Tokyo OnlyPic

Imaginative and stunning parody on the media insanity surrounding the Olympic Games. This project used all the variations and techniques which animation art has on offer. For all this variation, Mashima asked a dozen other animators, among them three from outside Japan, to make contributions.
The structure of the film is that of a news show and the news flashes and reports have been made by various artists: Takanobu Mizuno, Bill Plympton, Keiko Sootome, Toru Hosokawa, Takashi Taniguchi, Richard Fenwick, Tetsuro Kodama, AC-bu, Ignacio Ferreras, Yutaro Sawada and Hiroyuki Nakao. The makers do not restrict themselves to existing sports or existing beings - sometimes it looks as if they come from another planet.
Mashima is also the maker of Ski Jumping Pairs: Road to Torino 2006, a worldwide hit (500,000 DVDs sold), and his latest film is already being eagerly announced on Amazon.com. Should Mashima make another Olympic sport satire after Ski Jumping Pairs and this film, then he will certainly go down in history as the founder of a unique genre: the hilarious sport-report caricature. The incomplete film was already shown during a guerrilla screening in Sapporo, Japan, and the Holland Animation Film Festival also screened a special edition, but here the film is at last being shown for the first time in its final form. Welcome to the OnlyPic Games. (GjZ)