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Tokyo Ghoul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot_(company)

A) Genre
Tokyo Ghoul is a dark fantasy manga that has been adapted into an anime. The anime contains torture, death, murder and has some bad language. It's suitable for mature audiences and hasn't got many ethical issues. With the murder, the murderer is either killed afterwards or they feel so distraught about it that they destroy themselves with the guilt.

B) Individual Animators
Character Design for the show was done by Kazuhiro Miwa who cooperated with Chūji Mikasano and other animators to see if the characters would work. The director Shūhei Morita also has a say with the designs.

C) Production Processes
Pre-production was relatively simple for the animation studio because they used most of the comics for the show meaning the show was planned out almost completely for them. During production, they followed the comics and recreated what they had seen. Towards the end of production, the anime has a lot of effects so the rate slowed down but the company took their time with it in order to get it correct.

D) Narrative and storyline
Ken Kaneki is almost killed in an accident when his date tries to kill him. Her organs were put inside him in order for him to live and the result made him a ghoul. having to get used to his dietary change from normal food to human flesh becomes a challenge and a cafe for ghouls called Anteiku. He learns to live as a ghoul and when he is attacked for being a ghoul he joins a group called Aogiri Tree who are a ghoul terrorist group led by the one-eyed ghoul. Ken Kaneki becomes a cannibal and becomes even more powerful. Towards the end of the first arc of the anime, Ken Kaneki gets involved with a 5-way fight between Aogiri Tree, Anteiku, CCG (a police-like force for monitoring and exterminating ghouls), Black Dobers (allied with Anteiku) and the Apes (also known and the Devil Apes who were also allied with Anteiku). After the fight, Kaneki finds his childhood best friend and takes him in for medical aid. He is captured by the CCG and not seen till the second arc.

During the second arc, Ken Kaneki is brainwashed and given a new identity as the leader of the half-ghoul squad run by the CCG. They overcome multiple challenges as a group and after some time Kaneki starts to remember who he was. Eventually, his memory is back completely and he starts a group called Goat who want ghouls and humans to live in harmony. Eventually, they manage to gain a large influence across all groups including CCG and they take over to help people live together. After some time, Kaneki has to use his power to vanquish the leader of the CCG (who turns out to be a ghoul) and turns into "the dragon". He is cut out of his new body and they then try and destroy the dragon. In theory, when they cut Kaneki out they would have killed it but Kaneki's date is regrown within the dragon and takes over. Kaneki kills her and everyone can live peacefully.

E)Target Audience
The target audience for the show is mature teens due to how dark and serious the anime is. The anime is continuously rated 15+ and is even banned in a few countries due to how dark it is.

F) Character/Star
Tokyo Ghoul’s protagonist is Ken Kaneki. The anime is based off a comic so the character was pre-designed for them. He goes through multiple changes in his life after becoming a half-ghoul. His hair changes from black to white and back, he goes from outcasted to belonging but also from grievous to depressed and then to happy. The powers he gains from the surgery eventually lead to him becoming the most powerful ghoul to ever exist. Ghouls can only feast on human flesh and this causes a problem for Kaneki. Within the show, Ken Kaneki deals with many problems that arise including fighting the CCG.

Morph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardman_Animations#Filmography

A) Genre
Morph is a clay stop-motion comedy which started in 1977 and is still continuing today. The character has been seen largely performing next to Tony Hart until his resignation from film and tv in 2001.

B) Individual Animators
Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Mike Booth, Gary Cureton and Dave Osmond have all worked as stop-motion animators within their career on Morph. Peter Lord and David Sproxton were the original stop-motion animators for the show from 1980 and in 1995 Mike Booth, Gary Cureton and Dave Osmond are credited for stop-motion animation.

C) Production Processes
Stop motion animation (or other known as stop-frame animation) is rather famous and is similar to what Disney used to do in their original cartoons. It involves taking an object, sticking a camera and tripod down and not moving it. Taking a picture and moving the object ever so slightly and then taking another picture. Aardman uses this with their clay models like Morph, Shaun the Sheep, Wallace and Gromit. Occasionally, their characters are shown next to real people in films and tv shows.

Here is an example of stop motion animation:
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D) Narrative and storyline
Although Morph doesn't have a long-standing timeline, each animated short tells its own story of a wide range of things. One of Morph's more famous productions was Take Hart. Take Hart had 10 series'.

E)Target Audience
The target audience is very broad but would be mostly aimed at younger children as it tells us the problems of the world that are going on in a way that younger people can understand. Morph is an easily recognisable character because of fo the change in the target audience. From what I can find, it has always been mostly focused at roughly 8-13-year-olds.

F) Character/Star
Morph is the clay animated character famous within the series and a whole generation of watchers. The series is named after Morph and is all issues people were facing / current humour of the time. For a new watcher, they wouldn't understand much of what was happening purely because of how time-specific it was.

Monsters Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar

A) Genre
Monsters Inc. is a family-friendly film made for families with younger kids. It borders between action and comedy with the way it was written and made.

B) Individual Animators
In production, every main character had its own lead animator, John Kahrs was the animator for Sulley, Andrew Gordon animated Mike, and Dave DeVan animated Boo. Kahrs found that Goodman's voice provided an exceptionally good fit with the character but because of his size, he struggled to make him not appear sluggish because normally larger characters are made slower to compensate.
C) Production Processes
The production process for Monsters Inc. didn't take as long as other Disney productions because some of the characters had been drafted already, the characters were just animated to the story. the pre-production was shorter but they took their time in production to get all the animations done correctly.

D) Narrative and storyline
Monsters Inc. is about two scarers who go around during the night time (in the human world) going from door to door in a factory scaring people. The monsters live in a parallel earth that humans cant access which they can travel through with their door technology. The screams they collect from children power the world they live in and is crucial for their survival.

One day, a child makes it into the monster world and it is up to Sully and Mike to take it back home through "their door". After being troubled many times by other monsters, they finally make it back home and continue their work at Monsters Inc. They revolutionise their world by using laughter to power their cities after accidentally finding out that it is 4x as powerful as screams. at the end of the film the monsters are making children laugh, not cry.

E)Target Audience
The target audience is definitely children (somewhere between 3-9 years old) but not exclusively. Parents have also shown their love for the franchise many a time and the reception for the two films was huge for when the two films came out. Monsters University (the second film) is actually more relevant to the people who watched the first film when they were younger so is more likely to be 14-19 years old (although it is still enjoyable for children).

F) Character/Star
 James P. Sullivan (a.k.a "Sully") is the main protagonist of the two films Monsters Inc. and Monsters University. He was a renowned scarer at Monsters, Inc., where he works alongside his partner and best friend Mike Wazowski. He is a kind person but conservative and seems rather insecure about himself.