Napping Princess
2017 • Signal.MD
- Format
- MOVIE
- Aired
- 2017
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Signal.MD
- Genres
- Action · Adventure · Drama · Fantasy
This fender and genre-bending film takes us into the not-too-distant machine-driven future. Kokone should be diligently studying for her university entrance exams, but she just can't seem to stay awake. Aside from stealing precious study time, her napping is even more distracting, as it brings on strange dreams with warring machines that hint at family secrets that have been dormant for years. She can't ask her father, a hipster mechanic more talented and artful than his job requires, as he's always busy modifying motorcycles and cars in flights of fancy. What are these visions that lead Kokone at once closer to and farther away from her family? Like all the best anime, the film revels in multilayered fantasy to show how sometimes opposites—waking and dreaming, the past and the future—are far more intertwined than they appear.
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Napping Princess, also known as Ancien and the Magic Tablet, was released in 2017 as a feature-length anime film produced by the studio Signal.MD. Directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama, the film was conceived as a deeply personal project, blending a modern coming-of-age narrative set in Okayama with fantasy elements rooted in the protagonist's dreams. The story explores the relationship between a daughter and her father against the backdrop of the rapid technological shifts in the Japanese automotive industry.
The character designs were created by Satoko Morikawa, with the fantasy sequences designed by Shigeto Koyama to evoke a distinct, whimsical aesthetic that contrasts with the film's grounded reality. Upon its debut, the film was praised for its visual creativity and its poignant take on family legacy, though it drew comparisons to the more established works of Studio Ghibli. It remains a notable entry in Kamiyama's filmography, representing a departure from his usual high-tech political thrillers into more intimate, emotional territory.
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