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The audience said it was more interesting than "New Altman".

Recently, the film "New Altman", planned and written by Hideaki Uno, was launched on the streaming platform, and Amazon Prime Video, which has exclusive overseas broadcast rights, also brought an unexpected surprise to the audience: without prior notice, Hideaki Uno broadcast "the DAICON FILM version of the returned Altman" made when he was a student.

DAICON FILM, the predecessor of animation company GAINAX, is an independent film production group organized by Hideaki Ueno, Hiroshi Yamaga and Takumi Akai when they were students.

DAICON FILM made an urgent announcement on Twitter, calling the film a "subversive, legendary work." before the group was formed, Hideaki Ueno, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Hyomi Akai produced the opening short film "DAICON III OPENING ANIMATION" (commonly known as DAICON3) for the 20th Japanese sci-fi conference in 1981.

The Japanese sci-fi conference is an annual event for Japanese sci-fi enthusiasts, which has been held 61 years since 1962. There are different awards to recognize people who have made important contributions to the sci-fi world. Many familiar works, such as Blade Runner, Valley of the Wind, leap to the Top, and Liu Cixin's three-body Ⅰ and three-body Ⅱ have won nebula awards at the conference.

The opening ceremony short film produced by Hideaki Anno and others was widely praised by the attendees, who influenced several people to set up DAICON FILM and produced a new short film "DAICON IV OPENING ANIMATION" (commonly known as DAICON4) for the 22nd sci-fi conference in Japan, with a further improvement in quality.

DAICON3 and DAICON4 protagonists, actually the same character before and after growing up, these two short films describe the encounter with the protagonist girl and a variety of science fiction characters, including a large number of citations and tribute, the performance quality is astonishingly high, is a work full of fanatic interest. It has played a great role in the promotion of GAINAX in the future, and it is still a legendary work that fans love to talk about.

DAICON4 clip in addition to these two animated short films, DAICON FILM also produced three parody features during the event, namely, "Patriotic Battle Japan", "Fast Jay Weather" and the Amazon Prime Video broadcast of "Altman back from DAICON FILM".

The models in the DAICON FILM version of Altman are all made of paper, which perfectly recreates the urban scenery of Osaka, and the plot is as serious as the original Altman. It caused a huge response after it was broadcast on DAICON4, and encouraged other amateur creators at the same time. Hideaki Ueno once said that "this work is his masterpiece in his spare time", and it is also the origin of his creation.

Hideaki Ueno starred in Altman with Yuya's permission, and GAINAX released the DAICON FILM version of the returning Altman limited DVD in 2001. After that, the film briefly met with the audience several times, but mostly in exhibitions and film festivals. The quality of the film was restored in 2021, and Japanese television media reported on "Hideaki Ueno" that some of the pictures were released.

This time on Amazon Prime Video, it is the full length of the film. For this reason, many Japanese viewers rejoiced that "the DVD was too expensive at that time, and now it's like a dream to see such a high-quality picture on the Internet."to be honest, I think it's more interesting than the New Altman."

There are also netizens who hope to take this opportunity to repair more works.

In response, DAICON FILM officials say they are currently repairing the two short films, DAICON3 and DAICON4.

But with countless unauthorized characters and music involved, I'm afraid it's harder to release these two short films than to fix them.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Qimu cake

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