https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/839734152470724661/1124783801772539914/Inuoh1080x6083679573502.png There are going to be reviews out there that compare InuOh to Heike Monogatari and this is on basis of source material alone. Both are based on the Heike periods of Japan both have watercolor styling and both are done by production studio Science SARU. These reviews are wrong. InuOh has more in common with a streetside concert or a friends house party gig. It has more in common with a small venue and a loud local band thats a few notches too loud It has more in common with the street musician you pass by and almost think about giving a couple bucks. Its a psychosexual selfactualization amidst a culturally stagnant society where putting your axe to the grindstone everyday for a shave you dont like is the only thing you do because youve been told to stay alive your whole life. Staying alive what does that mean? It means to reveling in the endless passion of your feats honing every ounce of spirit you can feel leaving your body grabbing them and forcing them back into a purified essence that is true life. Not establishment but selfactualization. InuOhs rejection of normalcy comes in multiple ways. The rejection of gender the rejection of stagnation and the rejection of mundanity all at once. The rejection of a onesizefitsall cookie cutter marries the acceptance of the everchanging mold of our being. Here we are. You and me. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/839734152470724661/1124783802032603207/FZpzbnIXwAI913u4049913916.jpg No matter how bigarmed or demonfaced or otherwise indescribably ugly you are you must realize you are the only iteration of you that truly exists. Flaunt your bigass grossass nastyass arm because people adore that. Is it normal? Far from it and far be it for you to hide it any longer What happens when society takes that same arm away from you? You grow it back. I hear its out of this world. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/839734152470724661/1124783802229731428/inuohtrailersocial824411405.jpg Organized society is old news. As long as we love others and love ourselves that is true wealth. So says the overwhelming spirit of InuOh. InuOh is a ballad to the soul a strike to the veins and a performance of life. Why embrace tradition when you can embrace yourself instead? Everyone wants to be somebody then embody that somebody. BE grisly BE disheveled BE unsightly but above all BE unreasonably you. Dare to be darkness in the light. Hey you Are you seeing this? Yeah Im seeing it too https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/839734152470724661/1124783802460405890/Inuohmoviestill492920079.jpg This is our moment. Let it never be anything else than this. Let it never be the future or the past let it be now. InuOh laughs in the face of rules mocking repeats them aloud chews them up and spits them out. Its not so much a portrayal of mans evolution as much as men have always been this. Not just men but conscious entities the first of the globe built with purpose and drive. We are the first creatures we know to completely wallow into ourselves. This world is an endless source of beauty that resounds against every establishment every rule weve ever known and its irrevocably tragic how many of us will never realize our full potential. Those are the bounds of society meant for guidelines but taken as rules taken as the status quo. You are never taught to be yourself or to try something outside the box you must discover that all by yourself. That is InuOh. A creature born of something some demonic force not meant to exist but that exists anyways and must cope with its reason for life. For InuOh it is a life of performance. For you that may be something different. However theres always that looming ceiling above our heads. Conformity may want you to be something else it may want you to revel in the disgusting morphing unsightly parts of yourself and critique them instead of acknowledging the unique beauty of you as no one else can be who you are. The combination the sum of what makes you you is something that will never be replaced to such a specific degree so why care about fitting any mold? Wear makeup. Dance in the street. Scream your heart out. Sing dance and go wild. / Everything is fiction. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/839734152470724661/1124784378506129418/Screenshot20230701at1.31.23PM.png They will clip your branches you will bleed it will hurt to push forward. But keep playing. Playing is the ultimate rebellion. Everything is fiction so act accordingly. If this film is a closing ceremony for Yuasa there is not a better note to end on. It is what hes always done broke the norm stretched the envelope rejected tradition. At the same time while it may be a goodbye to himself its a hello to the new in the same breath. Its a passing of the baton to new talent to a promise of the future whilst acknowledging the past in a single brush stoke. Art is never over. InuOh portrays the Heike as humanity and InuOh themself as its vassal in form of an extravagant creative. Those who embrace themselves embrace the world. Let it never be otherwise. Let us perform our song. Here we are. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/839734152470724661/1124783802695303221/inuohstill021024x5122055651040.jpg if you only perform it once let it be yours. its not all glory there has to be pain. there must be. always. but thats okay. because you did indeed perform. because you did that yourself. and because you did it once youll do it for eternity. climb on the back of history and write yourself into it.