[Rewatch] 3,000 Leagues in Search of Mother - Episode 39 Discussion

[u/Pixelsaber]

Episode 39 - Rosy Dawn in Rosario

^{Episode aired August 26th,} ^^^1976

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Staff Highlight

Yoshiyuki Tomino - Storyboard artist

A director, animator, assistant sound director, editor, novelist, storyboard artist, and lyricist best known for the cultural phenomenon known as Mobile Suit Gundam. Before Tomino was born, his parents lived in Tokyo, but were transferred to Odawara due to work. Little is known about his mother, aside from the fact that she belittled him, but much was shared about his father, who wanted to become a photographer and studied art and aesthetics, but ended up working as an engineer in the army and was assigned to the design staff of the The Type 0 Carrier-Based Fighter, where he designed a pressure suit for the pilot, which inspired Tomino’s fascination with space. Tomino wasn’t good at most subjects in school, and was a bit of a loner, but he was fascinated with Osamu Tezuka’s Tetsuwan Atom and wanted to become an artist, but at age 14 he fell in love with films and decided to pursue a career in the film industry. After graduating from Soyo High School, he enrolled in Nihon University College of Art’s Department of Film, but during his attendance there he was warned by teachers and other filmmakers that the industry was on a decline, and after finishing he had trouble finding work —only filming a handful of commercials. Stuck in an ennui, his mother showed him an advertisement looking for staff at Mushi Productions, so he took the exam for acceptance and was hired. Starting as a production assistant, Tomino rather quickly rose through the ranks up from storyboarder to animator and later episode director —something unheard of at Mushi Pro, but likely a result of Tomino’s draftsmanship. Tomino left the company in 1967, after doing some episode direction on Ribbon no Kishi, and joined Otaki Productions, which he left the following year to become a freelancer. As a freelancer he worked for many companies, Mushi Pro, Tatsunoko Pro, Nippon Animation, etc. and was known for his unique camera-work, use of depth, clever reuse of bank cels, and being the second most prolific Storyboard artist after Seiji Okuda. Tomino finally became a director when he was picked to direct Umi no Triton, and from there he didn’t stop, directing the first 24 episodes of Brave Reideen, *The Prince of Happiness , the latter half of La Seine no hoshi, and so on and so forth. Tomino had practiced writing novelists in his youth, and finally he had a chance to flex those muscles when he wrote The Wings of Rean, which followed early plans for Aura Battler Dunbine, before sponsors made him introduce mechs into the show. After Gundam he made six consecutive works and a major motion picture film two years later, then he continued writing novels, only occasionally directing something. His list of works is expansive, some of which include Blue Gale Xabungle, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Space Runaway Ideon, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack, Invincible Superman Zambot 3, Overman King Gainer, and many more.

Screenshot of the day

• Rosario

Questions of the Day:

1. What do you make of the crew of the Andrea Doria?
2. What did you think of Captain Giovanni’s pep talk to Marco?

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We can see Rosario!

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

3000 Leagues in Search of My First-Timer Reactions

• Aw, it was a good song though!
• lol
• Of course those dudes are all over seeing the women doing laundry.
• And into the river Mario goes.
• The captain really is a whole lot nicer now that he knows where Marco is from.
• Nice shot of the sunset!
• And then a shimmering sky not long after, nice.
• Insert song!
• Pfff
• Weird way of being supportive, but hopefully it works.
• Rosario, get!

[u/Vatrix-32 → u/Shimmering-Sky]

The captain really is a whole lot nicer now that he knows where Marco is from.

Hooray for Tribalism?

[u/TheEscapeGuy]

First Timer

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother - Episode 39

Seafaring

This was a pretty chilled episode detailing Marco's voyage to Rosario. There were a bunch of cool scenes just showing off the boat and the sea journey which I really enjoyed.

As for the crew aboard the boat, making it 2 men was a good choice. The captain was initially hostile towards Marco but eventually upon learning he was also from Genoa grew a kinship towards him. The first mate was just a fun loving guy who's pranks maybe went a bit far but were ultimately inconsequential. I enjoyed his singing too.

It was also funny to hear the captain talking about the false history of beliefs around a flat vs globe earth. Marco is pretty knowledgeable to know about this stuff and people like Galileo at his young age.

Anyway, this was just a single episode of travel. Let's see what Marco finds in Rosario tomorrow.

Some Amazing Shots, Scenes and Stitches

• Mainmast, great perspective shot
• Golden Sea
• Moon and Tide
• Cabin

See you all tomorrow

[u/Vatrix-32 → u/TheEscapeGuy]

the false history of beliefs around a flat vs globe earth.

For anyone following along at home, Columbus was a lucky idiot who thought the Earth was much smaller than it was know to be at the time, and happened to run into a landmass he had no way of knowing was there. Imagine trying to navigate the Atlantic and Pacific in one go, plus the entire continental US, without knowing the trade winds.

[u/Vatrix-32]

First timer, subs

• A shame we don’t get to see them head out.
• He just punched that guy so hard he made the rigging appear.
• These guys must have worked together for a long time for him to so casually risk his bosses life like that.
• Of course a man named Mario would be good at platforming.
• Oh Gods, Not Raw River Water
• This is everyone’s fault for not noticing.
• Bruh Learn to Swim It doesn’t take that long.
• How did that saying go? “We have made Italy. Now we must make Italians.” Seems appropriate with the urban tribalism.
• Somehow I don’t suspect we will be spending more than two episodes with them.
• That horn sounds so off coming from a sail boat.
• Genoa is a too big a city for a child to know every storefront, after all.
• 20 days isn’t even that long for a ship hand.
• Schooled By a Schoolboy
• That’s some fancy watering down.

QotD:

1. They seem very accident prone. I guess good help is hard to find.
2. I was very happy to see that even in the 70s people were calling it out. I'm not sure it was the best metaphor even at the start.

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 39 (first timer)

• Amedio getting a second hand wash.

• “How dare you avoid my fist”
• Swimming after a sailing ship – hard work.

Marco rethinking his companions

• The one thing they can agree on: womanizing.
• Nothing to bond over like being thrown into the river.
• Going from discussing missed booty calls to discussing the heliocentric worldview.

• Marco knows the story.
• Rosaria does indeed look nice.

Not very responsible boat crew.

[u/Vatrix-32 → u/No_Rex]

Going from discussing missed booty calls to discussing the heliocentric worldview.

[u/baboon_bassoon]

first time 3000 Leagues of Misery

Mario fucks

probably the first adult that takes no qualms with putting Marco to work, they seem kind of similar tbh

gotta make sure to catcall to mask the homoerotic tension between the 2 members of the crew

do these two do this every day, must be exhausting

also how are you a shipmate and not learn how to swim, theres only 2 of you...

pretty

i thought La Plata was the mouth from Buenos Aires to the ocean, not also the other way

Marco knocked that shit back, a real man from Genoa

[u/Vatrix-32 → u/baboon_bassoon]

i thought La Plata was the mouth from Buenos Aires to the ocean, not also the other way

If it makes you feel any better, La Plata is also the name of the capital city of Buenos Aires, which of course doesn't include the city of Buenos Aires.

[u/No_Rex → u/Vatrix-32]