It's too difficult... it's too difficult to review this movie. I'm not sure what I should say and what I shouldn't.
Our main character is Asuna, a young elementary school girl. She lost her father at an early age, and her mother works long shifts at a hospital. So, she grew up... kind of on her own??
She created secret places to spend her leisure time. Her hobby is listening to mysterious music coming from a cat's-whisker receiver.
One day, she suddenly gets attacked by a weird creature and is saved by a strange boy. The boy, Shun, is truly peculiar because after washing Asuna's brain, he immediately commits suicide.
On the other hand, substitute teacher Mr. Morisaki captures Asuna's attention by delivering a lecture about Agartha, the land of the dead.
In Agartha, there exists a Gate of Life and Death that can bring people's souls back from the dead.
Now, Asuna is desperate (in my opinion) to meet Shun again, and on the other hand, Morisaki wants his wife back at any cost.
Agartha is a completely different universe. Regular people from the human world can't enter there. But somehow, they (Asuna, Morisaki, and Spoiler!) were able to get in.
Yes... you've got it, the main part of the adventure has just begun!
"I don't dare to judge Makoto's work. The storyline is super unique, it's literally beyond my imagination. The soundtracks are perfect and the artworks are mind-blowing as always.
Honestly, I feel bored at some point in the movie (maybe I didn't understand some parts of it. I should watch it again closely). I think some scenes were directly inspired by 'Princess Mononoke'; very few though. But at the end of the day, I enjoyed it."
Not a must-watch movie, but it's Makoto Shinkai you know... You will surely miss something special if you avoid it.
Our main character is Asuna, a young elementary school girl. She lost her father at an early age, and her mother works long shifts at a hospital. So, she grew up... kind of on her own??
She created secret places to spend her leisure time. Her hobby is listening to mysterious music coming from a cat's-whisker receiver.
One day, she suddenly gets attacked by a weird creature and is saved by a strange boy. The boy, Shun, is truly peculiar because after washing Asuna's brain, he immediately commits suicide.
On the other hand, substitute teacher Mr. Morisaki captures Asuna's attention by delivering a lecture about Agartha, the land of the dead.
In Agartha, there exists a Gate of Life and Death that can bring people's souls back from the dead.
Now, Asuna is desperate (in my opinion) to meet Shun again, and on the other hand, Morisaki wants his wife back at any cost.
Agartha is a completely different universe. Regular people from the human world can't enter there. But somehow, they (Asuna, Morisaki, and Spoiler!) were able to get in.
Yes... you've got it, the main part of the adventure has just begun!
"I don't dare to judge Makoto's work. The storyline is super unique, it's literally beyond my imagination. The soundtracks are perfect and the artworks are mind-blowing as always.
Honestly, I feel bored at some point in the movie (maybe I didn't understand some parts of it. I should watch it again closely). I think some scenes were directly inspired by 'Princess Mononoke'; very few though. But at the end of the day, I enjoyed it."
Not a must-watch movie, but it's Makoto Shinkai you know... You will surely miss something special if you avoid it.