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No. 81653
Translated the first page. I'll do this one page at a time, whenever I have time for it.
This isn't a very literal translation, I care more about getting the meaning across in English. Except at one point near the end where I can only sort of understand what it's saying, I'll talk about that in a bit more detail afterwards.
>It fascinates the viewer with it's direction! TV anime "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" OP Movie
>Since October 2012, the television anime to watch closely has been "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure". Part one, "Phantom Blood", continued broadcasting until December, and right now part two, "Battle Tendency", is currently reaching its climax. The way of creating the image of this epic, which has been drawn for more than twenty-five years...we will introduce for you the ones in charge of this challenge of this opening movie, Kamikaze Movies.
>The easy-way opening movie born from the passionate mind of a fan of the original work
>In 1987, Araki Hirohiko began publishing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Or, Jojo) in Weekly Shonen Jump. Although in 2005 it moved to Ultra Jump, it has continued publication for a long time, up until today, and has been a popular manga. There are more than a hundred separate volumes of the series, and in total at least 800 million copies have been printed, making it a super hit, and before now there have naturally been various forays into other mediums. And in 2012, it finally became a TV anime.
>The ones in charge of planning and production for this work's opening movie (or, OP) are Kamikaze Movies. Suisaki Kyohei (Pictured left) is employed as the first part's OP's director, and when talks first began, before they even finished saying "Jojo" he immediately responded with "I'll do it!". Suisaki personally loves Jojo's, and had previously made many works incorporating a manga flavor, like this OP. Concerning this first TV anime job, he said: "Previously, because I only wanted to do Jojo's, I immediately replied without hearing the content of the work or when the deadline would be. We could get Jojo's."
>This OP bore the important role of reproducing the appearance of the original work. Jojo carries a long history of twenty-five years of serialization, and so from students to adults there are an extensive range of fans, and so when converting it for TV, they must start with a concept proposal. You can reproduce the original look created by Araki, and you can freely make use of the work's fun and charm, and yet there is no one level on which everyone can enjoy it. That is to say, "easy-way animation" is what is wanted. So, without using any difficult techniques or doing special things, by obsessing over the direction, the appearance of the atmosphere of the scenes of the original work is changed, and between techniques and ideas they created an OP that can be described as "the kamikaze easy way", or "the animation easy way".
>From here on out, we will look behind the scenes at how Kamikaze Movies created an OP which mesmerizes fans of the original work and fans of the anime alike.
So yeah that second-last paragraph turns into a mess halfway through. I think what it's saying is that the OP has to appeal to such a broad range of tastes that they need to finely adjust the atmosphere until it's just right, which means they can't use a lot of fancy, timeconsuming/expensive techniques because they'll have to do a lot of iteration. So the techniques they use have to be straightforward and easy.
Also the guy's name is a total guess on my part. It just gives it in kanji and I slapped together a plausible-seeming reading from them but it could be something totally different.
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