Forest Of Piano Episode 1

[Rodney Liuzzo]

Forestof Piano is a story that follows Kai Ichinose, a boy who lives in the red light district but escapes at night to play the piano in the forest. Shuhei Amamiya, the grade-school son of a professional pianist, transfers to Moriwaki Elementary, Kai's elementary school. But it doesn't take long before Shuhei is picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest, leading to his meeting with Kai, who seems to be the only one capable of getting sound out of the thought-to-be broken piano. Kai's ability earns him the respect of Shuhei and his music teacher, former master pianist Sosuke Ajino. Both Shuhei and Ajino try to get Kai to take proper piano lessons, but Kai is at first resistant to refining his piano-playing technique. However, after hearing Sosuke play a Chopin piece he just can't seem to play himself, he relents.

Forest of Piano is written and illustrated by Makoto Isshiki. It was published by Kodansha in Japan, who first serialized the series in the seinen manga magazine Young Magazine Uppers from 1998 to 2004, and later in Weekly Morning from 2004 to 2015.[3] The series was published into 26 tankōbon volumes, with the first volume being released on August 6, 1999,[8] and the final volume released on December 22, 2015.[9]

An anime television series adaptation produced by Gaina aired from April 8, 2018, to April 14, 2019, on NHK.[38][4] The first season is directed by Gaku Nakatani. Ryūtarō Suzuki as the series director, Aki Itami and Mika Abe are in charge of series composition, and Sumie Kinoshita is handling character designs. Harumi Fuuki is composing the series' music.[39] The anime was originally listed to air for 12 episodes,[40] but was later announced to air for 24 episodes.[41] The 24 episodes will air in two seasons, with the first season airing from April to July 2018, and the second season airing from January to April 2019.[42] Hiroyuki Yamaga will take over as director for the second season, while the most of the staff and cast will reprise their roles.[43] Netflix have announced that they had acquired exclusive streaming rights for the series worldwide, and simulcast the series in Japan, and released the series globally in September 2018.[44]

The movie adaptation debuted in 9th place at the Japanese box office the week it came out, unusually high for a non-franchise animated film.[46] By the end of the year, it had grossed the equivalent of $1,555,297, ranking 119 on the overall yearly box office chart for Japan.[47] In South Korea, the film played for 50 weeks and grossed the equivalent of $182,884.[48] The film was nominated for the 2008 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.[49]

Piano no Mori: The Perfect World of Kai (ピアノの森, The perfect world of KAI, lit. "Piano's Forest"?), produced by Gainax's Fukushima branch premiered on April 9 2018 on NHK. The anime series will air 12 episodes. Netflix have announced that they had exclusive streaming rights for the series worldwide, and will simulcast the series in Japan, and release the series globally in Q3 2018.

Piano no Mori is a story that follows Kai Ichinose, a boy who lives in the red light district but escapes at night to play the piano in the forest. Shūhei Amamiya, the grade-school son of a professional pianist, transfers to Moriwaki Elementary, Kai's elementary school. But it doesn't take long before Shuhei is picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest, leading to his meeting with Kai, who seems to be the only one capable of getting sound out of the thought-to-be broken piano. Kai's ability earns him the respect of Shuhei and his music teacher, former master pianist Sōsuke Ajino. Both Shuhei and Ajino try to get Kai to take proper piano lessons, but Kai is at first resistant to refining his piano-playing technique. However, after hearing Sosuke play a Chopin piece he just can't seem to play himself, he relents.

The show's first use of a modern song on the player piano happens a little over halfway through the pilot episode. As Maeve is closing up the Mariposa and just before Kissy is taken by William, "Black Hole Sun" plays on the piano.

When we see Dr. Robert Ford's office for the first time, a host in the corner plays "Rverie" by Debussy. The coding Ford had added to the hosts on the first episode was called "Reveries." This was our first introduction to this very important choice of song (but more on that in a bit).

During the episode's opening scenes with Maeve, "A Forest" plays as she struggles to operate regularly. As is often the case with the song selection, the lyrics to this song were relevant to Maeve's inexplicable experiences of seeing her host-daughter and becoming disoriented.

This song first plays as a quiet guitar cover when Dolores and William are walking through Pariah. But it comes back in full force later when Ford is playing the piano in a bar William and Teddy stop into.

