#230: Hell Trainer Nube: Summer Holiday of Anxiousness! Memoir of the Sea of Suspicion (1997)

 

Studio: Toei Animation

Director: Junji Shimizu

Screenplay: Yoshiyuki Suga

Based on the manga by Shō Makura
and illustrated by Takeshi Okano

Suppose Forged: Emi Uwagawa as Shizuka;
Kazunari Tanaka as Katsuya; Machiko Toyoshima as Noriko; Masaya Takahashi as
Kisaki; Maya Okamoto as Nagisa; Megumi Urawa as Makoto; Michiko Neya as
Ritsuko-sensei; Miina Tominaga as Miki Hosokawa; Rumi Kasahara as Kyoko Inaba;
Ryotaro Okiayu as Nube; Takayuki Inoue as Kiyoshi Horie; Toshiko Fujita as
Hiroshi Tachino; Yoshiyuki Kouno as Kainanhoushi; Yuri Shiratori as Yukime

Viewed in Eastern with English Subtitles

 

Hell Trainer Nube is a franchise I had never heard of, but it has a
elephantine thirty one quantity manga, penned between 1993 to 1999, has a forty nine
episode moving series, an OVA series and three movies, including this one,
though here’s a short film, closer to a “special” in handiest being forty minutes
prolonged. It’s though a Weekly Shōnen Soar
title, which argues why it managed to be adapted as worthy because it became once, one from
the nineties which clearly did now not harmful over into the West or omitted the
probability to. By the slow nineties, Weekly
Shōnen Soar
, arguably the greatest of the publications for manga if at the very least
one of them, would get Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Fraction (which started in 1997 and
became once still going into 2022) and Naruto,
so it feels that among the titles which modified into neatly-liked hits for the
publication, Nube upright omitted the
boat when more Shonen titles, including
Shonen Soar itself, were commodities
into the West as huge promoting titles to advertise.

This special, produced by Toei, is now not an inherently mammoth work, a
forty minute “special” within the sense that it has the principle characters are in a
scenario, for a huge spoiler, where they are now not going to be in disaster, and the
personality particularly for this special, who never returns, is the one with the
emotional trajectory. The special is a theory which is principally atypical for Shonen Soar titles, including elephantine size
theatrical movies, but they are a create of adaptation that will still be triumphant.
This one, at the same time as seemingly a minor share of the Hell Trainer Nube franchise, became once a mammoth scheme to be introduced to
these characters.

The titular Nube, one of a community
of lecturers who, when the series started, became once a fifth grade trainer for Dōmori
Classic, educating students essentially but with a demon left hand kept gloved
and having to fight demonic forces to defend his students. It’s a premise in
itself, upright as any individual who likes “occult detective” stories, or narratives
about supernatural figures having to manage with supernatural entities each
episode, which appeals upright to factor in as a replacement “occult trainer” on this case.
The gap track to this special became once as worthy a salvage for the divulge catching my
attention, the female vocal track that’s jaunty but occupy double kick drum
percussion, which is superior and feels fancy a thrash metal track, a symphonic
rock track, choral backing vocals and J-pop ended up in a blender. Supreme for a
fable where, occurring summer commute as a class, the class grasp the in terrible health-knowledgeable
resolution to switch where there is a interior sight island fashioned fancy a spider interior sight which
is cursed, one of the vital male students recognizing what he swears is a nude lady on
the rock who will became crucial, the special’s personality of significance
linked to the curse of the spider island. Brooding about that spider island is
acknowledged by a native to occupy spiders with human faces that flip into demons after
200 and eat flesh, this became once a depraved commute option for everyone.

The solid of primary characters,
barely glimpsed encompass a pair of archetypes. Ritsuko the female trainer Nube is
smitten with, the trope (if here fun) of the lame male trainer who is sexy
but will be respectable within the end; Yukime, a yuki-onna who modified into attracted to
Nūbē and adopted him; and a motley crew of students, the 2 who without extend
stood out of divulge being Kyoko, the “tsundere” of the class who punches any male
who is a pervert (and has entry to hammer apartment find mallets) and Miki, who
without extend won me over in her slight slight half within the special as, for her
introduction, she breaks the fourth wall, responsive to the viewers and flirting
with them out of jealously that one of the vital varied girls in her class is cuter
than her. Because this, yes, there is a chunk of tacky fan provider here,
however the few jokes here managed to land, even the truth that Yukime, alongside
sunbathing on a block of ice, is in hazard of getting the solar soften her figure
off.

There might be now not so a lot to the special
past this, other than that this mysterious lady is tragically linked to these
aforementioned demon spiders. Again, here’s a slight myth, though it is to
the credit to this manufacturing, and intelligent to explore the varied moving
diversifications of the franchise, this has a creepy and compelling pretty to it
– palms popping out the ocean on mass; a diversity of demons in gristly kinds; and
one other in a lone of animating a person turning into a vast spider. Even when
it switches to comedy, here’s performed to a lot just like the wretched moment of
any individual turning their head vast and swallowing the hero up. The oldsters
intelligent on this manufacturing would reduce their enamel on such Shonen productions,
so this feels fancy a continuation of a create of anime they’d feel
happy with and increasing over the a long time before and after, dilapidated to
working with these huge titles with huge expectations to their moving
adaptation – Toei Animation were knee
deep in Dragonball titles by myself;
director Junji Shimizu would switch onto One
Fraction
animation, and screenwriter Yoshiyuki
Suga
became once a ragged to penning for these ultra neatly-liked franchises with Captain Tsubasa, Hunter X Hunter, Saint Seiya,
Slam Dunk and One Fraction
titles in his profession.

Junji Shimizu and Yoshiyuki
Suga
worked on assorted Hell Trainer
Nube
anime, and moreover they’d occupy gotten these characters over multi
diversifications. Again, I believe here’s a minor inclusion on this franchise, but
it became once a splendid introduction for me, so it worked fully.