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Pokémon Concierge Review: This Stop-Motion Miniseries Brings All Coziness Needed For Holiday Season(Photo Credit –IMDb)

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Cast: Rena Nonen, Fairouz Ai, Okuno Eita, and Takemura Yoshiko

Creator: The Pokémon Company

Director: Ogawa Iku

Streaming On: Netflix

Language: Japanese (with subtitles)

Runtime: 4 Episodes, Around 15 minutes each.

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The Pokémon franchise is the biggest franchise ever created, and to achieve that status, it means to expand outside your core audience, as what began as an RPG video game for the Game Boy console became an anime series, a card game, and tons of other merchandise. Pokémon Concierge is just the latest of those products, being a stop-motion animated miniseries for Netflix. The miniseries brings everything you love out of Pokémon and gives it a fresh coat of paint.

Pokémon is back like never before in the latest collaboration between Netflix and The Pokémon Company, Pokémon Concierge.

Iku Ogawa directs Pokémon Concierge, which revolves around the story of a concierge staff named Haru (Karen Fukuhara/Rena Nōnen) as she unpacks a journey of self-discovery alongside Pokémon.

The series made its premiere on Netflix on December 28.

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Netflix's upcoming stop-motion series Pokémon Concierge has unveiled its first full-length trailer along with a release date.

In contrast to the franchise's mainline anime series, Pokémon Concierge is a laid-back slice-of-life tale about a young woman who takes up a position at a Pokémon resort. Featured on Netflix's Anime YouTube Channel, the series' new trailer introduces Haru, a fledgling concierge whose primary job is to figure out what will make her clients happy and content during their stay. As Haru learns how to communicate with Pokémon, she also learns more about herself and where she belongs in the world. The series will become available on Netflix starting Dec. 28.

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Dwarf Studios, the company behind Netflix's previous stop-motion hit Rilakkuma and Kaoru, is producing Pokémon Concierge. The latter series' core production team includes several newcomers to the Pokémon franchise. Iku Ogawa, who...

A new poster and teaser for the Netflix and Pokémon collaboration, Pokémon Concierge, takes fans behind the scenes for the upcoming anime.

Via Collider, fans followed the Japanese voice actor Rena Nōnen, or Non, as she got a close look at her and Pokémon Concierge's bubbly new lead character, Haru. Director of Pokémon Concierge, Iku Ogawa, led a tour of the animation studio as they exchanged their personal motivations for the anime. Ogawa stated his hopes that Pokémon Concierge "can be seen by a global audience" as Pokémon Concierge marks Netflix and The Pokémon Company's first collaboration.

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Pokémon Concierge will use stop-motion animation, rather than the sakuga style that Western anime fans are often used to. Used by popular directors such as Guillermo Del Toro in Pinocchio, Pokémon Concierge's teaser showcases dozens of objects and detachable facial expressions,...

Out of fear, out of the unknown, arises the irrational. As the paranoia of uncertainty runs amok, the responses trigged by individuals, whole communities, and even whole civilizations to clamber on to some sense of normality arouse our own perplexions; to have all we know as societies rejected and reduced to footnotes of “simpler times” produces nothing but extreme reverberations from all walks of life. When the world shutdown amidst Covid-19’s reckless rampage, the immediacy of the ordeal left its irreparable stain on the lives of all those it touched, not to mention all the lives it has thus claimed. Life became fleeting, time stood still, and the endless vacuum that sucked us all in spiraled out of control. It is the search for a new purpose that preoccupies Non’s (Rena Nounen) sophomore feature “Ribbon”, not so much as an existential yearning but as a means to stave...

Out of fear, out of the unknown, arises the irrational. As the paranoia of uncertainty runs amok, the responses trigged by individuals, whole communities, and even whole civilizations to clamber on to some sense of normality arouse our own perplexions; to have all we know as societies rejected and reduced to footnotes of “simpler times” produces nothing but extreme reverberations from all walks of life. When the world shutdown amidst Covid-19’s reckless rampage, the immediacy of the ordeal left its irreparable stain on the lives of all those it touched, not to mention all the lives it has thus claimed. Life became fleeting, time stood still, and the endless vacuum that sucked us all in spiraled out of control. It is the search for a new purpose that preoccupies Non’s (Rena Nounen) sophomore feature “Ribbon”, not so much as an existential yearning but as a means to stave...

Away from Hollywood’s stifling commercial limits, Fumiyo Kouno’s manga about a young bride in wartime Japan has no illusions regarding the human price of war. Young Suzu takes in a new family, endures the hardships of a militarized country and wartime privations, but nobody is ready for what’s coming. Sunao Katabuchi’s historical drama makes stunning use of animation.

In this Corner of the World

Blu-ray + DVD

Shout! Factory

2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 128 min. / Kono sekai no katasumi ni / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 22.97

Japanese Voices: Non, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Megumi Han, Natsuki Inaba, Nanase Iwai; English Voices: Laura Post, Kira Buckland, Barbara Goodson, Todd Haberkorn, Jason Palmer.

Character design: Hidenori Matsubara

Original Music: Kotringo

Written by Sunao Katabuchi, Chie Uratani, from the manga by Fumiyo Kouno

Produced by Taro Maki, Masao Maruyama

Directed by Sunao Katabuchi

American feature films are now a commercial desert dominated by expensive blockbusters, with a...

Based on the award-winning manga by Fumiyo Kouno, In This Corner of the World, bolstered by emotionally resonant storytelling and exquisite hand-drawn animation, is an empowering coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of WWII and captures the resilience and triumph of the human spirit.

The award-winning story of In This Corner of the World follows a young lady named Suzu Urano, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima to live with her husband’s family. Suzu’s life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II. Her perseverance and courage underpin this heart-warming and inspirational tale of the everyday challenges faced by the Japanese in the midst of a violent, war-torn country. This beautiful yet poignant tale shows that even in the face of adversity and loss, people can come together and rebuild their lives.

In This Corner of the World in cinemas (NY,...

Every year, on the evening of August 6th, the people of Hiroshima gather along the banks of the Ota River and light more than 10,000 paper lanterns as the final part of a deeply moving peace ceremony. The memorial event caps off a day of reflection that includes film screenings, musical performances, and a wide variety of different speeches. Hibakusha — survivors of the nuclear blasts — gather around the Atomic Bomb Dome, many of them joined by their children and grandchildren. One particularly animated man performs a parable about the horrors visited upon his hometown, while a British ex-pat translates his story into English for the foreigners in attendance. The atmosphere is solemn, but not somber. There’s good food. Even the tourists start to loosen up.

However, perhaps the most striking thing about how Hiroshima chooses to commemorate its defining tragedy is the way in which the city focuses on the...

This affecting story of domestic life is beautifully realised with a feathery, watercolour palette of pale colours and fuzzy horizons

This slow-blooming but affecting, delicately drawn animated work tells the story of young Suzu (voiced as an adult by Rena Nounen), a sparky but relatively normal young woman who grows up on the outskirts of Hiroshima just before and during the second world war.

No doubt the mere mention of Hiroshima will spoil exactly where it’s all heading, but, before the bomb drops, director Sunao Katabuchi unfurls an engaging portrait of domestic life in pre- and wartime Japan as Suzu, who loves to draw, is married off to a guy she barely knows and comes to live in a strange new community.

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