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>>146451 If every piece of animated entertainment needs to have a point for you to enjoy it, I saw Noiseman as a commentary on media-saturated modern youth culture -- a theme that seems to run through a lot of Koji Morimoto's works. Noiseman hypnotizes and enslaves children with his noisy abrasive music and "noise seeds". Noiseman tries to take over the world with the use of a device that seperates the "beautiful music of the soul" from the uh, ghostly fish things which in this film are the two essential components of man. Tobio (and eventually everyone) snaps out of it when he's fed the Music Fruit from the Blue Sea, remembering the happy pre-noiseman days of mellowness and pretty music that became lost to him when he started down the hollow path of Noise. It then becomes his mission to "get everyone's music back" before Noiseman steals it all and sends everyone into the Silence Tank. It's also interesting to note that no adults were turned to the side of Noiseman like the children were -- instead they played a role in snapping the children out of the Noiseman trance.
Just by reiterating the core story I hope you can see all the parallels to modern youth culture in Noiseman
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