Takahide Hori’s one-man masterpiece-in-the-making is fun, sweet, and terrifying. In the distant future, after losing a war to the synthetic life forms they created, humans who’ve lost the ability to reproduce in a viral pandemic launch a last-ditch effort to correct the course of their species. Parton – a lonely prole who lives a vicarious, virtual existence – enlists in the effort to find a cure from the denizens of the depths… before catching a missile on the way down, losing his body and memory in the process. Adrift with a mission to secure humanity’s future, Parton finds himself instead audience to the weird, rich lives of the creatures below the surface.

Watch JUNK HEAD (2017) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCCWHhH6R4

“Move It, Take a Shot, Easy: The DIY Magic of Takehide Hori’s Junk Head” by Luke Mosher for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/11/24/move-it-take-a-shot-easy-the-diy-magic-of-takehide-horis-junk-head/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music from the JUNK HEAD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 255: JUNK HEAD (2017)

1:46 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

3:08 - Takahide Hori, MAD GOD (2022), and worldbuilding

21:43 - Disney, Dreamworks, Laika, Ghibli, and JUNK HEAD on the animation landscape

35:55 - Toyetic characters in a terrifying world

46:08 - Ideas tackled vs. what’s shown

57:31 - Alexander, Francis, Julian, and the ending

1:05:35 - Nico

1:10:06 - Other Loves We’ve Tried: 2017

1:10:20 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:42 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

1:17:33 - Cody’s Noteys: Sci-love (2017 sci-fi movie trivia)