Anime · OVA · 1985

Angel’s Egg

天使のたまご

A desolate world full of shadows. A little girl who collects water in jars and guards a large egg she carries everywhere. Then a mysterious man arrives, and the two of them talk about the world around them. That is the whole engine. Everything else the film does, it does through image, pace and silence.

Oshii’s near-wordless fable is the argument that anime can withhold plot entirely and still be legible as grief, faith and doubt — the film that made ‘atmosphere as narrative’ a viable mode decades before slow cinema became a streaming buzzword.

01  —  The record

The record

Format
OVA
Status
Completed
Episodes
1 · about 71 min each
Broadcast
December 15, 1985
Studio
Studio DEEN
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Psychological
Season
Fall 1985
03  —  Elsewhere

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04  —  Who made it

Characters and credits

Characters

  • ShounenMainVoice (JP): Jinpachi Nezu
  • ShoujoMainVoice (JP): Mako Hyoudou

Production

  • Character Design Yoshitaka Amano
  • Original Plan Yoshitaka Amano
  • Art Direction Yoshitaka Amano
  • Key Animation Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
  • Script Mamoru Oshii
  • Director Mamoru Oshii
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