There’s mention of a dragon pact with humans to not be part of war conflicts but that’s not fully talked about until the last 15 mins of episode 2 and even then, it’s at best just glossed over. This ambiguous world building doesn’t stop there. It either takes place during either world war one or modern-day, it honestly is not clearly established as each episode began with the dragon either blowing up a bunch of navy boats in episode 1 or swallowing a typhoon beside a commercial airplane in episode 2 and then coupling that with the soldiers wielding bayonet guns and firing old fashion cannons. For example, the time at which the story takes place in is actually confusing to figure out. What I mean by partial is that there are ideas of what the narrative wants to get across but nothing is really solid. The rest of the time we’re watching the partially developed world building. The contextual build up to this Bell and Nonoko dynamic was mostly done via montage in the first episode which comes across disingenuous as character development.
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If we’re looking at the full 80-minute running time over the two episodes, it takes 30 minutes for Bell and Nonoko to truly become key aspects to the plot. While all these plot threads do have very interesting implications behind them, I’m disappointed by the almost halfhearted execution they take on in the actual narrative. Oh, and at the same time a World War is happening, there’s a commando unit out to kill the dragon or steal its teeth and one of the dragon dentists goes rogue to cheat death.
So, with that knowledge, the Dragon Dentists work to make Bell one of them and Bell learns the tireless work and the unflinching resolve it takes to be a dragon dentist. His resurrection foretells a bad omen that legend says occurs before a major disaster.
One day, Nonoko discovers that out of the dragon’s tooth a young soldier named Bell, who had been killed by his own men, has been revived. Based on the 8-minute short ONA (Original Net Short) that was featured in Hideaki Anno’s Animator Expo, The Dragon Dentist is the story of Nonoko a young, but skilled dragon dentist who follows her duties of cleaning the tooth decaying cavity bacteria out of the mouth of the country side dragons she and the other dragon dentists live on. Not exactly the terms you would think would blend together in a narrative and… that’s partially still true. Now in The Dragon Dentist that mentality has been woven with themes of accepting one’s own inevitable death. Someone should’ve called the Cavity Creeps on the producers.īrushing one’s teeth is highly important to keep healthy.
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