Dua Lipa has teamed with retro animators Nostalook for a brand new music video that pays tribute to Naoko Takeuchi’s pioneering magical lady sequence.
English pop star Dua Lipa has a launched a brand new music video for her track “Levitating,” which takes apparent inspiration from the traditional Sailor Moon shojo manga and anime sequence.
The video was launched on Sept. 13 and was produced by retro animation troupe Nostalook, which has garnered a considerable social media following by its paintings and animation impressed by traditional anime from the ’80s and ’90s. The video was directed by Yu Tsubaki, with artwork route and writing by Kenta Orisaka, and Yuta Oeno serving because the video’s producer. The track “Levitating” is off of Dua Lipa’s 2020 album Future Nostalgia, which was launched in 2020. The album made it onto a number of music publications’ “Better of 2020” lists, together with The AV Membership, Pitchfork, NME and Rolling Stone.
🌙 “Levitating” DUA LIPA 🌙
We, “NOSTALOOK” have produced an animation MV for Dua Lipa’s track “Levitating”!
We did our greatest to create a retro and cute environment just like the 80’s anime 🎤💫
Hope you guys benefit from the MV🌈
Thanks on your precious time！ https://t.co/VsQUfnG2lZ— NOSTALOOK (@nostalook7090) September 13, 2021
The music video sees an animated model of Lipa driving into area in a pink convertible, and options fixed references to the iconography, characters, and occasions seen within the traditional Sailor Moon franchise.
Sailor Moon was created by Naoko Takeuchi and was first revealed in Japan in 1991. The sequence obtained an anime adaptation in 1992, which later turned one of many first shojo anime to be localized and broadcast within the West through the mid ’90s. After creating a cult following in syndication, Sailor Moon joined Dragon Ball Z as one of many first anime sequence to be featured in Cartoon Community’s Toonami programming block. The manga has since been localized into 50 completely different international locations and has over 35 million copies in circulation world wide. The sequence has been credited with revitalizing the “magical lady” style and if typically cited as some of the influential anime and manga sequence of all time for its colourful artwork, feminist themes, and memorable forged of characters.
The sequence tells the story of Usagi Tsukino, a lazy middle-school pupil whose life adjustments eternally after she meets Luna, a speaking cat. Luna entrusts Usagi with a magical brooch that permits her to remodel into the hero often known as Sailor Moon, a magical soldier who’s tasked with defending the Earth from threats from outer area and different dimensions. Over the course of her journey, Usagi meets different Sailor Scouts, together with the fiery Rei and the booksmart Ami, who’re additionally able to remodeling into sailor-uniformed heroes with magic powers.
Followers on the lookout for extra traditional Sailor Moon animation can stream the unique 1992 anime sequence on Hulu. The anime sequence was rebooted in 2014 with Sailor Moon Crystal, which is a extra trustworthy adaptation of Takeuchi’s unique manga. Crystal is on the market for streaming on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
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