@skysayl YES. I have watched that one… too many times lol. It’s still one of my favorite, but it could have been even better. I’m blown away that top talents got together and decided to create a G/t animation, out of all possibilities.
The original plan was for the woman to actually shrink, but the setting in which the woman looks like a cockroach was added later:
https://kai-you.net/article/11800
“Originally, the story was about a woman who became small and fought enemies that appeared in the small world, such as cats, hamsters, Roomba and even cockroaches, but the relationship between the three parties (boyfriend, woman and enemies) became too complicated, so the cockroaches (enemies) and the woman were combined.”
So the whole Kafka-esque plot was put together after they couldn’t make the original SW idea work. Sad, since I would have liked to see her shrinking out of her clothes in such a nice animation style.
I don’t understand Japanese but there’s also an hour long interview available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPyzHGmQ8N8