As Teddy remembers "Wyatt," we hear the same Debussy tune. This linked Wyatt back to Arnold, and foreshadowed the revelation about Dolores and the real story of what happened to Arnold all those years ago.

One of the few examples of a modern song (with lyrics!) playing on "Westworld" happened on the first season finale. When the pervy tech is preparing to have sex with Hector, "Candy Castle" plays in his earbuds.

The host known as Clementine plays this 1920s piano composition during Logan's private demonstration. Later in the episode, Dolores plays this song at James Delos' party after he requests "anything but f---ing Chopin."

We're introduced to a new world styled after colonial India during the cold open of this episode. An instrumental cover of "Seven Nation Army" plays in the background while two new characters flirt over tea.

An instrumental cover of "C.R.E.A.M." (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) was the soundtrack to Akane's tragic dance for the shogun at the end of the fifth episode of season two. The melody was sampled from The Charmel's 1967 song "As Long As I've Got You."

As Akecheta explored the Mesa for the first time, Djawadi's piano cover of "Heart-Shaped Box" played quietly. A slightly different cover version of this song was also used for the first official season two trailer.

For the first time on the series, an original version of a Radiohead song (complete with lyrics) was used during the final scenes of season two. "Codex" is an important choice, since the song title is taken from the word used to described early forms of books (plus the music video for this particular tune is relevant to "Westworld" themes).

What happens when a brand-new, untested museum-turned-animation studio adapts an award-winning manga right out of the gate? Forest of Piano is the debut full-length series from studio Gaina, formerly known as Fukushima Gainax. Despite the name, Gaina has had no connection to the acclaimed studio behind Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gunbuster, and other seminal anime classics since it broke off in 2015. Nor was it really founded to be a studio, but rather a museum designed to revitalize the Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster.

Kai is, of course, excited to see his old friend again, but when the two enter the same international Chopin competition, Shuhei worries that by helping Kai as children, he created his own insurmountable rival. The last quarter of the series introduces a parade of new characters who show up to play their Chopin pieces and then exit the story.

The piano-playing sequences improve in the latter six episodes; the CG models are still jarring, but their motions are more expressive and offer a few moments of interesting artistic direction. The traditionally animated sequences are still stiff and off-model, though, to the point that some characters look flat-out strange.

Had it chosen something less ambitious for its first major project, Gaina could have become the newest Little Studio That Could. After all, anime fans love to see underdogs doing their best and not quite succeeding. But Forest of Piano is the kind of story that needs to be adapted by an experienced team, as the latest iteration hits nothing but dissonant notes.

Ichinose Kai lives with his prostitute mother in a neighborhood that is notorious for its naughtiness. One day, he stumbles upon a grand piano sitting in a nearby forest and feels compelled to play it.

Without any musical education or training whatsoever, he follows his instincts. Playing the piano allows him to escape from his disadvantageous life for a few minutes or hours. One day, he is discovered by Ajino Sosuke, a formerly famous pianist who now lives quietly as a music teacher at the nearby elementary school. Soon, Kai is enrolled in school, accepts the lessons offered by Ajino, and immediately strikes up a friendship with fellow piano-lover Amamiya Shuhei, the son of a famous pianist.

Over the course of its 24 episodes, split into two seasons, the series explores Kai and Shuhei as their friendship morphs from true friendship into a rivalry that is sometimes conflicted by their competing goals. The first six episodes trace their growing friendship at the age of 12, and then the series jumps to five years later, when they are preparing for, and then competing at, the (real-life) International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw, Poland.

As someone who began taking piano lessons at the age of 7, the series struck a lot of memory chords for me. (For the record, I can still read music, but I confine my keyboard exercises to typing nowadays.) Those first six episodes are very strong, and the three episodes that follow are equally enjoyable.

Cracks in the storytelling begin to appear once the Chopin Competition begins in the tenth episode. All the following episodes revolve around the nuances of the competition itself, and how individual pianists differentiate themselves by expressing their own distinctive style. This is exceedingly difficult for most of us non-musical types to grasp, myself definitely included, and so the filmmakers portray the inner thoughts of the pianists, their teachers, the competition's jury members, and also audience members, in order to explain.

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