Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and

commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, Senator Taylor and writer Jimmy Hill, and he and I are recording

this week's show on Saturday, January 14th, 2022, which is the day after Bell has begun its

seven-day run of theaters. Jiki says it's kind of pulled off something should have

a miracle here that this Mamoru Hosada, film is enough, thousand over a thousand theaters

in North America, and even on iMac screens. Now Drew, you've talked about Bell a couple times

on the show at this point. You really enjoyed it. In fact, you've actually watched it a couple

times now, right? Yeah, and I got to actually speak with Memoros on a few weeks ago, which was

really exciting, and it's for the, we're doing a big animation issue of the rap magazine, so I got

to talk to him, and it was, it was wonderful. How would you describe this one? I mean,

we've tried on the show produce. I mean, Beauty and the Beast meets the internet, only Bells,

like a Kardashian size social influencer, except in real life, she's like a 17-year-old high school

girl who lives in a remote village with her dad, right? Well, she, she's actually like a pop star.

Like, she is a social influencer, but she also does these amazing concerts where she kind of

brings out all the characters from this, you know, it's kind of a metaverse, if we're going to use

that super obnoxious term. There we go. Yeah, so, you know, everybody comes and watches her sing,

and she's amazing, but obviously, in real life, she's very shy. Her mother died at a very young

age in a tragic accident, and she's just kind of awkwardly fumbling through life, and then in this,

there is a Beast character that comes in that's known as the dragon, and so she's trying to figure

out who he is in real life, and it's just wonderful. And it has maybe my favorite piece of animation

that I saw last year, which, Jim, when you see it, you will know it. I will say that. Okay, so,

I've now got six days. So, what should I do here? Should I go with the, because I have options,

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