Comments on: Spring and Chaos Review - 73/100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/01/05/spring-and-chaos-review-73100/ An anime blog covering a large variety of series, both popular and underrated. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Wyrdwad http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/01/05/spring-and-chaos-review-73100/#comment-5683 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:08:51 +0000 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/01/05/spring-and-chaos-review-73100/#comment-5683 Spring and Chaos ("Kenji no Haru," or "Kenji's Spring" in Japanese) is indeed Miyazawa's autobiography, though obviously it was heavily edited and adapted when they made it into an anime. I think the reason you didn't like it as much as the other two Miyazawa anime you've seen is that both Galactic Railroad and Gauche stayed *MUCH* truer to the source material (like, COMPLETELY true to it, without even the slightest change, save for the random anthropomorphizing of the characters in Galactic Railroad!)... whereas Spring and Chaos was adapted very liberally, and owes just as much to the screenwriter and director as to the original author. An interesting note, too, from the DVD liner notes for Spring and Chaos: Apparently, Miyazawa HATED cats. That's why the character designers for both this and Galactic Railroad decided to make everyone a cat. I'm not sure how that makes any sense, but that's what the liner notes say! ;) -Tom Spring and Chaos (”Kenji no Haru,” or “Kenji’s Spring” in Japanese) is indeed Miyazawa’s autobiography, though obviously it was heavily edited and adapted when they made it into an anime. I think the reason you didn’t like it as much as the other two Miyazawa anime you’ve seen is that both Galactic Railroad and Gauche stayed *MUCH* truer to the source material (like, COMPLETELY true to it, without even the slightest change, save for the random anthropomorphizing of the characters in Galactic Railroad!)… whereas Spring and Chaos was adapted very liberally, and owes just as much to the screenwriter and director as to the original author.

An interesting note, too, from the DVD liner notes for Spring and Chaos: Apparently, Miyazawa HATED cats. That’s why the character designers for both this and Galactic Railroad decided to make everyone a cat. I’m not sure how that makes any sense, but that’s what the liner notes say! ;)

-Tom

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