The director of Mushoku Tensei revealed interesting facts about the production

The portal AnimeNewsNetwork he interviewed the director Manabu Okamoto and the president of Tie studio, Toshiya ootomowho are involved in the production of the animated adaptation of the light novels Mushoku Tensei: reincarnation without work ((Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu). The detailed interview contained some curiosities about the production.

• Rudy has a perverted side and an imperfect personality. How did you strike the balance between portraying his mistakes and turning into an understanding character worthy of support?
  • This character has an opposite personality: a vulgar side that is incredibly difficult to sympathize with, and a more normal and conventional side that is incredibly difficult to sympathize with.. These negative traits are part of his identity so he can’t get rid of them, but we consider portraying him in a way that doesn’t make viewers feel uncomfortable.
• What does the name Studio Bind mean?
  • When I got independent, I thought of all the anime I’d been working on, and When it came to what was important to me, I thought it was the connection between people. From this meaning of bonds and the union of people the study name “bind” arose.

• This is the first series from Studio Bind. What about Mushoku Tensei that makes it a representative job for the team?
  • What impresses me is the first promotional video for Mushoku Tensei. When you’re doing an anime, you need a lot of design materials, but we made the first video without anything that comes close to the materials you would normally use for an anime. We didn’t even have any character design or stage arts accessories. Manabu Okamoto, Shingo Fujii, Ryo Imamura and the staff involved at the time the studio was founded produced this footage. It’s the first that Studio Bind released to the world, so it’s very memorable.
• (To Okamoto) What was your first impression of the original work?
  • It had a lot of vulgar and uncomfortable parts, but in the end I thought it was a top notch story. There was a part on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website called “Aisha’s Bow” that has now been removed because it was controversial. In it, the protagonist can finally see who he was in his previous life, but to say it in words would reduce his entire reborn life to that one thing. Because this story was in the form of an online novel, a sacred reason that the hand of a commercial publisher could not reach, it could depict the life of a single person with such wealth. I already had a lot of fans by the time I read it, so I felt more pressured to create an anime that could do justice to the story..

• What challenges did you envision when you first took the job of director of this work to create a visual adaptation of the original work? Did the animated product meet these expectations?
  • I heard rumors that many other companies were trying to get Mushoku Tensei projects off the ground before starting this current project.. However, it was never made into an animated adaptation.. When I read the original story, I thought so There can be several reasons for this::
    • It’s too vulgar.
    • The story is terribly difficult to organize in the structure of a television anime.
    • The Japanese animation scene is saturated with the isekai genre.
  • The second reason was a particularly significant problem: how much the television anime could cover. Covering all of the starting material would make it so long that it becomes impossible. If you were just getting started, the storyline would be poorHence, it would be difficult to highlight its formidable qualities as an anime. The passage of time is also fast and the locations are constantly changing. So, In the end, it takes a ridiculous amount of design materials. There were a lot of problems. I could easily imagine these problems, but when we actually went into production the difficulties easily exceeded my imagination.

Fountain: ANN

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