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Un Mundo Sin... (English: A World Without...) is a web series from Argentina uploaded to YouTube, created by Matías Sinay and Santiago Pérez Silva (known online as "Picho Brazo"), both from Argentina, who have worked together since 2018.
The series has 8 complete seasons, located between the most popularindie animation and webseries channels of Latin America, having over 200 million combined views on YouTube, and more than a billion combined views on Facebook and TikTok. In 2022, the episode titled "Un Mundo Sin... Dolor" (A World Without... Sorrow) became one of the top ten most viewed videos in Argentina. [1][2]Thanks to this popularity, Sinay and Silva were able to produce official dubbed version with captions in English and Portugeuse, and also created a spin-off series titled Los Científicos (The Scientists).
Plot
[edit]Each episode is centered around the daily life of a parallel world, but without a certain object from our world (like pockets, maps or wheels), a certain symbol (the word "no", the letter A, or the number 2), or elements of nature (water, fire, gravity, etc), usually resulting in a utopia or dystopia. Sometimes the viewer is shown how the three scientists (Tom, Teo, and Trini) search for a solution for problems created in the parallel world, without much success or achieving true advancement. The webseries is presented in short animations that frequently use dark humour and double entendres, often making references to popular culture.
Production
[edit]Concept and Creation
[edit]The idea for the webseries was born in 2018 by the hand of director and screenwriter Matías Sinay, who was born in Córdoba, Argentina. As reported, he started thinking "what would life be like in a world without pockets" (and what would be used in place of them) and the idea of the show later arose, along with the idea of making it a science fiction comedy. While searching for someone to produce the show with, he met Santiago Pérez Silva on Instagram, whom he made his partner. After telling Silva about the idea, they worked together to create Un Mundo Sin.[1][2]
The first episode was finished and published in 2019, titled the aforementioned "Un Mundo Sin... Bolsillos" (A World Without... Pockets". The first episodes were uploaded to Instagram[1], until they made the leap to Youtube in 2021, when they created their own channel. The official channel was called "Un Mundo Sin" until June of 2022, when it was changed to Naisekai.
The name Naisekai was derived from Japanese language and is comprised of two main components:
- ない (nai): A term denoting absence, inexistence, or negation. In this context, one could interpret it as "that which does not exist" or "nonexistent".
- 世界 (sekai): Which means "world".
In conjunction, the name references the name of the series Un Mundo Sin... (のない世界, in romaji: No nai sekai).
Among the influences that Sinay mentioned he took for the series, one could see the relationship with science fiction, including Ray Bradbury, and other shows like Alejo y Valentina (which is another Argentine webseries), Rick and Morty, Futurama, Love, Death & Robots, etc.[1]
Production
[edit]Matías Sinay, who is the screenwriter, directs all of the episodes and writes the scripts, while Santiago Pérez is the director of animation, and is responsible for all production in that area. In the beginning of the show they were the only members of the production team, but the team grew as the show became more popular online. Depending on the episode, the team could grow to 12 people. The ones that are best known are:
- Production: Matías Sinay, Santiago Pérez Silva
- Direction of Animation: Santiago Pérez Silva o Luciana Muñoz
- Scripting: Matías Sinay, Augusto Sinay, Juan Quinteros, Chavo Saraintaris
- Music: Nacho Rozental, Hernán Soria
- Sound: Melisa Stasiak
As well as those in charge of storyboarding, animation, and background.
According to Pérez Silva, an episode takes approximately 20 days to complete, from writing the script to finalising the animation.
Characters
[edit]- Narrator: The presenter that starts the episode by announcing to the audience the title of the episode (Ex: "Un mundo sin... Bolsillos"). Although he is never presented directly to the audience in the episodes, he appears as a presenter in the top videos.
- The Scientists: A trio of investigators whose projects solve the absence of objects or concepts in their parallel universe. They are the most recurring characters in the show.
- Tom: He thinks too much and is usually the one who comes up with ideas to move projects forward. He has a taste for mathematics. According to the episode "Un Mundo Sin... Nombres" (A World Without... Names), he is 34 years old and his professional training is as a doctor in biotechnology.
- Trini: The only female member. She is the most adventurous and has the most common sense of the team. She usually tries to search for solutions in experiments when things go wrong.
- Teo: He has been the subject of tests in several of the team's experiments, contributing to the fact that he has died the most of the trio throughout the series. He is generally the least serious and professional of his group, as he has been seen creating very dangerous inventions and disobeying work protocols.
John and Barbara: They are a sentimental couple that appear recurrently in the episodes. They represent a form of parody of the stereotypical couple, with exaggerated romantic clichés, like passionate declarations of love.
Videogame
[edit]On the 15th of June, 2024, Naisekai announced the launch of Un Mundo Sin... Videojuegos, (A World Without... Videogames), a mobile game based on the show for IOS and Android. Developed by the Argentine company Pathfinders Studio, it is a videogame that follows the style of a visual novel where one can collect items, personalise their own character, play various minigames, and complete missions alongside the three scientists. On the same day, the episode "Un Mundo Sin... Videojuegos" was released to promote the game.
Spinoff
[edit]A spinoff of Un Mundo Sin..., titled Los Científicos, was announced on the 17th of Febuary, 2023, on the Naisekai YouTube channel. As the title suggests, the three scientists from the original show are the protagonists of this spinoff, which focuses on their experiments and inventions unrelated to their solutions for the parallel universes. After the release of a trailer in March of 2023, the first episode of the show was uploaded on the 26th of April of the same year.
Miscelaneous
[edit]- Due to the diverse themes, the episodes often make many references to films, videogames, and characters in popular culture, such as Jesus Christ, Galileo Galilei or Diego Armando Maradona, as well as many others.
- In 2021, They released the episode Un Mundo Sin... Basura in collaboration with the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.[1]
- The episode Un Mundo Sin... Memoria was made in commemoration of the AMIA bombing.[2]
- The main musical theme that is used in the show is an excerpt from the 1874 piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition, composed by Modest Músorgsky.
References
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