"Kagemono: The Shadow Folk" - Review

"Kagemono: The Shadow Folk" is a Disney animated short about a hungry fox looking for a meal. While it is searching , it runs into a fearful foe, and flees. After it runs away, the fox finds what looks like food, but is a trap! The "food" is a shadow creature that eats the fox's own shadow. Eventually, the fox's shadow is all gone and the fox has turned into a ghost. However, the foe from before comes back and eats the shadow creature, which returns the fox's shadow, and makes the fox alive again. It turns out that the "foe" just wanted to be friends. The fox and its new friend walk away into the forest together, no longer having misunderstandings of each other.

The animation is very well done and fluid. They frequently use squash and stretch to make their animations seem more lively.

The story was told through expression and actions rather than words. The animators did this very well, and made sure that everything was very lively.

The creators did a very good job at telling a somewhat dark story through cute characters. However, the world and backgrounds seemed very bleak, and could use more color.

Overall, I feel like the story was very well told, and that their animations were fun to watch. It wasn't boring in any way.