Adam by Eve: A live in Animation

Not sure why the low rating, this is a long form animated music compilation. It's really good, loved watching it. Watched it twice and will probably watch it again, and again while cleaning/painting.

I honestly didn't expect anything and decided to watch it on spec. I'm very glad I did. To cover the basics: 1) The music was excellent being primarily a progressive Japanese pop with a side dish of jazz. This is a musical genera that has something for everyone. 2) The live action, CGI, and grease pencil anime were top notch, likely shot, designed, and rendered in 4K. It was spectacular eye candy and beautifully edited. It flowed wonderfully with the music. 3) The live action and characters were skillfully intertwined into the CGI and anime. They delivered exactly what the story needed.

A younger audience might not appreciate this or even care. This feature took me back to the days of movies built around music in the late 60's and early 70's. It was typified by stream of consciousness action combined with music. This genera had a less than complimentary name. Still, this movie fit into that category beautifully. "Adam by Eve: A live in Animation" can be considered to be similar to a mashup of "Yellow Submarine", "Head", and "2000 Motels". There were huge similarities. However, 50 years makes a huge difference to the technology used to make these production and is telling. These older films do not come close to the quality exemplified by this production. If you are expecting some concise storyline then you can forget it. This is about the experience of the music combined with the visuals. If you can shut your eyes and listen to Pink Floyd while letting your mind wander then you will have a complete understanding of this entertainment genera. If you can't, you will never be capable of understanding it.

Well done Eve. I thoroughly enjoyed this production and very much welcome this long overdue return of this type of musical and visual entertainment. I was thoroughly blow away.

I don't really get why this is getting "low scores" on every platform i checked. Maybe its because its ambiguity, or just because it tries to deliver something in a really strange and different way. But what I actually see, is how this short film really exhibits a good display of music combined with astonishing animation, art visuals and and a short and simple plot line that functions as connector to all the diverse songs and themes.

So yeah, maybe I love eve just too much, but i consider this as a really interesting form for an artist to show their great pieces of art, and who doesn't like a short type of film, with the soundtrack being its main focus?

Adam by eve is surreal! It is also a treat for eve fans. Imagine a live concert. To that add a story, excellent animation and art design.

Thats what Adam by Eve is!

Having said that. Its not for you if you don't know the artist Eve. Or if you are far away from the anime sphere and/or don't like popular MVs like ME! ME! ME! Etc

'Eve' was popularised after the opening to jujutsu kaisen's opening but he already was an underground hit in the world of nico nico(Japanese youtube)

The story of this 50 minute concert doesnt matter as much as the expression the artist conveys with the visuals and hard hitting songs.

Only negative part is that the subtitle during the songs might feel jank as japanese doesnt translate well. But the songs are banger nonetheless.

I've been listening to Eve for about 2 years now, and I have payed a lot of attention to the details and story's of his music videos, and have researched his manga a bit. I loved how many of his songs were in the movie, and when the songs came on it would have the perfect lyrics for what was currently going on in the movie.

Another thing is that there were so much references to his MV's, Hitosume, 'Hitosume means one eyed' (from dramaturgy, literature nonsense, etc) has been one of the main focuses in this film. An example is when the song "How To Eat Life" started playing, there were many people gathered around a table, just like in the MV for "How To Eat Life"

I may just be bias for Eve, but Eve got a lot of screen time in this movie, which made me very happy, and all the songs in the show were preformed live.

At the end of the day this is really a perfect movie for anybody, Eve fan or not, the story was well thought out, the characters were pretty good, and the references had me hooked. So 10/10 movie!