the song was your only take away, then you are out of luck.
I will say for a positive that even if most of the images were just reused scenes, the placement of them was effective. In terms of the conjuncture with the songs themes and lyrics with the themes of the movie. Otherwise the main use of this was for promotion of not only the last films for fans, but to be showcased at an MTV Japan event to promote said movie and franchise.

Harmless is a word I would use. Neat for fans of Eva and Utada and a small piece to hold off people waiting for the last film, but absolutely little to nothing past the 1st or 2nd viewing for those unfamiliar with both.

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SpiritChaser
65/100
An AMV directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki. An amusing approach from someone who worked on this since the original.
Anime content comes in all forms. I feel even an AMV can say something. An individual's visual interpretation put into a video like this fascinates me because everyone plays the anime differently in their heads in regards to what it means to them, what were the most important moments to them, the most important characters, etc. An AMV, when done meaningfully and well done, can say a lot about a person because of this.

Before the Evangelion community came after me for my thoughts on Thrice Upon A Time, my only real memory from watching the first movie from the Rebuild series was tearing up at the end when Beautiful World played. It was a beautiful moment I cannot remember the reasons as to why anymore.

As someone who does a lot of editing, I was really curious to see how Kazuya Tsurumaki would put this together since Evangelion is a big part of his life. The video starts off with the sun rising, and ends with it turning to night. The symbolic meaning this had to me is that it is to symbolize the start of a new era for Evangelion. Clearly, the era of the Rebuilds. The sun sets, and who knows what new Evangelion product will emerge the next day.

The skills here are far beyond my own, such as the editing with the characters in the buildings. Something else I found interesting is how the lyrics of the song were used. One example is how Shinji and Rei are "communicating" through the editing and the lyrics. This gave me the idea that I need to be more creative myself.

It's already a short entry as an AMV. It's a shame this doesn't use the entire song. As it continues, the lyrics are constantly shown through the perspective of the characters, hinting at the way Shinji feels towards Asuka and Kaworu as well.

I think it's very easy for people to misunderstand AMVs like this. An AMV is more than just footage played over music. There is an attempt to communicate something to the viewer. It is a sort of unique presentation.

I don't even watch AMVs that much. It's rare. Still, I am influenced by some from when I was a kid, such as the Future Trunks promo from my old Dragon Ball Z VHS tape , and the Pokémon The Movie 2000 trailer that would play at the end of that VHS tape. The Trunks promo taught me to try to edit more creatively, fast but not nonsensically, build up moments, and to try experimenting with trying to convey emotion. But it's only the beginning, and I have so much more to learn. The Pokémon trailer showed me the importance of the use of music in an AMV, as well as to try to create this cinematic, grandiose approach with the presentation. I played both tapes over and over as kid, taking in this influence, until both VHS tapes were ruined.
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