‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic
In an era when it has become far more common to expect a sausage party of shonen anime adaptations of a beloved manga series, with discourse over powerscaling and faithfulness (or lack thereof) taking up all the air, The Ribbon Hero arrives as a refreshing welcome curveball. The lively Netflix original shojo film shows that reimagining—rather than dogmatically retreading—the work of legendary Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka is a road worth traveling. The Ribbon Hero, directed by Yūki Igarashi and animated by studio OUTLINE (Star Wars: Visions), boldly goes where few anime projects—save for Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto—have dared.
- ▪In an era when it has become far more common to expect a sausage party of shonen anime adaptations of a beloved manga series, with discourse over powerscaling and faithfulness (or lack thereof) taking up all the air, The Ribbon Hero arrives
- ▪The lively Netflix original shojo film shows that reimagining—rather than dogmatically retreading—the work of legendary Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka is a road worth traveling.
- ▪The Ribbon Hero, directed by Yūki Igarashi and animated by studio OUTLINE (Star Wars: Visions), boldly goes where few anime projects—save for Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto—have dared.
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In an era when it has become far more common to expect a sausage party of shonen anime adaptations of a beloved manga series, with discourse over powerscaling and faithfulness (or lack thereof) taking up all the air, The Ribbon Hero arrives as a refreshing welcome curveball. The lively Netflix original shojo film shows that reimagining—rather than dogmatically retreading—the work of legendary Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka is a road worth traveling. The Ribbon Hero, directed by Yūki Igarashi and animated by studio OUTLINE (Star Wars: Visions), boldly goes where few anime projects—save for Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto—have dared.
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