Maboroshi

Masume is a third year students. He plays cards with his friends one day when suddenly their world changes. The local steel factory explodes and traps their town in an unending freeze. They cannot leave and are forced to live a new reality. There are sky wolves that seal the now broken sky and it keeps them safe. Masume falls for a girl in his class though she is bitter towards him and another young girl that lives in the abandoned factory becomes clear why she looks familiar. As he and friends try to make truth out of the situation they must overcome burdens and differences. In order to save those they love. This was a nice film. Lovely animation and voice cast and it's a story about growing up but has good heart.

It's a cool movie, but it just happens to be another one of those japanese movies that has a pretty good start, with a good aim on what it's about, but somewhere near the end, the metaphors and meanings stars hiting everythinf they can; it's almost like they want to make the movie to be about everything, and honestly it doenst work, not when you start doing this at the very end. It got confusing and extra explanatory; it didnt even seem real anymore.

I really liked where it was going, but this urge they felt for talking about a bunch of emotions at the end with almost no development to most of them just kinda of messed everything up. I'm just saying that, it is better to keep it simple and targetted than start adding a lot of unecessary dialogue about emotions that you'll have to explain because they weren't developed to be simply undestood by context.

I don't like symbolism, metaphores and allegories. The movie was confusing but it is very simple in a way. Growing up, changing, love, sexuality. Japan loves making such movies. Anyway it is not what I wanted to watch, I am not a teen, I thought this was some fantasy.

Synonyms: Alice and Therese's Illusion Factory, The Illusion Factory of Alice and Therese

Alice like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I should have paid more attention to the title, no wonder the movie doesn't make sense!

I watched Suzume no Tojimari a few days ago. I liked it. I heard Suzume was nominated for the Annie Awards (Animation Awards)

Pretty good movie as expected from mari okada. The visual were great and the drama and writing was really good too. The character design were clean and very well animated as aspected from Mappa and the music was very heartfelting . Overall 8.25/10. Would've gave this show higher if they explained things better. It felt like there too many things left unsaid. I also felt like they should've made the movie longer, because for me personally it felt kinda rushed. They had so many cool idea but explain only 75% of it.

The end, I hope you enjoy this review, this first time writing a movie review.

Add ons.... I also might try rewatch this movie again to try to understand it better.

Additionally, If like this movie then check out Maquia: When the Promised Flower Bloom(Mari okada best work in opinion)if you haven't already watch it.

To my surprise this was better than its current 6.3 average would suggest. The animation is well done and the first half is quite interesting, but the ending felt a bit rushed and underdeveloped. I like that they didn't go out of their way to spell out everything leaving a few mysteries unsolved, but the final buildup just wasn't paced that well causing the narrative to miss a few important opportunities to develop the plot further and charge the twists with the necessary weight.

If you like stuff like Steins;Gate, Your Name, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, I want to Eat Your Pancreas, 5cm Per Second, etc. Chances are that you'll enjoy this one too to some extent. There are a few unnecessary anime tropes, the characters are a bit flat and the story is more cliché than it should/could have been, but all in all this is a good one.