More
than 100 One Piece shorts have been made
to date, around 30 of them by Shinobu Yaguchi
and Takuji Suzuki, the pioneers of the form.
This programme features 14 hand-picked examples
(seven each by Yaguchi and Suzuki) and they're
an unmitigated delight.
Each
is a vignette of social embarrassment and
absurdist humour. Many have a sweet and
heterosexually romantic premise which comes
under siege from perverse cruelty, gay sex
and anarchic violence. To describe any of
them in detail would be to spoil some of
the fun, but highlights include Suzuki's
bisexual triangle musical on a riverbank.
Tony
Rayns
by
Yaguchi
and Suzuki