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The Psychedelic Visuals in Mind Game

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  "YES!" - God I've been really into the works of  Masaaki Yuasa lately ever since watching Kaiba, before then I've only checked out "The Tatami Galaxy" and some episodes of  "Devilman Crybaby" but with me now getting back into anime I thought it would be good to check out Yuasa's other work. One of them being his debut film "Mind Game" and man! it so fucking sick. There's alot of stuff to talk about in the film like the way it conveys its themes of be apart of life no matter who you are or the development of the film and how Shinichi Watanabe was chosen as the music producer for this film but I'll just focus on the visuals for today and how creative it is. This is from the same film yes. First we'll talk about the odd mixture of live action and animation in the first half and its purpose, it may seems incredibly off putting at first (which it is since this section was supposed to be fully live action) but it serves as a d...