I'll have to look into how and where I can buy them!
Wow, I didn't realize Human Lost was animated by Polygon - I actually love their unique style of CG graphics, and Knights of Sidonia, Ajin, and Blame! are all top favorites of mine. Human Lost has been in my Save For Later queue at Rightstuf for a good while, but now that I found this out I will definitely add it to my next anime order. Thanks for the review!Human Lost (Japanese) Film
I very much regret not taking the opportunity to see this on the big screen at SLA 2019, as it would be quite the thrill to see on the big screen. I’m a bit conflicted on if this is Polygon’s strongest work because while it’s a great visual work, BLAME! is also an excellent visual piece that may only just tie with Human Lost on the strength of the 4K HDR presentation available on Netflix. I’ve been following Polygon’s work since I first watched Knights of Sidonia in 2015 and honestly, thank god they got better at animating human characters, I love KoS but wow, the animation on the characters is really rocky now, something I picked up on as I rewatched it over Christmas and is really shown up because of how well realised all the characters are here. While it’s aged, KoS still hasn’t a great visual flare to it, in no small part thanks to it being adapted from a Tsutomu Nihei manga. The same can’t be said about their Godzilla trilogy, visually competent sure but monotonous to the point of being a bit painful to watch. So... yeah... I think Human Lost sits comfortably in their catalogue of good work, now all I have left to watch is Ajin. I can’t make a comparison to the source, No Longer Human by Osamu Dezai, as I haven’t got round to reading it yet, I had intended to read it before the movie hit UK home media but it is it what is.
The sound design was something that really jumped out at me, it’s very nicely balanced. The soundtrack hasn’t really left much impact but the ED was performed by m-flo and just like against all gods, which was used as the eighth ED for Black Clover, it’s a god damn banger. The animation in some fast movements is pretty janky and I don’t know if that’s just the usual problem that appears with CG, despite most of Polygon’s work being fairly smooth all things considered or if it’s due to the UK/US release being encoded at 24fps rather than 23.976fps like the Japanese release. Sorry this has been a really long post.
Have you ever seen the uncensored episodes of Maze and the infamous "Lost" ova? The series that was released in the us by Software Sculptures used the censored broadcast version. The unedited version was only released on laserdisc, somebody evidently found the laserdiscs and subbed then. I found them on the internet quite a while ago and downloaded them. These unedited episodes are quite a bit raunchier than the edited broadcast version.
